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The Bayer Group has completed the voluntary takeover offer for Norwegian pharmaceutical company Algeta. According to a statement from Bayer, the payment of the offer price has been made to Algeta’s shareholders who accepted the takeover offer and, at the same time, the 43,131,641 tendered shares have been transferred to Bayer. As a result, Bayer […]

The European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences (EUFEPS) has chosen the Swedish city for its annual meeting in 2014. This years topic of EUFEPS Annual Meeting is ”Medicines for the Future – Systems Approaches to Shape Pharmaceutical Sciences”. Discussions will be held on the forthcoming EU research budget, Horizon2020 and the possibilities to apply for research […]

Karolinska Institute and Stockholm County Council are to establish a common regional biobank during 2014. SMB will be a central resource for compiling, storing and using common biobank samples as well as providing access to them. The purpose with Stockholms Medicinska Biobank, SMB, is to increase the access of biobank samples for medical research. The new […]

Data from the study demonstrate that sustained virologic response 12 weeks after the end of treatment (SVR12) was reached in 75 to 85 percent of treatment-naïve patients and 65 to 95 percent of prior null responders with HCV genotype 1b after 12 or 24 weeks of treatment. “We are pleased to report on the successfully […]

If the climate for research and innovation in life science isn’t improved, there is a risk that more large companies leave Sweden, concludes VINNOVA in a new report. According to the report Global trends with local effects – The Swedish Life Sciene Industry 1998-2012, presented on March 5 by VINNOVA, Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, […]

The Swedish Research Council has by order of the Swedish government been assigned to evaluate the operations at the research center. SciLifeLab is run in collaboration by KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology, the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm University and Uppsala University. The purpose with the review is to bring clarity on how the four institutions […]