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Jubilant HollisterStier Secures Significant Contracts
Jubilant HollisterStier, a subsidiary of Jubilant Life Sciences, recently announced its Contract Manufacturing & Services division has recently secured over $100 million in contracts with…
Nanoparticle Technology Facilitates Cancer Metastasis Research
NanoSight, leading manufacturers of unique nanoparticle characterization technology, recently reported on the breakthrough cancer metastasis research of Dr. Hector Peinado Selgas and Dr. David…
11/21/2012
Innovative Drugs to Transform Alzheimer's Disease Medication Market The patent expiry of all four existing EMEA-approved drugs for Alzheimer's disease (AD) by 2015 is likely…
11/14/2012
A Note to The Pharmaceutical Industry Upon The Re-Election of Barack Obama By: Matthew Herper, Forbes Staff, mherper@forbes.com I've covered the drug industry for 12…
A Note to The Pharmaceutical Industry Upon The Re-Election of Barack Obama
By: Matthew Herper, Forbes Staff, mherper@forbes.com I've covered the drug industry for 12 years, long enough to know that it is no monolith but a…
Novartis Expects 14 New Blockbusters
Novartis recently provided an update on its leading Research and Development (R&D) pipeline and plans for turning these assets into commercial success to provide the…
Patheon to Acquire Banner Pharmacaps
Patheon Inc. recently announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with VION N.V. to acquire Banner Pharmacaps, a specialty pharmaceutical business dedicated to the…
Regulus Therapeutics Secures $80.9 Million
Regulus Therapeutics Inc., a biopharmaceutical company leading the discovery and development of innovative medicines targeting microRNAs, recently announced its financing activity that the company expects…
Sun Pharmaceutical to Purchase PhotoDynamic Company for $230 Million
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited and DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. recently announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Sun Pharma will acquire DUSA, a…
Ziarco Pharma Acquires Pfizer Drugs, Secures Financing
Ziarco recently announced the closing of an initial $6-million tranche of Series A financing totalling $27 million. The round was led by Biotechnology Value Fund…
DSM Announces Biologics Development & Manufacturing Agreement
DSM Pharmaceutical Products recently announced it has signed a biologics contract manufacturing agreement with Paranta Biosciences Ltd of Melbourne, Australia. The contract covers the process…
Fuisz Pharma Announces Patented Film Formulations
Fuisz Pharma recently announced a patented film formulation for enhanced drug delivery performance. The seminal patent for this technology issued as United States Patent No.…
Novozymes & Malvern Publish Collaborative Study
In a recently published article, researchers from Novozymes Biopharma and Malvern Instruments describe collaborative work using light scattering techniques to demonstrate the short- and long-term…
Shire Invests $22 Million Into R&D Partnership
Shire plc recently announced a long-term, broad-based, multi-indication research collaboration in rare diseases with Fondazione Telethon, a major Italian biomedical charitable foundation, for research carried…
10/30/2012
Arthritis Signifies a Vast Untouched Market, Finds Frost & Sullivan Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors are currently the only therapeutic class available to psoriatic arthritis…
Arthritis Signifies a Vast Untouched Market, Finds Frost & Sullivan
Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors are currently the only therapeutic class available to psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients in need of additional therapy beyond standard of…
Bayer & QIAGEN Partner on Cancer Companion Dx
QIAGEN and Bayer HealthCare recently announced a collaboration agreement for the development and commercialization of companion diagnostics paired with novel Bayer HealthCare drugs, initially to…
10/24/2012
Avantor & Rubicon to Collaborate on Next-Generation Functional Excipients Avantor Performance Materials recently announced it has signed a collaboration agreement with Rubicon Research Private…
Avantor & Rubicon to Collaborate on Next-Generation Functional Excipients
Avantor Performance Materials recently announced it has signed a collaboration agreement with Rubicon Research Private LTD of Mumbai, aimed at combining the Indian company's proprietary…
Catalent Announces Drug Delivery Institute
Catalent Pharma Solutions recently announced the launch of its Catalent Applied Drug Delivery Institute at the 2012 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting…
