Market News & Trends
Italy’s Pharmaceutical Industry Value Will Drop to $18.6 Billion by 2020
The pharmaceutical industry in Italy is set to decline from $21.3 billion in 2016 to $18.6 billion by 2020, at a negative compound annual growth…
Inovio Partners With National Cancer Institute & Mayo Clinic to Initiate Hepatitis C Immunotherapy Clinical Trial
Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. recently announced its immunotherapy for hepatitis C (INO-8000) will be evaluated in a Phase I trial in chronically infected patients who are…
INTERPHEX & Industry Experts Select Nemera as Winner for Best New Product
International Pharmaceutical Expo (INTERPHEX), the premier event dedicated to pharmaceutical and biotechnology innovation, technology, and knowledge from development through commercialization and sponsored by the Parenteral…
First Gene Therapy Claims to be Successful Against Human Aging
Elizabeth Parrish, CEO of Bioviva USA Inc. has become the first human being to be successfully rejuvenated by gene therapy, after her own company’s experimental…
Bristol-Myers Squibb & Merck in Race to Dominate Head & Neck Cancer Market
Bristol-Myers Squibb & Merck in Race to Dominate Head & Neck Cancer Market Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) and Merck & Co. are set to continue…
Merrimack Unveils Its Latest Antibody-Directed Nanotherapeutic
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. recently announced positive data from preclinical studies evaluating MM-310, an antibody-directed nanotherapeutic (ADN) that encapsulates a newly engineered form of the highly…
Baxter International Initiates Offer to Exchange Shares of Baxter for Shares of Baxalta
Baxter International Inc. and Baxalta Incorporated recently announced that Baxter has commenced an offer to exchange up to 12,800,000 shares of Baxalta common stock that…
Patheon Selected by Grünenthal to Develop Drugs Using INTAC(R) Abuse-Deterrent Formulations Technology
Patheon, the leading global provider of pharmaceutical development and manufacturing services today announced it has signed a strategic agreement with Grünenthal, an independent, family-owned, international…
New Structure Identified in Membrane of Disease-Causing Bacteria
Mycobacteria cause a number of dangerous, difficult-to-treat diseases including leprosy and tuberculosis, and progress has been slow in eradicating them. But new strategies for combating…
New Potential Lung Cancer Biomarkers Identified by The West Virginia University Cancer Institute
Protea Biosciences Group, Inc. recently announced the use of its proprietary bioanalytical technology to achieve the molecular profiling of live tumor cells while they are…
MorphoSys Licensing Partner GSK Starts Phase II Study
MorphoSys AG recently announced its licensing partner GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has initiated a Phase II clinical study to investigate the effectiveness and safety of GSK3196165 (previously…
Multi-Blockbuster Drugs Will Drive Immuno-Oncology Market to $34 Billion by 2024
The total immuno-oncology market will be worth approximately $14 billion by 2019, rising to $34 billion by 2024, as the treatment of cancer patients undergoes…
Patheon Selected By Grünenthal to Develop Drugs Using INTAC(R) Abuse-Deterrent Formulations Technology
Patheon, the leading global provider of pharmaceutical development and manufacturing services today announced it has signed a strategic agreement with Grünenthal, an independent, family-owned,…
AAI Pharma Services Corporation & Cambridge Major Laboratories Are Now Alcami
AAIPharma Services Corporation (AAI) / Cambridge Major Laboratories, Inc. (CML), a leading provider of custom development and manufacturing services for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, recently announced its…
Aptar Pharma Launches eDose Counter for MDIs Integrating Proprietary Sensing Technology
Aptar Pharma, a global solution provider of innovative and proven aerosol, injection, and spray delivery systems for biotech, healthcare, and pharma products, will unveil…
FDA Accepts for Priority Review Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Supplemental Biologics License Application for Opdivo
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company recently announced the US FDA accepted a supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA), which seeks to expand the use of Opdivo to patients…
Presage Biosciences Extends Research Collaboration With Takeda
Presage Biosciences recently announced it has entered into a multi-year extension of its November 2014 research alliance with Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company Limited. The agreement provides…
Pluristem Continues to Strengthen its Position in Japan; Granted Two Key
Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. recently announced that the Japan Patent Office has granted the Company two key patents addressing: 1) Pluristem’s core technology of three-dimensional expansion…
N-of-One Selected by Admera Health to Provide Clinical Interpretation for the OncoGxOne 64-Gene Oncology Panel
N-of-One, Inc. recently announced that Admera Health has selected N-of-One to provide clinical interpretation of their 64-gene oncology panel, OncoGxOne. N-of-One’s patient-specific analysis is based…
Genomics plc & DNAnexus Collaborate to Develop Solutions for Population-Scale Sequencing Analysis
Genomics plc recently announced it has entered into a research collaboration with DNAnexus, the global leader in cloud-based genome informatics and data management. The companies…
