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Actavis to acquire UK generics firm Auden Mckenzie
Tuesday, January 27, 2015Irelandheadquartered generic major Actavis NYSE ACT said today that it has reached agreement to acquire UKbased Auden Mckenzie a dynamic and fast growing company focused on the development licensing and marketing of niche generic medicines and propri...
Sanofi and Regeneron take the lead in bringing new cholesterol drug to US market
Tuesday, January 27, 2015Regeneron REGNPharmaceuticals Inc and Sanofi may get a head start on their biggest competitor in bringing a new class of cholesterol drugs to the US market The US Food and Drug Administration has until July to make a decision on the companies appli...
Swiss drug company Novartis expects to gain momentum in business depaite weaker profit
Tuesday, January 27, 2015Swiss pharmaceutical giantNovartisAG on Tuesday reported a fall in fourthquarter profit but said it expects its business to gain momentum this year despite uncertainty spawned by the strengthened Swiss franc Baselbased Novartis said net sales would...
Kite Pharma expands R&D in chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy with Sourasky Medical
Tuesday, January 27, 2015US clinicalstage biopharma company Kite Pharma Nasdaq KITE focused on developing engineered autologous T cell therapy eACT products for the treatment of cancer has expanded its agreement with Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center to research and develop n...
FDA approves a second vaccine to prevent serogroup B meningococcal disease
Saturday, January 24, 2015The US Food and Drug Administration today approved Bexsero a vaccine to prevent invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B in individuals through years of age Bexsero is the second vaccine approved by the FDA in th...
India to have locally-made low cost rotavirus vaccine this year
Saturday, January 24, 2015India will soon have a locally manufactured low cost rotavirus vaccine as part of the governments universal immunization programme UIP The vaccine is expected to be available at almost onefifteenth of the current market price a senior official privy...
Dana-Farber expands cancer research space in Boston
Friday, January 23, 2015DanaFarber Cancer Institute said today it will expand its research space by moving in starting later this month into portions of five floors at a recentlycompleted laboratory building in Bostons Longwood Medical Area section The new space will house...
EMA’s CHMP nods positive for Novo Nordisk's Saxenda for treating obesity
Friday, January 23, 2015Danish diabetes care giant Novo Nordisk NOV N revealed yesterday that the European Medicines Agencys Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use CHMP has adopted a positive opinion for the use of Saxenda liraglutide mg for the treatment of obesity...
Kite expands its immuno-oncology brain trust in the CAR-T footrace
Friday, January 23, 2015Kite Pharma KITE contending with a slew of rivals in the newfangled field of immunooncology has aligned itself with a pioneer in the field teaming up with an Israeli university to work on treatments that train the bodys own defenses on cancerous grow...
Pharmaceutical Product Development, LLC expands GMP Laboratory in Athlone, Ireland
Thursday, January 22, 2015Pharmaceutical Product Development LLC PPD has expanded its good manufacturing practices GMP operations in Athlone Ireland by adding a new stateoftheart laboratory for cellbased assays to its existing portfolio of services at the facility The new lab...
