17.05.2010
- Astellas Pharma, Japan's No.2 drugmaker, seeks to buy at least 90% of shares in U.S. drugmaker OSI Pharmaceuticals with its tender offer, the company's chief executive said on...
12.05.2010
- Merck & Co plans to seek approval for five new medicines this year, including a closely watched hepatitis C treatment, but has halted development of an experimental anemia medicine...
05.05.2010
- Kathleen Jaeger, the chief lobbyist for the generic drugs industry during the debate over U.S. healthcare reform, is resigning as head of the Generic Pharmaceutical Association...
22.04.2010
- U.S. biotech company Codexis priced shares in its initial public offering at the bottom of the expected range on Wednesday in its second attempt to list its shares for public trade...
21.04.2010
- Intense competition amongst all end users is driving the European Manufacturing Execution System Market (MES). The end users from both process and discrete industries are going to...
14.04.2010
- Solving Challenges - Due to smaller production volumes, lines used to produce drugs for clinical trial operations have always had distinct needs in terms of processing equipment...
14.04.2010
- Status Update - Drug companies must prioritize education over marketing says Ruchi Mallya, pharmaceutical technology analyst at independent business analyst Ovum. Every industry is...
31.03.2010
- French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis on Wednesday said it would invest €150 million over four years to build up its biotechnology manufacturing capacities in France. The project aims at...
22.03.2010
- U.S. researchers have developed tiny nanoparticle robots that can travel through a patient's blood and into tumors where they deliver a therapy that turns off an important cancer...
19.03.2010
- Pfizer may still be eager to buy generic drugmakers, after being outbid for Germany's Ratiopharm in an effort to shore up revenue as it braces for evaporating sales of its...