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Trump announces US withdrawal from WHO

21 January 2025 | 9:16 am

President Donald Trump announced on Monday January 20 that the United States will leave the World Health Organization (WHO).

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First Danish patients treated with gene therapy for haemophilia B

21 January 2025 | 8:33 am

CSL Behring Denmark has announced that the first Danish patients with haemophilia B were treated with the gene therapy HEMGENIX (etranacogene dezaparvovec).

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AstraZeneca’s Datroway approved in the US

20 January 2025 | 2:56 pm

First approval in the US for AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Datroway based on TROPION-Breast01 results showing 37% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death vs. chemotherapy.

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Kajaani and Linköping to host European AI factories

20 January 2025 | 11:28 am

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC) has selected seven proposals to establish and operate the first AI Factories across Europe, and two of them are located in the Nordic region. 

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SyntheticMR appoints new CEO

20 January 2025 | 10:20 am

Vedran Beglerbegovic is appointed as the new CEO of SyntheticMR.

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Orexo converts future rights for OX-MPI to shares in Gesynta

20 January 2025 | 10:12 am

Orexo has announced that rights to future transaction proceeds and royalty on future net revenues for the drug candidate vipoglanstat (OX-MPI), have been converted to shares in Gesynta Pharma.

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Gesynta Pharma raises SEK 304 million

20 January 2025 | 9:55 am

Gesynta Pharma has secured SEK 304 million in a Series B financing round led by Innovestor Life Science.

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New Nordic consortia on post-COVID condition

16 January 2025 | 9:19 am

NordForsk has decided to fund three Nordic networking activities to support knowledge development on the post-COVID condition (PCC).

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New research shows that AI can improve ovarian cancer diagnoses

16 January 2025 | 6:45 am

A new international study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet shows that AI-based models can outperform human experts at identifying ovarian cancer in ultrasound images.

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GSK to acquire IDRx for up to USD 1.15 billion

15 January 2025 | 8:53 am

IDRx is a Boston-based, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing precision therapeutics for the treatment of GIST.

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