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Precision NanoSystems & Alnylam Form New Delivery Collaboration
Precision NanoSystems, Inc. and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading RNAi therapeutics company, recently announced the two companies have formed an exclusive collaboration focused on the…
Avantor Certifies All Doe & Ingalls Sites Under Certified Excipient Distributor Program
Avantor Performance Materials (formerly Mallinckrodt Baker) recently announced that Doe & Ingalls, a national chemical services provider and Avantor distributor, is the first distributor to…
Baxter Acquires Specialty Pharmaceutical Company
Baxter International Inc. recently announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Prism Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company based in…
Brainlab & SurgiVision Announce Strategic Alliance
Brainlab AG and SurgiVision, Inc. recently announced a collaboration aimed at integrating SurgiVision's ClearPoint product line with Brainlab's iMRI product line, with particular focus on…
Gerresheimer Manufactures Insulin Pen for Big Pharma Company
Gerresheimer AG has recently commenced the commercial production of the ClikSTAR® insulin pens for sanofi-aventis. Medical plastic systems, such as insulin pens, will be increasingly…
4/26/2011
Precision NanoSystems & Alnylam Form New Delivery Collaboration Precision NanoSystems, Inc. and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading RNAi therapeutics company, recently announced the two companies…
4/12/2011
IBM & the Institute of Bioengineering & Nanotechnology Find Breakthrough TreatmentResearchers from IBM and the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology recently discovered a nanomedicine breakthrough…
Antares Pharma Announces NDA Accepted for Filing
Antares Pharma, Inc. recently announced the NDA for Anturol Gel in patients with overactive bladder (OAB) was accepted for filing for review by the US…
Aptar Pharma Registers Contract Test Laboratories With US FDA
Aptar Pharma's French manufacturing sites in Le Vaudreuil and Val-de-Reuil have been registered as Contract Test Laboratories for extractables testing with the US FDA. A…
Comprehensive Clinical Development Finalizes Acquisition
Comprehensive Clinical Development, formerly operating as Comprehensive NeuroScience, Inc., a strategic clinical research organization delivering high-quality clinical development services from early proof-of-concept through commercialization, recently…
IBM & the Institute of Bioengineering & Nanotechnology Find Breakthrough Treatment
Researchers from IBM and the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology recently discovered a nanomedicine breakthrough in which new types of polymers were shown to physically…
Merck Serono & Newron to Broaden Collaboration on New Therapies
Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, recently announced that Merck KGaA has entered into an agreement that broadens the scope of the…
Pfizer Selling Capsugel to KKR for $2.38 Billion, Could Set Stage For Other Divestitures
Pfizer and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co L.P. recently announced they have entered into an agreement whereby an affiliate of KKR will acquire Pfizer's Capsugel…
Unigene's Oral Peptide Drug Delivery Technology Validated
Unigene Laboratories, Inc., a leader in the design, delivery, manufacture, and development of peptide-based therapeutics, recently announced that the statistically significant top-line results released by…
3/29/2011
Champions Biotechnology Announces Technology Collaboration With CephalonChampions Biotechnology, Inc. recently announced the signing of a technology collaboration agreement with Cephalon, Inc. in which Champions will…
Champions Biotechnology Announces Technology Collaboration With Cephalon
Champions Biotechnology, Inc. recently announced the signing of a technology collaboration agreement with Cephalon, Inc. in which Champions will conduct low passage Tumorgraft studies on…
Drug Delivery International Seeks to Recruit Scientists
Drug Delivery International (DDi) is on the hunt for a clutch of world-class scientists as it embarks on an aggressive growth drive. And as it…
MethylGene Announces $34.5 Million Financing to Develop Oncology & Antifungal Drugs
MethylGene Inc. recently announced its intention to complete a private placement of $34.5 million. Institutional investors participating in the offering include a fund managed by…
Procter & Gamble & TEVA Form Consumer Healthcare Partnership
The Procter & Gamble Company and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. recently announced the signing of a master agreement to create a partnership in consumer healthcare…
Seattle Genetics Announces Antibody-Drug Conjugate Collaboration With Abbott Laboratories
Seattle Genetics, Inc. recently announced it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Abbott under which Abbott will pay an upfront fee of $8 million…