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Cerecor Acquires Rights to COMT Inhibitors
Cerecor Inc. recently announced it has acquired exclusive, worldwide rights to develop, register, and commercialize agents that inhibit catechol-O-methyltransferase inhibitors (COMT inhibitors), previously discovered and…
Cook Pharmica Receives Additional Approval From US FDA
Cook Pharmica, which develops and manufactures pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products on a contract basis, recently received more good news from the US FDA. The company…
Enanta Pharmaceuticals Raises $56-Million in IPO
Enanta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. recently announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 4,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public…
OXiGENE Announces Patent Issuance for Novel Anticancer Class of Agents
OXiGENE, Inc. recently announced the US Patent and Trademark Office issued US Patent No. 8,397,859, covering certain benzosuberene-based compounds, including the analogues referred to as…
BioClinica & CoreLab Combination Creates Leader for Imaging Core Lab Services
BioClinica, Inc., recently announced that JLL Partners and Ampersand Capital Partners, two leading middle market private equity firms, have completed their acquisition of BioClinica and…
Boehringer Ingelheim Forms Joint Venture With Presidio Pharmaceuticals
Presidio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. recently announced a non-exclusive collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim for a Phase IIa clinical trial of an interferon-free, all-oral, direct-acting antiviral (DAA) combination…
Ligand Signs Global License Deal With Spectrum
Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated recently announced the signing of global license and supply agreements with Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for the development and commercialization of Ligand's Captisol-enabled,…
Mesoblast Limited Completes $176 Million Private Placement
Regenerative medicine company Mesoblast Limited recently announced it has completed a private placement of its shares, raising A$170 million. Mesoblast now has cash reserves of…
OvaScience Announces Agreement for $35 Million Private Placement
OvaScience recently announced the execution of a securities purchase agreement with certain institutional and accredited investors providing for a private placement, or PIPE, financing. New…
Receptos Licenses AbbVie Antibody for Co-Development
Receptos Inc. recently announced it has entered a development license and option agreement to in-license a humanized anti-interleukin-13 (IL-13) antibody asset from AbbVie. The asset,…
Accelovance Expansion Continues With CRO Acquisition
Accelovance, Inc. recently announced the acquisition of Radiant Development, the CRO division of Radiant Research. This is the latest development in an expansion strategy by…
Ajinomoto Agrees to Acquire Althea Technologies
Ajinomoto Co., Inc. and Althea Technologies, Inc. recently announced they have entered into a definitive agreement by which Ajinomoto Co. will acquire Althea Technologies, a…
Celgene Gives $13 Million to Presage Biosciences for Cancer Drug Combinations
Presage, a spin-off from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, recently announced it has struck a new partnership with Summit, NJ-based Celgene, the world's No.…
Delivery Institute Welcomes Executive Director; Advisory Board Member
The Catalent Applied Drug Delivery Institute recently announced that Dr. Ralph Lipp a well-known pharmaceutical industry executive and inventor, will become the founding member of…
INNERCAP Granted Patent for Multi-Phase, Multi-Compartment Capsular Delivery Apparatus
INNERCAP Technologies, Inc., a combination drug delivery system company, recently announced the grant of US Patent No. 8,361,497 B2 titled Multi-Phase, Multi-Compartment Capsular Delivery Apparatus.…
PolyTherics Receives Milestone Payment From Celtic Pharma
PolyTherics Limited recently announced it has received an undisclosed milestone payment from Celtic Pharma Holdings, triggered by further progress on their haematology alliance to produce…
BioAlliance Pharma Signs Collaborative Agreement With Vaccine Leader
BioAlliance Pharma SA recently announced a collaboration agreement with one of the world-leading vaccine companies to develop a vaccine application of its Lauriad mucoadhesive…
Capsugel Announces Major Acquisition
Capsugel recently announced it has acquired Encap Drug Delivery. Based in Scotland, Encap's focus on liquid and semi-solid encapsulation-based product development, and clinical and…
Kala Pharmaceuticals Secures $11.5 Million
Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. recently announced today that it has secured $11.5 million in Series A equity financing through new and existing investors. New and…
Novozymes Biopharma's rAlbumin Approved in Japan
Novozymes Biopharma has recently announced that one of its leading customers has achieved approval of a medical device in Japan using Recombumin Alpha -…
