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UK Votes to Remain Part of EMA

23.07.2018 - The UK Parliament has voted 305 to 301 to take all necessary steps to continue the country’s involvement with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) after it leaves the EU. In a joint...

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Exports Drive UK Chemicals Growth in Early 2018

28.05.2018 - UK trade of chemicals and pharmaceuticals returned to positive territory in February following a year of negative growth, according to the Chemical Industries Association’s (CIA)...

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UK Life Science Boom despite Brexit?

05.12.2017 - As a UK Parliament-select committee prepared for a public evidence session on Dec. 5, examining scenarios for trading arrangements with the UK post-Brexit, reports were circulating...

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UK Watchdog Finds Concordia Guilty of Market Abuse

30.11.2017 - In a provisional ruling announced on Nov. 21, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found that Canadian pharma Concordia abused its dominant position to overcharge...

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Amsterdam Beats Milan to Host EMA

22.11.2017 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has won the much-coveted prize of providing a new home for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and its nearly 900 employees, beating out last-round...

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Pharma Chiefs Write on Brexit Threat

24.07.2017 - Industry leaders from European and UK pharmaceutical and life science associations have written a joint letter to the chief Brexit negotiators Michel Barnier (EU) and David Davis...

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UK Supreme Court Upholds Lily Alimta Patent

14.07.2017 - The UK Supreme Court has ruled in favor of US drugmaker Eli Lilly in a patent dispute with generics producer Actavis, now owned by Israel’s Teva, over the cancer drug Alimta. The...

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UK Leads European Biotech Funding

01.06.2017 - A new report released by the UK BioIndustry Association (BIA) showed that the UK received the highest amount of biotech funding compared to anywhere else in Europe last year, and...