Clinical Trials - January 13, 2016
Nordic clinical trials on the agenda
This year’s Outsourcing in Clinical Trials Nordics conference covered a range of current topics in the clinical and medical device trial industry. At the beginning of September this year, CEOs, Chief Medical Officers and Clinical Directors met in Copenhagen to discuss current matters within outsourcing in clinical trials. The Outsourcing in Clinical Trials Nordics (OCT […]
Careers article - December 27, 2015
”Go with the possibilities you are offered”
Nordic Life Science had a chat with last year’s winner of the award Female Leader Engineer, Katarina Atteryd, about the award’s impact on her career and her thoughts on leadership, female networks and gender awareness in the engineering industry. Tell me about your experience of winning Female Leader Engineer. How did it feel to be […]
Uncategorized - December 25, 2015
Norway: A rising life science nation
Large investments in biotech and prominent research in cancer and neuroscience are making Norway a life science force to be reckoned with. Its beautiful long coastline has given Norway a blossoming fishing industry and successful developments in marine biotechnology and aquaculture. The rich resources of oil and gas have to a large part provided Norway […]
Global report - December 24, 2015
A crisis of global concern
New and reemerging infectious diseases pose an urgent threat to the health of world populations. “We are standing on the brink of a global crisis in infectious diseases. No country is safe from them. No country can any longer afford to ignore their threat.” Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima, WHO World Health Report 1996 The spread of infectious […]
Nobel Prize Laureate - December 20, 2015
Aziz Sancar: For the love of discoveries
Aziz Sancar’s love for the world of chemistry led him to the other side of the Atlantic and to the Nobel Prize winning breakthroughs of mapping DNA repair.
Nobel Prize Laureate - December 20, 2015
Paul Modrich: Small steps, revolutionary science
For Nobel Prize Winner Paul Modrich science is about using inner creativity and seeing an idea transform step by step into new exciting discoveries. A curiosity and love for problem-solving research that has given us groundbreaking knowledge about human DNA.