Science Impact 2026

Thomas Eldered, co-founder of Recipharm and founder of the investment company Flerie, has been appointed senior advisor to Sciety. He brings more than 35 years of experience from the pharmaceutical industry as an entrepreneur, executive, and investor.

Gesynta Pharma has completed enrollment in NOVA, its Phase II trial of the non-hormonal, non-opioid drug candidate vipoglanstat in endometriosis. The trial is fully enrolled more than three months ahead of schedule, and topline data are expected in the second quarter of 2027.

Finnish Faron Pharmaceuticals will present final survival data at ESMO 2026 from the melanoma cohort of its Phase 1/2 MATINS study. One in five patients achieved disease control on bexmarilimab alone, and these patients lived longer, although the difference was not statistically significant.

If you know what an NMT phone is, or, even more so, if you've ever used one, it's likely that you are formerly young. Slightly less so in Iceland, where well into the 2000s lots of the cool kids still had NMT phones in their jeeps. Your trusty Nokia 3310 could go several days on a charge, but drive away from a town or up a valley and the coverage quickly got spotty. With an NMT, though, you could head up toward the highlands or the upper reaches of a river and never be out of touch.

Danish allergy company ALK-Abelló reports that its house dust mite tablet Acarizax met the primary objective of a Phase 3 trial in China, with efficacy in line with earlier trials after only 24–28 weeks of treatment. ALK and its partner GenSci plan to file for approval in China in the first half of 2027.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new manufacturing process for SIMLANDI, Alvotech’s biosimilar to Humira, that more than doubles drug substance output per batch at the company’s facility in Reykjavik.

The partnership aims to advance solutions to improve care pathways, clinical trial matching, safety monitoring, and guideline-directed care.