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Concept Life Sciences Creates UK-Based $100-Million Life Sciences Group
Concept Life Sciences, a newly formed international scientific laboratory and consultancy business, has made three acquisitions with a combined enterprise value approaching $100 million. The…
Logan Instruments Showcases Latest Automation System
This week, Logan Instruments Corp. is exhibiting at the CRS Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL. A leader in pharmaceutical testing instrumentation, Logan Instruments Corp. released…
A Tough Pill to Swallow
A Tough Pill to Swallow Patient preference and compliance are becoming increasingly important differentiators in a crowded pharmaceutical marketplace. To achieve effective product positioning and…
Constantia Flexibles Introduces Deep-Drawn Aluminum Container for Pharmaceutical Devices
Constantia Flexibles has developed a new deep-drawn aluminum container for pharmaceutical devices. Known as Constantia Safemax, the innovation offers dramatic improvement over traditional packaging in…
D3 Medicine & Viroclinicas Biosciences Sign Collaboration
d3 Medicine LLC and Viroclinics Biosciences BV recently announced they have signed a non-exclusive Memorandum of Understanding to provide biopharmaceutical customers with an integrated solution…
PolyPid Announces US Patent Allowance for Sustained Release of Nucleic Acid Matrix Compositions
PolyPid recently announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a Notice of Allowance for US application Serial No. 13/574,040, a…
Horizon Discovery Licenses AAV Gene Delivery Technology
Horizon Discovery Group plc recently announced it has entered into a non-exclusive license agreement with Stanford University to access intellectual property related to the use…
Catalent Marks 40 Years in Japan
Catalent Pharma Solutions, now in its 40th year in the Japanese market, recently announced that it has appointed Tadahiro Matsumura as Country Leader, Japan. In…
Antitope & Synthon Announce Collaboration
Antitope Limited recently announced it will collaborate with Synthon Biopharmaceuticals BV to assess the potential immunogenicity of candidate antibodies for Synthon’s ADC programs. Antitope…
Increased Government Efforts Aim to Reinvigorate a Stagnant Antibiotics Market
Christopher Pace, PhD, GlobalData’s Analyst covering Infectious Diseases, says “On July 1, 2014, UK Prime Minister David Cameron revealed the formation of an independent review panel…
MannKind Corporation Announces FDA Approval of Novel, Rapid-Acting Inhaled Insulin for the Treatment of Diabetes
MannKind Corporation (Nasdaq:MNKD) recently announced that the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved AFREZZA (insulin human) Inhalation Powder to improve glycemic control in…
Bionomics & Merck Enter New Research Collaboration
Bionomics Limited recently announced it has entered into an exclusive Research Collaboration and License Agreement with Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and…
Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Janssen Biotech & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Launch $10-Million Collaboration
Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Boston and Janssen Biotech, Inc. recently announced a 3-year immuno-oncology lung cancer collaboration with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Through the collaboration,…
Dimension Therapeutics & Bayer Sign $252-Million Deal
Dimension Therapeutics recently announced it has entered into a collaboration with Bayer HealthCare for the development and commercialization of a novel gene therapy for the…
Pluristem Selects Rotator Cuff Repair as New Orthopedic Indication
Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. recently announced it has selected rotator cuff repair as the second indication in its orthopedic clinical program. The company's PLacental eXpanded (PLX)…
SMARTag Toxicology Study Demonstrates Decreased Mortality & Better Tolerability
Redwood Bioscience and Catalent Pharma Solutions recently announced the results of an in vivo toxicology study, demonstrating that an Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC) generated using…
Tech Group Receives 2014 Lilly Global Supplier Award
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. recently announced that its Tech Group Rockford facility has received a 2014 Lilly Global Supplier Award. Lilly presented the award at…
CEA-Leti & Akrivis Technologies to Develop Nanomedicine Platform for High Payload Targeted Drug Delivery
CEA-Leti and Akrivis Technologies, LLC recently announced their collaboration to develop an extremely adaptable, efficient, and highly targeted drug delivery platform for chemotherapy and other…
Can Regenerative Medicine be the Cure for Cancer & Other Deadly Diseases?
Regenerative medicine has the potential to transform healthcare all over the world and usher human health into a new era of wellness. Currently, the majority…
Exostar & SAFE-BioPharma Announce Strategic Partnership
Exostar and SAFE-BioPharma Association recently announced a new partnership that will enable Exostar to issue non-public key infrastructure (PKI) identity credentials at Levels of Assurance…
