
Acquisition - July 9, 2025
Alvotech acquires Ivers-Lee Group in Switzerland
Alvotech has announced the expansion of its capacity for assembly and packaging with the acquisition of Ivers-Lee Group, a family owned business with headquarters in Burgdorf, Switzerland specializing in providing assembly and packaging services for the pharmaceutical sector.

Pharma Business - July 7, 2025
AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi approved in the EU
AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi (durvalumab) has been approved in the European Union (EU) for the treatment of adult patients with resectable muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) in combination with gemcitabine and cisplatin as neoadjuvant treatment, followed by Imfinzi as monotherapy adjuvant treatment after radical cystectomy (surgery to remove the bladder).

The magazine - July 6, 2025
Summer greetings from Nordic Life Science!
We would like to thank our readers, subscribers and collaboration partners for a fruitful and eventful Q1 + Q2 2025, and we wish you all a most wonderful summer!

Biotech Award - July 2, 2025
Lars Lannfelt to receive the Hartwig Piepenbrock-DZNE Prize
BioArctic’s founder, Professor Lars Lannfelt, will receive the prize for his pioneering contributions to the understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and to the development of the drug lecanemab.

Agreement - July 2, 2025
Alvotech and Advanz Pharma enter agreement
The companies have entered into a supply and commercialization agreement for AVT10, Alvotech’s biosimilar candidate to Cimzia (certolizumab pegol).

New Market - July 2, 2025
Camurus’ Oczyesa receives marketing authorization in the EU
Camurus has announced that the European Commission (EC) has granted Oczyesa, octreotide subcutaneous depot, marketing authorization for the maintenance treatment in adult patients with acromegaly who have responded to and tolerated treatment with somatostatin analogs.