Gentian posts record quarterly sales

Icelandic mobility solutions company Embla Medical, parent of Össur, has narrowed its full-year 2026 guidance to around 5% organic sales growth, from a previous range of 5–7%, after slower growth in its Patient Care clinic network.

Proximity, capital and the ability to scale. When Nordic Life Science reported from life science hubs across Europe, from cities such as Gothenburg, Stockholm, Basel and Barcelona to the Flanders region and the UK as a whole, the same strengths, and the same bottlenecks, kept coming up.

A new report from insurer Zurich finds that the life science sector’s greatest challenges arise only after discovery. The organizations best positioned to succeed will not necessarily be those with the most medical breakthroughs, but those that can scale up, finance, and deliver innovation reliably.

A new study co-authored by Jonathan Ilicki, Life Science Strategy Lead at the Swedish venture capital firm Industrifonden, finds that investment and business-development professionals often misjudge rare-disease assets, underestimating launch performance and misreading when the assets are most commonly acquired.

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 ongoing struggle in the Nordic countries to keep prescription drug prices affordable without shutting out innovative, more expensive therapies continues to frustrate pharmaceutical companies as the introduction of new drugs to the region slows.

Stockholm’s life science ecosystem has long shone brightly for its scientific excellence. Now, the region is tackling how to turn its world-class research, strong infrastructure, and an industrial legacy into sustained global competitiveness.