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Inovio Pharma gets green signal to test Zika vaccine in human trial
Tuesday, June 21, 2016Drug developer Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc and its partner GeneOne Life Sciences Inc said they had received approval from US regulators to start an early stage human trial testing their Zika vaccine The earlystage study will enroll healthy subjects...
Roche skin cancer drugs 'too expensive', says UK cost agency
Friday, June 17, 2016Roches twodrug combination of Cotellic and Zelboraf for melanoma was rejected by Britains healthcare cost agency NICE as too expensive on Thursday in contrast to the green light given in April to a rival cocktail from Novartis Both treatments are de...
Merck's Keytruda prolongs life in big lung-cancer study
Friday, June 17, 2016Advanced lung cancer patients who took Merck Co Incs Keytruda immunooncology medicine in a large trial and were previously untreated went longer without their disease worsening and showed a survival advantage over those given standard chemotherapy t...
UK cost agency speeds approval of Bristol melanoma drug cocktail
Friday, June 17, 2016British melanoma patients will be the first in Europe to receive a new drug cocktail combining two immunotherapy treatments following an unusually rapid approval by the countrys healthcare cost agency NICE on Friday The National Institute for Health...
Eisai launches New Oral Suspension Formulation for Antiepileptic Drug Fycompa® (Perampanel) in the United States
Friday, June 17, 2016Eisai Co Ltd announced that it has launched Fycompa perampanel Oral Suspension a new formulation of its inhousediscovered antiepileptic drug AED Fycompa in the United States Fycompa is a firstinclass AED discovered at Eisais Tsukuba Research Laborat...
RoundTable Healthcare Partners Completes Sale of the Topical Pharmaceutical Division of Renaissance Acquisition Holdings, LLC to Mylan N.V.
Thursday, June 16, 2016RoundTable Healthcare Partners an operatingoriented private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry announced today that it has completed the sale of the topical pharmaceutical business the Topical Division of Renaissance Acquisiti...
Carbylan Therapeutics and Kalvista pharmaceuticals enter into share purchase agreement
Thursday, June 16, 2016Carbylan Therapeutics Inc and Kalvista Pharmaceuticals Ltd Enter into share purchase agreement Carbylan Therapeutics says have entered into share purchase agreement pursuant to which shareholders of Kalvista will become majority owners of co Carbyl...
MRC Technology and AstraZeneca call for epigenetic targets in respiratory disease
Thursday, June 16, 2016MRC Technology MRCT a medical research charity and AstraZeneca a global biopharmaceutical company are launching an initiative to find new epigenetic drug targets in respiratory disease MRCT and AstraZeneca are now seeking academics with relevant epig...
Aegerion Pharmaceuticals and QLT Inc. Agree to Strategic Merger
Thursday, June 16, 2016Aegerion Pharmaceuticals Inc and QLT Inc announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Aegerion will be merged with a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of QLT Upon completion of the proposed merger each outstanding sh...
Valeant CEO reiterates plans to rebuild embattled company
Wednesday, June 15, 2016Valeant Pharmaceuticals International new CEO Joseph Papa met with shareholders Tuesday at the companys annual meeting outlining his stabilization plan to rebuild the companys reputation amid accusations of accounting abnormalities price gouging and...
