Uncategorized - March 1, 2022
Nordic scientists tailor leukemia therapy using functional precision medicine approach
A functional precision medicine study conducted in Finland demonstrates that treatment selection based on results from drug sensitivity testing of patients’ cells can be clinically useful in patients with aggressive hematological cancers. Clinicians, researchers and technology experts from the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM at the University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital Comprehensive […]
Uncategorized - February 23, 2022
A precision medicine approach treats child with neuroblastoma
Swedish researchers and doctors have successfully treated a child with neuroblastoma by using a tailored precision medicine approach. “Combining genetic mapping and biological understanding with a new targeted treatment is precision medicine made real, which can make a difference and cure more children who have cancer,” says co-last author Per Kogner (Karolinska Institutet/Astrid Lindgren Children’s […]
Iceland - January 26, 2022
The largest ever study of the plasma proteome
Scientists at deCODE genetics have demonstrated how measuring the levels of a large number of proteins in plasma at a population scale when combined with data on sequence diversity and RNA expression dramatically increases insights into human diseases and other phenotypes. The scientists have used levels of five thousand proteins in plasma targeted on a […]
Uncategorized - January 26, 2022
Differences between morning and evening exercise
An international research team have mapped how the signalling molecules caused by exercise are releases by different organs in mice following exercise at different times of the day. Their atlas of exercise metabolism, published in the journal Cell Metabolism, may in the long term contribute to more effective exercise therapies that are timed to the […]
Business article - January 1, 2022
Real-World Evidence – The time is now
Nordic Life Science asked the newly formed company NordicRWE about the potential of Real-World Evidence in drug development and how we can better enable Nordic health data to be transformative and a frontrunner in this field. The amount of health-related data is rapidly increasing. At the same time, the healthcare sector is facing major challenges: […]
Funding - December 16, 2021
25 million SEK to life science research in Malmö/Lund
Foundations behind Medicon Village has decided to award almost 25 million SEK to nine research projects in Malmö and Lund. Mats Paulsson’s foundation for research, innovation and community building has decided to award 13,600,000 SEK for purposes that promote research within medicine and life sciences. The goal is to benefit healthcare, development, innovation and community […]
