Sweden - Biotech, Pharma and Life Science Channel
The Scandinavian country of Sweden is home to a thriving biotechnology industry, one of the top 5 in Europe. Europe has become a global center for the industry, helped by €2 billion worth of funds from the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations and the European Commission. Sweden is still standing out, thanks to excellent academic institutions such as the Karolinska Institute and Uppsala University, and many high-quality global companies.
In addition to the big MNC, the south of the country hosts many start-up companies in this field. Further good news for new companies is the BIO-X program, which provides funding, project management, IT support and expert advice in this area for new start-ups.
Uppsala is surrounding by excellent biotech companies. Abbot, Activis, Novo Nordisk, Siemens HealthCare, Semcon Medical Life Science and Biogen Idec are just a handful of the global reaching companies which operate in Sweden.
Source; Adapted from Fierce BioTech
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Ossur Hf : Össur acquires TeamOlmed in Sweden
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Capio AB: Capio publishes Annual Review 2012
Capio, one of Sweden's and Europe's leading healthcare companies, publishes its Annual Review for 2012. Capio Annual Review 2012 presents Capio’s views and experiences...
Uppsala, Sweden, May 13, 2013 / B3C newswire / - CEM Corporation, a competitor of Biotage (STO: BIOT), recently published a press release claiming to have won a “patent dispute” with Biot...
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CellaVision has signed an agreement with Equalis, the Swedish provider of external quality assessment for clinical laboratory tests. Equalis has chosen to invest in CellaVision's new proficienc...
Diaverum appoints Head of Quality & Business Processes
Organisational changes centralise quality measures and create additional synergies across the countries Diaverum, one of the world’s leading renal care providers, is...
Collaboration between SwedenBIO and the EBD Group and partneringONE® to Facilitate Partnering ...
Zurich, Switzerland; Stockholm, Sweden and Carlsbad, CA, USA, May 6, 2013 / B3C newswire / – EBD Group, organizer of the life science industry’s leading partnering event...
Regulatory News: The change is made with effect from May 6, 2013. About Mertiva Mertiva AB (former Diamyd Medical)(STO:DIAM-B) primarily consists...
King of Sweden Presents Crafoord Award to Feinstein Institute Arthritis Researcher
MANHASSET, N.Y., May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Peter K. Gregersen, MD, a scientist at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, on Thursday was awarded the prestigious Crafoord Prize for...
TFS acquires US Oncology and Vaccine specialist Beardsworth Consulting Group, Inc.
LUND, Sweden, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 26th, 2013, TFS International (TFS) has completed the acquisition of the New Jersey based Oncology and Vaccine specialist Contract Resear...
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Mannatech develops high-quality health, weight and fitness, and skin care products that are based on the solid foundation of nutritional science and development standards. These p...
IKEA, the worldâs leading home furnishings company, was founded in 1943 in Sweden. Since then, IKEA has offered home furnishings and accessories of great design and quality w...
Liaison Technologies is a global integration, data management and data security company. It provides unique and high-value services to move, transform and manage business informat...
Aerocrine AB is a medical technology company focused on the improved management and care of patients with inflammatory airway diseases. As the pioneer and leader in technology to...
Digia, the software powerhouse listed in the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki exchange (DIG1V), is the worldwide exclusive commercial licensor of Qt. Digia has over 10 years of worldwide Qt ap...
Thin Film Electronics ASA (Ticker: THIN.OL) is a leader in the development of printed electronics. The first to commercialize printed rewritable memory, Thinfilm is creating print...
SCA is a global hygiene and paper company that develops and produces personal-care products, tissue, packaging solutions, publication papers and solid-wood products. SCA has many...
Phadia is setting the standard as the global leader in allergy and autoimmune blood testing. The ImmunoCAP® Specific IgE blood test delivers Results You Can Trust. The accuracy...
Headquartered at the New Jersey Institute of Technology/EDC in Newark, BioNeutral Group, Inc., is a specialty technology-based life-science company which has developed a technolog...
Lawson Software provides software and service solutions to 4,500 customers in equipment service management and rental, fashion, food & beverage, healthcare, manufacturing & distri...
Clinical Trials
Post-ERCP pancreatitis can be a serious complication to ERCP. Two studies have shown a promising preventive effect of glyceryl nitrate. This study should provide a final answer to the clin...
Retropubic vs. Transobturator Tension-Free Vaginal Tape
The so-called tension-free vaginal tape (TVT), first described in Sweden in 1996, has become a standard operation worldwide for the treatment of women with stress urinary incontinence. Thi...
OBJECTIVE(S): Prader Willi syndrome (PWS) is a multi-symptomatic genetic disorder associated with abnormalities in the growth hormone (GH)-insulin-like-growth factor (IGF)-I axis and in t...
Genetic Causes of Male Infertility
This study is being conducted at the University Hospital of Lund University in Malmo, Sweden, in collaboration with the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The...
This is a Phase 2, multi-center, open label, randomized clinical study to evaluate the safety and efficiency of SDX-101 in combination with chlorambucil (CLB) and chlorambucil alone in Chr...
Efficacy and Safety Study of BLX-028914 in Subjects With Allergic Rhinitis
This is a phase II study in patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR) and will compare the effect versus placebo of two different oral doses of BLX-028914 in an allergen challenge mod...
Exploring Integrative Medicine in Swedish Primary Care
Research over the last years have reported an increased popularity of complementary therapies (CTs) and an integration of CTs into mainstream medical settings, health care organizations an...
Social phobia is one of the most prevalent anxiety disorders in the western world. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is the psychological treatment that has the largest empirical support...
Iron Supplementation of Marginally Low Birth Weight Infants
Iron is essential for brain development and there is a well established association between iron deficiency in infants and poor neurological development. In Sweden, about 5% of newborns ha...
This study aims to estimate the burden of RV GE. The study will focus on children hospitalized for severe RV GE, Children acquiring RV GE in the hospital and the household contacts of chil...
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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and daughters' risk of gestational diabetes and obesity.
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: The primary aim of the study was to investigate the risk of developing gestational diabetes in women who were exposed to tobacco smoke in utero. Secondary aims were to assess the risk...
Morbid Obesity and Optimization of Preoperative Fluid Therapy.
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Aim. The study aimed to collect information concerning the increasing use of new psychoactive substances, commonly sold through online shops as 'Internet drugs' or 'legal highs', or in terms of masked...
Abciximab bolus with optional infusion in intervention for ST-elevation myocardial infarction.
Objectives. The standard abciximab regimen is a bolus dose followed by a 12-h infusion. Whether the bolus dose alone is sufficient for ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients receiving a high load...
Involving children in non-therapeutic research: on the development argument.
Non-therapeutic research on children raises ethical concerns. Such research is not only conducted on individuals who are incapable of providing informed consent. It also typically involves some degree...
The proteasome inhibitor bortezomib simultaneously renders tumor cells sensitive to killing by natural killer (NK) cells and resistant to killing by tumor-specific T cells. Here, we show that b-AP15,...
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The name of two islands of the West Indies, separated by a narrow channel. Their capital is Basse-Terre. They were discovered by Columbus in 1493, occupied by the French in 1635, held by the British at various times between 1759 and 1813, transferred to Sweden in 1813, and restored to France in 1816. Its status was changed from colony to a French overseas department in 1946. Columbus named it in honor of the monastery of Santa Maria de Guadalupe in Spain. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p470 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p221)
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