Profiles in Business - December 8, 2025
Leif Johansson: “We should double the government’s R&D funding from 1% to 2% of GDP”
Successful businessman and former chairman of AstraZeneca, Leif Johansson, has accumulated vast experience and knowledge about international competition, leadership, business development, and entrepreneurship, not least when it comes to science-driven industries like the life science industry.
Nobel Prize 2025 - November 25, 2025
Dr. Sakaguchi’s quest to understand immune tolerance
With a family legacy in medicine dating back to the Shogun era, the Japanese immunologist Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi has dedicated his career to the science. A 30-year-old pivotal discovery led him to this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research in peripheral immune tolerance.
Nobel Prize 2025 - November 25, 2025
“Really dive deeply into something that excites you”
Nobel Prize laureate Mary E. Brunkow’s career path has shifted between industry and academia but her end goal to generate clinical benefit and her passion for exploring new areas have never wavered.
Nobel Prize 2025 - November 21, 2025
“Faith in and commitment to solving problems and research must be restored”
The only thing Frederick J. Ramsdell does better than scientific research is drop off the grid.
Profiles in Science - November 18, 2025
Oskar Hansson: Leading the way in Alzheimer’s research
Lund University’s famous Alzheimer's researcher, Oskar Hansson, took on a new role in the pharmaceutical industry last year and is today tackling the same challenge from a different angle.
Profiles in Science - November 16, 2025
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir: One of the world’s foremost genetic scientists
It’s not often that someone is able to find their niche early in their career and find out they are where they are supposed to be to accomplish their best work. Dr. Unnur Thorsteinsdottir is one of those lucky ones.
