Renée Aguiar-Lucander, CEO of Calliditas Therapeutics: Blazing a trail in rare diseases

Calliditas is one of European biopharma’s big success stories, bringing a rare disease drug to market and commercializing it using its own sales force. Richard Staines from Optimum Strategic Communications spoke with CEO Renée Aguiar-Lucander who outlined the challenges the company has faced on its journey. Lengthy experience as a life science investor has helped […]

Scarlet Therapeutics: A Bright Spot in Bristol’s Biotech Scene

Scarlet Therapeutics, a leader in red blood cell-based therapeutics (tRBCs), has launched with seed funding from Science Creates Ventures and Meltwind to further develop its platform.  Born out of more than a decade of research at the University of Bristol and spearheaded by Professors Ashley Toye and Jan Frayne, with CEO Alistair Irvine at the […]

International Day of Action for Women’s Health

  Over 30 years ago, the International Day of Action for Women’s Health was established by women’s rights activists to speak out and raise awareness of reproductive, sexual and maternal health issues faced by women globally. Today, the awareness day is still observed and aims to strive towards a holistic, women-centric and rights-based approach to […]

Could virtual wards be the answer to NHS waiting lists?

As the NHS continues to tackle understaffing and over-demand on its hospital capacity, the potential for doctors to support certain patients at home via a ‘virtual wards’ service has become a hot topic in the media and beyond.  The Government’s commitment to making an initial £200m available to virtual wards in 2022-23 and a further […]

Life science leaders give valuable advice on surviving a downturn  

The final panel at this year’s Anglonordic Life Science Conference was led by Mike Ward, Global Head of Life Sciences & Healthcare Thought Leadership at Clarivate, who asked life science leaders for their wisdom on the subject: “If I knew then, what I know now.”   The expert panel had a wealth of experience to draw […]