Profiles in MedTech - March 23, 2017
Patient empowerment through digitalization
He has been sundhed.dk’s anchorman from the very beginning, 14 years ago. Morten Elbæk Petersen, CEO of the Danish eHealth portal, talks about the success story behind Europe’s largest patient portal, patient empowerment and his passion for preventive healthcare and democracy. The initiative to establish the eHealth portal, sundhed.dk, was taken by the Association of County Councils in […]
Profiles in Business - March 22, 2017
“The scientist in me wants to make a difference”
After ten years of diabetes research and development at Novo Nordisk, Dorte X. Gram took her findings and work further to start something on her own. As founder and CEO of PILA PHARMA she hopes to bring a new oral anti-diabetic agent to the market. What made you take the leap to go on your […]
Profiles in Business - March 8, 2017
“We have to embrace the new era of diabetes care”
Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, Executive Vice President and Chief Science Officer at Novo Nordisk, talks about the Danish pharma giant’s drug-development strategy, the new era of diabetes care and his 25 year-long passion for his job. The changing diabetes market, with increasing competition and high prices for diabetes products in the US, has made the world’s […]
Nobel Prize Discoveries - February 22, 2017
Nobel Laureate Medicine 2016: Yoshinori Ohsumi
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine highlights a process that is integral to aging, cancer, and infectious disease, but has not been well known outside of cell biology. On 7 December 2016, Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi from the Tokyo Institute of Technology received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Ohsumi was honored for […]
