NLS Biotech Award

The aim of the initiative is to strengthen research in rare diseases where access to data and analytical tools remains limited.

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.

Lecanemab was awarded the Best New Drug and the award for the Clinical Advance of the Year at the Scrip Awards 2023. The Scrip Awards celebrate the best innovations and achievements of the international biopharma industry. The award for Best New Drug recognizes excellence in pharmaceutical development and celebrates lecanemab as the first and only […]

The former state epidemiologist has been awarded the prestigious BiotechBuilders Award 2023, for his contribution during the pandemic. The following justification was: “This year’s winner of the BiotechBuilders Award goes to a person who started his life in Uppsala, trained as a doctor in Lund, completed his specialist training in Linköping and finally did his […]

Sara Mangsbo, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Pharmacy and Chief Innovation Officer at Ultimovacs, receives the BiotechBuilders Award 2022. The award is given each year to an entrepreneur who has created unique opportunities which brings the Swedish life science industry forward. The organization behind the award, BiotechBuilders, states in its motivation that Sara Mangsbo […]

Earlier this summer the company won the Life Science Business Award of the city (Malmö Näringslivspris Life Science). The jury stressed the important role of PolyPeptide as part of Malmö’s Life Science cluster, recognizing the continued growth and positive developments as a high-quality, responsible employer. “I would like to thank all the employees: The award […]