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Amgen to Buy Micromet for $1.16 Billion
Amgen and Micromet, Inc. recently announced the companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amgen will acquire Micromet, a biotechnology company founded…
Catalent Expands Controlled-Release Drug Development & Supply Capabilities
Catalent Pharma Solutions recently announced it is continuing to expand its drug development and delivery capabilities to help customers bring better treatments to patients through…
Encap Drug Delivery Adds New Commercial Product to Portfolio
Encap Drug Delivery, the world's leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) totally dedicated to liquid and semi-solid (hot melt) filled capsules, recerntly announced the…
New Delivery Platform Discussed at Partnerships Meeting
On January 26, 2012, at the Drug Delivery Partnerships meeting in Las Vegas, a new drug delivery platform was discussed during the session titled Preformulation…
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals to Acquire Worldwide Rights to Market ZEVALIN
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals recently announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire licensing rights to market ZEVALIN (ibritumomab tiuxetan) injection for intravenous use outside the…
Zogenix & Battelle to Collaborate on Advanced Drug Delivery Technology
Zogenix, Inc. and Battelle recently announced a unique collaboration with the objective of advancing the development and commercialization of Zogenix's DosePro drug delivery technology outside…
1/24/2012
Dishman Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals Acquires Creapharm Parenterals Switzerland-based Carbogen Amcis AG, a leading pharmaceutical process development and API manufacturing company, recently announced the acquisition of…
Aptalis Pharma Announces NDA Approval of Oral Powder Formulation of Viread
Aptalis Pharma recently announced the US FDA has approved an NDA for Gilead Sciences, Inc.'s Viread (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) oral powder in combination with other…
Avila Announces Allowance of IND Application for Oral EGFR Mutant-Selective Inhibitor
Avila Therapeutics, Inc. recently announced it has achieved the first milestone in its Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) Mutant-Selective Inhibitor (EMSI) alliance with Clovis Oncology,…
B. Braun Becomes First to Deliver FDA-Approved 2-g Cefazolin
B. Braun Medical Inc. recently announced it received US FDA approval for 2-g Cefazolin for Injection USP and Dextrose Injection USP in B. Braun's DUPLEX…
Dishman Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals Acquires Creapharm Parenterals
Switzerland-based Carbogen Amcis AG, a leading pharmaceutical process development and API manufacturing company, recently announced the acquisition of Creapharm Parenterals, a subsidiary of France-based Creapharm…
Patheon Adds Soft Gel Capsule Capabilities Through New Partnership
Patheon and PROCAPS S.A. recently announced an agreement to provide the pharmaceutical industry a new world-class line of prescription pharmaceutical soft-gel product development and manufacturing…
RaNA Therapeutics Emerges With $20.7 Million Start-Up Financing
RaNA Therapeutics, Inc. recently announced it has completed a $20.7 million round of financing co-led by Atlas Venture, SR One, and Monsanto, with participation of…
1/17/2012
NantWorks to Invest $85.5 Million, Creating New Jobs & Drugs California-based NantWorks, LLC, recently announced plans to locate a new pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Terre…
Brabender Pharma & Particle Sciences to Expand Extrusion Capabilities
Particle Sciences Inc. (PSI), a leading pharmaceutical CRO, is adding a Brabender Mini-Compounder 12-mm twin screw extruder, plus an ATR Torque Rheometer with single screw…
Inhibitex to be Acquired by Bristol-Myers Squibb for $2.5 Billion
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Inhibitex, Inc. recently announced the companies have signed a definitive agreement under which Bristol-Myers Squibb will acquire Inhibitex for $26 per…
NantWorks to Invest $85.5 Million, Creating New Jobs & Drugs
California-based NantWorks, LLC, recently announced plans to locate a new pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Terre Haute, Indiana, creating up to 234 new jobs by 2016.…
Sigma-Aldrich to Acquire BioReliance Corporation for $350 Million
BioReliance, a leading provider of global biopharmaceutical testing services, recently announced it has agreed to be acquired by Sigma-Aldrich Corporation. Avista Capital Partners, the majority…
Ventana Medical Systems & Cell Signaling Technology to Collaborate With Pfizer on Companion Diagnostic
Ventana Medical Systems, Inc., a member of the Roche Group, recently announced it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Pfizer Inc. and license agreement…
Xenon Pharmaceuticals Signs $646 Million Pain Pact With Roche
Xenon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. recently announced a strategic alliance with Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, to discover and develop compounds and companion diagnostics for…
