Profiles in Pharma - June 28, 2013
Marja Makarow’s path to policy
How international opportunities drew a life sciences researcher into European and Nordic science policy. Three unexpected experiences shaped Marja Makarow’s career. Today, Professor Makarow is vice president of research at The Academy of Finland (the country’s research council). From 2008 through 2011, she was the first woman Chief Executive of the European Science Foundation (ESF). […]
Biotech article - May 16, 2013
Blue biotechnology wave
Nordic researchers are exploring bioactive compounds from the sea, looking for anticancer drugs, antibiotics, and more. The Baltic and North Seas contain more than great herring. The oceans also hold a wealth of biotechnology resources. So far, nine marine-inspired drugs such as the breast cancer therapy Halaven, have been approved in the United States or […]
Uncategorized - April 16, 2013
Older chromosomes tell cancer risk
Chromosomal changes after age 50 appear to indicate risk of blood cancer. The discovery started with GWAS—genome-wide association studies—that find genetic variations that might be responsible for a trait or a disease. When researchers conduct GWAS, they use data on sequence variations in the genomes of thousands of individuals to find variants that are associated […]
Drug Development Pharma - March 21, 2013
A pipeline push from a public-private partnership
A multimillion-euro partnership between industry and the European Union promotes research and communication on developing new antibiotics.
Business article - January 24, 2013
View from the East
Hans gregersen’s first experience with China actually happened in California in 1994. He was a visiting professor in a laboratory at the University of California San Diego where he was the only person who was not Chinese. It was a rapid introduction to a Hans Gregersen is a Scandinavian scientist-doctor-entrepreneur living in Beijing, China. He […]
Science article - January 1, 2013
Of chicken and men
Research on chicken chromosomes reassures men that the Y chromosome is here to stay. Egg-laying chickens and human males don’t seem to have much in common. But they inherited their sex in a similar way. In humans, maleness is determined by the Y chromosome. All eggs carry an X chromosome, while sperm carry X or […]
