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SwedenBIO Frida Lawenius

News and Trends 20 Dec 2022

Watch: SwedenBIO leading the way

SwedenBIO is the national non-profit association for the life science industry in Sweden, with more than 300 members.

December 20, 2022 - 1 minutemin - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 14 Nov 2022

EpiEndo gets regulatory approval for first patient study of first non-antibiotic macrolide

EpiEndo Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharma company developing therapeutics for chronic inflammatory diseases, has received regulatory approval to begin a phase 2a clinical trial. The trial will be with lead molecule EP395 in COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) patients, an orally available macrolide or ‘Barriolide,’ with reduced antimicrobial resistance potential. It aims to address the unmet […]

November 14, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

Beyond Biotech podcast 14

News and Trends 16 Sep 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 14: Nordic Life Science NLS Days 2022

This week’s podcast is dedicated to Nordic Life Science Days, otherwise known as NLS Days. This year’s version is an in-person event from September 28-29, at the Malmömässan in Malmö, Sweden. In our preview of NLS Days, which features sessions and fireside chats, company presentations, an exhibition, and one-on-one partnering meetings, we have interviews with […]

September 16, 2022

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News and Trends 31 Aug 2022

Regulatory approval given to Iceland’s EpiEndo for study of COPD treatment

A treatment for chronic respiratory disorders will be the subject of a clinical trial in Iceland after regulatory and ethics approval was granted. EpiEndo Pharmaceuticals will start a clinical trial of its lipopolysaccharide challenge with lead molecule EP395. Available orally, EP395 is an macrolide or Barriolide with reduced antimicrobial activity which aims to address the […]

August 31, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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News and Trends 13 Sep 2019

Icelandic Company to Sequence 225,000 Genomes from UK Patients

The Icelandic genomics company deCODE genetics has joined the UK’s Wellcome Sanger Institute in sequencing 450,000 genomes as part of a massive €224M (£200M) project organized by the UK Biobank initiative. The UK Biobank’s €224M grant includes €56M (£50M) from the UK government, €56M from the UK’s Wellcome Trust charity, and €112M (£100M) from big […]

September 13, 2019 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Kerecis fish skin wound healing

News and Trends 28 Jun 2017

A Peek into the Icelandic Company using Fish Skin to Heal Wounds

Kerecis exploits the natural properties of fish skin to manufacture wound dressings that help tissues repair much faster than before. From a small town in northern Iceland, Kerecis is revolutionizing the treatment of wounds with a local product, fish. The company has developed a method to turn their skin into wound dressings that promote cell growth […]

June 28, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 18 Aug 2016

This Icelandic Start-Up just raised Money to turn injections into Eye-Drops

Oculis just closed its Series A fundraising with the help of Icelandic investors. The money will help get its first eye-drops in the market, to treat diabetic macular edema (DME) without injections or implants. Based in Reykjavik, Oculis was founded in 2003 to develop a new drug delivery platform. This technology consists of solubilizing nanoparticles (SNP), which […]

August 18, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

deCODE

News and Trends 26 Mar 2015

The Genomic Portrait of Iceland

A package of four landmark papers were published yesterday in the online edition of Nature Genetics. The research, written by a team of deCODE scientists, was built on whole-genome sequence data from more than 100,000 people from across Iceland. The four milestone studies together present the most detailed portrait of a population yet assembled using the latest technology […]

March 26, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

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