Oxcia has been granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) by the FDA for OXC-201, its drug candidate for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), just weeks after a similar decision from the EMA.

A Swedish healthcare delegation traveled to Kyiv on September 2–4 to strengthen cooperation on rebuilding Ukraine’s healthcare system, timed to one of the most difficult periods for the city in months.

Zealand Pharma has signed an exclusive license agreement with newly formed US biopharmaceutical company Elvinix, granting the rights to develop and commercialize a GLP-1/gastrin dual-agonist peptide portfolio as a regenerative therapy for type 1 diabetes.

RaySearch Laboratories and US-based Accuray have entered a definitive agreement to expand their collaboration on online adaptive radiation therapy, with Accuray committing to purchase RayStation software licences worth USD 8 million.

Glycorex Transplantation has agreed a distribution deal with Grupo VIDA for its Glycosorb ABO technology in Brazil, as part of the Swedish medtech company’s continued market expansion.

Neola Medical has been granted Breakthrough Device Designation by the US FDA for Neola, its non-invasive lung monitor for preterm babies, designed to give early warning of life-threatening lung collapse.

BioArctic’s partner Eisai has received Japanese approval for Leqembi Pen, a subcutaneous autoinjector formulation of the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi (lecanemab), making Japan the third country globally to approve the self-administered formulation.

Circio Holding has completed a private placement raising approximately NOK 200 million in gross proceeds, earmarked to accelerate a new in vivo CAR-T cell therapy programme built on the company’s circVec circular-RNA platform.

The funding package consists of equity investments from private investors and significant backing from Business Finland.

A large population study using NADMED’s redox metabolite testing platform has established healthy reference ranges for NAD and glutathione, two key drivers of cellular energy metabolism, and identified distinct disease-related alterations in both from a single blood sample.

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed a treatment for acute myeloid leukemia that forces cancer cells to run at full throttle while cutting off their energy supply, driving them to burn out and die from the stress. The first study in mice shows highly promising results.

Ada Yonath, the 2009 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, died on August 31, 2026, at the age of 87. She was one of the first Nobel Prize laureates I interviewed as a new editor at Nordic Life Science – and the first I met in person, over an interview at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm. Yonath, who in 2009 became the first woman in 45 years to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, spoke to me about her curiosity, polar bears, extremely durable bacteria from the Black Sea, and her passion for science.