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Curis & Aurigene Announce Collaboration, License & Option Agreement
Curis, Inc. and Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited recently announced they have entered into an exclusive collaboration agreement focused on immuno-oncology and selected precision oncology targets.…
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Announces $450-Million Proposed Public Offering
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:ALNY) recently announced it has commenced an underwritten public offering of shares of its common stock to raise aggregate proceeds of approximately…
Pfanstiehl Launches New cGMP-produced, Parenteral-Grade Maltose for Pharmaceutical Formulations
Pfanstiehl recently announced the launch of a new high-purity, low endotoxin, Maltose (USP/NF, EP, JP), manufactured in the US under strict cGMP, ICH Q7- compliant…
Catalent Expands Integrated Softgel Operations
Catalent Pharma Solutions recently announced it will add new coating and blister packaging equipment at its 360,000-sq-ft, Eberbach, Germany, softgel manufacturing facility, expanding the integrated…
Baxter BioPharma Solutions Joins PBOA
The Pharma & Biopharma Outsourcing Association (PBOA) recently announced that Nelson Patterson, Vice President, Sales and Marketing at Baxter BioPharma Solutions, has been elected to…
Innovent Biologics Completes $100-Million Financing to Advance Biologic Pipeline & Operations
Innovent Biologics, Inc. recently announced it has raised $100 million in Series C financing. Legend Capital led the financing. Other new investors included Singapore-based Temasek…
Colorectal Cancer Treatment Market Value to Hit $9.4 Billion
The value of the Colorectal Cancer (CRC) therapeutics market will increase moderately, from $8.3 billion in 2013 to $9.4 billion by 2020, representing a Compound…
Asia-Pacific Continues to Drive Global Healthcare Investment, Innovation & Growth
The dynamic healthcare landscape across the Asia-Pacific is expected to continue its strong growth momentum in areas of new entities, investments and products, with the…
Treatment Market for Irritable Bowel Syndrome Could Hit $1.5 Billion
The global therapeutics market for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is set to rise in value from $589.6 million in 2013 to $1.5 billion by 2023,…
Unilife Enters Definitive Global Strategic Agreement With AbbVie
On January 15, 2015, Unilife Corporation (Unilife) entered into a definitive global strategic agreement with AbbVie Inc. (AbbVie) for the customization and supply of its…
Orphan Drug Prices Facing Increased Scrutiny Following Historic Year for Approvals
With the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approving an all-time record number of orphan drugs during 2014, the pricing of these treatments is set…
Depomed to Acquire US Drug Franchise Rights $1.05 Billion
Depomed, Inc. recently announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the US rights to the NUCYNTA franchise from Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for…
CTI BioPharma Raises $112 Million for New Biotech Fund
CTI Life Sciences recently announced the first closing of its second venture capital fund (CTI II), with C$134 million of capital now available for investment.…
SGS Expands Biomarker Services
SGS Life Science Services recently announced that its laboratory in Poitiers, France, has successfully completed a full analytical validation of the novel Meso Scale Discovery…
Oxford BioTherapeutics Grants Exclusive License to Boehringer Ingelheim
Oxford BioTherapeutics recently announced that Boehringer Ingelheim has exercised an option to receive exclusive rights to an oncology target from an ongoing discovery collaboration. The…
MRIGlobal Wins $54-Million Contract to Support Drug Development
MRIGlobal recently announced it has been awarded a $54-million, 10-year program from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to provide support for the…
Catalent to Collaborate on SMARTag
Catalent Pharma Solutions recently announced it has entered into a collaboration with Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement, a Sanofi Company (EURONEXT: SAN) (NYSE: SNY) to implement…
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Denmark’s Pharmaceutical Market Value to Decline to $3 Billion by 2020
Denmark’s pharmaceutical market will decline in value from $3.5 billion in 2013 to $3 billion by 2020, with price-cap agreements and high tax rates on…
goBalto Announces Latest Release of goBalto Activate
goBalto, Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based clinical study startup solutions, recently announced the release of its latest version of goBalto Activate, its flagship study startup…
