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How SweTrial aims to bring more clinical trials to Sweden
Sweden has lost ground in clinical trials. SweTrial now aims to reverse the trend, but both the Swedish Medical Products Agency and the pharmaceutical industry ...
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Icelandic pharmaceutical company Alvotech to list on Nasdaq Stockholm
One of Iceland's largest companies, the pharmaceutical firm Alvotech, has announced its intention to list on Nasdaq Stockholm.
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The top five most expensive drugs in 2025
New advanced therapeutic medicines are reaching the market, but their price tags remain exceptionally high. This year’s ranking of the most expensive drugs in t...
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Many discontinue obesity medication – new study highlights the reasons
A new study maps out the most common reasons why patients choose to stop taking obesity medication prematurely. “Obesity medication discontinuation reverses hea...
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Danish engineer wants to modernize the Nordic region’s biobanks
Biological samples are destroyed, lost and affected by temperature fluctuations more often than many people realize, according to German-Danish engineer Hans-Ch...
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“Ozempic babies” – myth or reality?
Have weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic led to a rise in unplanned pregnancies? Life Science Sweden takes a closer look.
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The race between new alzheimer’s drugs Kisunla and Leqembi heats up
Kisunla or Leqembi? The rivalry between Eli Lilly and Bioarctic is intensifying. Where one drug gains approval, the other falls behind. Here's a look at the mar...
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“If we can’t import it, we want to make it ourselves”
In an unassuming industrial estate in Häggvik, north of Stockholm, outpatient pharmacy Atrimus RX runs its operations. Here, founder Nicky Nadem combines a glob...
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Anna Törner: ”Drug prices – an important driver of innovation”
We live under the illusion that no price is too high when it comes to health, but that simply isn’t true, writes Anna Törner.
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Lost in the recruitment process? How hiring really works today
As recruitment becomes increasingly automated, candidates are expected to adapt to both human and algorithmic decision-making. Career coach Tina Persson outline...
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Gustav Ceder: ”Hälsodata är Sveriges nya guld”
”Det här kommer att vara guld för Sverige.” Så sa socialminister Jakob Forssmed när jag stötte på honom på en solvarm bakgata i Visby, mellan kullerstenar och n...
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Lilly recruits top Swedish researcher in Alzheimer´s
One of Sweden's leading Alzheimer's researchers, Oskar Hansson, has been recruited by pharma giant Eli Lilly and will be moving to the USA.
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A healthy society requires more than a new pill
Sarah Lidé on how medicines are essential – but a sustainable approach to healthy societies also depends on prevention and behavioural change
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Marie Gårdmark: “What to expect from Trump’s second term?”
One may complain about the complex multinational system in EU, but it gives us some predictability that cannot be easily overturned by different member states p...
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Björn Arvidsson: ”As uncertainty grows, clarity becomes a strength”
Sweden has all the prerequisites to be a strong life science nation. But in a time of geopolitical tension, shorter value chains and growing demands for resilie...
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More than 150 jobs cut as Merck scales back vaccin production
Merck & Co, known as MSD in Europe, is hitting the brakes following a sharp decline in demand for its HPV vaccine Gardasil. Production at its facility in Durham...
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Thermo Fisher’s lab in Gothenburg opens
Thermo Fisher’s clinical research business, PPD, is opening its first bioanalytical laboratory in Europe. The company chose Gothenburg for the new facility, whi...
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An organ seldom in the spotlight – but utterly vital
The kidneys consist of more than 40 types of cells and have more functions in the body than most people know. Julie Williams leads AstraZeneca’s work in preclin...
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“The US matters most – even in times of turbulence”
Tariffs, geopolitical uncertainty and rapidly changing trade conditions mean that Swedish life science companies need more routes into global markets – and fast...
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Fourteen US-based top researchers recruited to Sweden
Sweden has set its sights on America’s top scholars – and it seems to work. By the end of 2025, fourteen leading U.S.-based researchers had already been won ove...
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GSK eyes blockbuster potential – plans five new trials
GSK sees blockbuster potential in its experimental drug candidate Mo-rez. Early trial results suggest the treatment may shrink tumours in patients with advanced...
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National cord blood bank resumes collection
The collection of umbilical cord blood is now resuming during planned caesarean sections at Östra Hospital in Gothenburg. The blood remaining in the placenta an...
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International medical graduates leave Sweden in high numbers
Three years after completing their studies, 46 percent of international doctoral students who graduated in the medical field had left the country. This is shown...
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