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Valeant pharma acquires Salix for $11.1 billion

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Valeant Pharmaceuticals beat out Endo International in a battle to take over Salix Pharmaceuticals Ltd NASDAQSLXP in a deal valued at billion Valeant had originally agreed to pay per share of Salix but increased the offer to per share Valeant offe...

Framingham start-up Berg uses Artificial Intelligence to find Cancer Drugs

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Its called BPM Its one of many cancer drugs being developed in Massachusetts but its different BPM may be the first drug candidate that did not come from a scientist running experiments based on a hypothesis Instead it came from artificial intelli...

Cloud Pharmaceuticals teams up with University of Florida to pursue 'in silico' approach in developing new cancer drugs

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Could be the beginnings of a win to the in silico approach to drug development Cloud Pharmaceuticals is working with University of Florida to develop new cancer drugs that are conceived on a computer The Research Triangle Parkbased startup will shar...

GSK, Pfizer, Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, Biogen group backs $100 mln UK-led Dementia Research fund

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

A group of large drug companies has backed a new UKled venture capital fund dedicated to dementia research GlaxoSmithKline Pfizer Johnson Johnson Lilly and Biogen have all committed to invest in the fund alongside charity Alzheimers Research UK Th...

Daiichi Sankyo facilitates drug discovery project for 2015 through collaborative research

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited a global pharmaceutical company announced its TaNeDS Take a New challenge for Drug diScovery collaborative drug discovery project for The company will select research partners for the project from among researchers bas...

Valeant Pharmaceutical trumps Endo with $10.96 billion bid for Salix Pharma

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc increased its offer for Salix Pharmaceuticals Inc to billion in cash on Monday eclipsing Endo International Plc the only other bidder The maker of gastrointestinal drugs has agreed to Valeants new offer of...

TWi Pharmaceuticals announces the first shipment of its generic product in the U.S. market

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

TWi Pharmaceuticals Inc announced today that its whollyowned subsidiary TWi Pharmaceuticals USA shipped the first generic product in its own label on March This makes TWi the first Taiwanese pharmaceutical company to directly sell generic pharmaceu...

Amgen and Sanofi sponsored studies identify new class of drugs known to lower cholesterol and reduce risk of heart attacks

Monday, March 16, 2015

Studies are likely to fuel increased interest in the new drug class Researchers reported the first evidence that a new class of drugs known to dramatically lower cholesterol may also reduce risk of heart attacks strokes and other serious consequence...

Healthcare investment firm Quadria Capital invests in Indonesian pharma co SOHO

Monday, March 16, 2015

Indonesian pharmaceutical products company PT SOHO Global Health SOHO has received funding from Asian healthcare investment firm Quadria Capital The firms first private equity investment in Indonesia is aimed to increase access to differentiated medi...

Japan's pharma market to reach $80 billion in value by 2020

Monday, March 16, 2015

Japans pharmaceutical market value is set to grow at a tepid Compound Annual Growth Rate CAGR of percent from billion in to reach billion by driven by new product launches and the healthcare burden of the countrys aging population according to r...