Merck investerar över 70 miljarder dollar i USA

Merck & Co följer flera andra globala läkemedelsjättar och pumpar in hundratals miljarder kronor i nya produktionsanläggningar i USA.

Heidi Stensmyren is eager for new challenges in the biotech industry

Heidi Stensmyren has served as President of the Swedish Medical Association, held a managerial position at Karolinska University Hospital and is now Medical Dir...

Investment CEO: “The Nordics are outstanding in creating successful medtech companies”

Since the beginning of last month, Susanna Francke Rodau has been a partner and the new CEO of Segulah Medical Acceleration, which invests in medical technology...

ZEISS at EMO Hannover 2025

Experience some of the most exciting highlights from our ZEISS product portfolio.

Raised millions to develop a treatment for ´butterfly children´

Fragile as a butterfly’s wing – that’s how people living with Epidermolysis Bullosa are usually described. The Lund-based company Xinnate recently raised SEK 100 million in a new...

Medivir i nytt avtal om cancerläkemedel i gelform

Svenska Medivir har ingått ett licenssamarbete med kanadensiska Biossil för fortsatt utveckling av Remetinostat, ett gelbaserat läkemedel som utvecklats för beh...

Phase III win for Hansa Biopharma: “We Are Thrilled”

Swedish biotech Hansa Biopharma’s transplant drug imlifidase has met the primary efficacy endpoint in a registration-enabling Phase III study in the United States.

Anna Törner: ”If I fall seriously ill, I’ll move to Finland”

”It is both undignified and undemocratic that cancer patients must travel to Finland to uphold a façade of fairness that does not truly exist”, Anna Törner writes in a column.

Kompauto Nordic AB

Her company is developing a new tablet form obesity drug

Obesity and diabetes are the primary targets of a new tablet treatment under development by Malmö-based Pila Pharma. The company’s ambition is to take on the bi...

LINK Medical Research

Norway rejects national life science strategy – sees no need

The Norwegian Arbeiderpartiet rejects a proposal that Norway should develop its own life science strategy.

Marie Gårdmark: ”Interchangeable biological medicines – soon in a pharmacy near you?”

”Generic competition is an effective way to push down drug prices, but it has not worked equally well for biosimilars. Biosimilars require more time to gain mar...

Astra Zeneca tecknar AI-samarbete värt miljarder

Astra Zeneca och kinesiska CSPC Pharmaceuticals har inlett ett AI-drivet forskningsavtal värt flera miljarder dollar.

Johan Pehrson takes over the responsibility for research policy in Sweden

The Liberals' party leader Johan Pehrson takes over the assignment as Minister for Education. This was announced by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) on Tuesday last week.

Kraftig viktnedgång i nya Novo Nordisk-studier

Två aktuella läkemedelsstudier från Novo Nordisk visar betydande viktminskning hos personer med fetma utan diabetes. Wegovy och det nya läkemedlet amycretin vis...

KI’s freezer fiasco investigated: A chain of failures

A chain of combined technical and organisational shortcomings caused the freezer breakdown at the Karolinska Institute during the Christmas holidays, destroying...

A vaccine the world is waiting for: “It can change the lives of many”

A Solna laboratory is developing a vaccine that could save the lives of countless children in low- and middle-income countries. “Working on something that can m...

New ATMP center inaugurated: “In the future, we will see cell and gene therapies in all clinics”

Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital’s new ATMP center was inaugurated in Flemingsberg, south of Stockholm. “The ATMP Center is not just a p...

Björn Ursing: Physicians new role in AI driven healthcare

”AI could be the key we need for tomorrow’s healthcare, but it is not a stand-alone tool”, writes Björn Ursing in a column about how the role for physicians cha...

ZEISS presents the "Quality Innovation Days"

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Clinigen Clinical Supplies Management GmbH

Beta-blockers are often given unnecessarily, a study finds – “This will affect future practice”

Patients who have suffered a minor heart attack do not benefit from beta-blockers, according to a major new study that may change guidelines for cardiac care.

Microscopy in Urinalysis: Observe Urine, Detect Abnormalities

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