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For Sirpa and Markku Jalkanen of Finland, M.D. and Ph.D., married, immunotherapy researchers, working together came as naturally as a courtship.

Cardiovascular diseases have a high mortality rate and although prevention is key, there are many companies, including Nordic ones, determined to develop better treatments.

Victor Ambros, Professor of Molecular Medicine and the Silverman Chair in Natural Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, is one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Four months after XNK Therapeutics, located in Huddinge, Sweden, declared bankruptcy, the clinical-stage biotechnology company’s building and physical assets were sold and the lease agreement transferred to BioLamina. 

Downsizing a company is one of the most difficult decisions a chief executive can make, after which comes the equally painful decision of when to do it.

His is not a household name, but the drugs developed thanks to Danish scientist Jens Juul Holst’s research certainly are.