18.01.2016
- French authorities are investigating a Phase I clinical trial in Rennes that led to the death of one volunteer and left five others (all male) in serious or critical condition...
14.01.2016
- French drugmaker Sanofi has simultaneously announced collaborations with two biotechnology firms, together worth up to €1.2 billion. The first link-up, worth $750 million (€690...
12.01.2016
- Globally, mergers and acquisitions at a value of USD 372 billion were recorded in the chemical and pharmaceutical sector in 2015. This amounts to an increase of 74% compared with...
11.01.2016
- Sanofi has handed back rights to the inhaled insulin treatment Afrezza to US drug development company MannKind. Sales of Afrezza, which launched in the US in February last year...
23.12.2015
- Bayer is likely to seek a major life sciences M&A deal in the next few years, banking sources have told the news agency Reuters. The German group’s absence from a recent wave of...
16.12.2015
- French drugmaker Sanofi and German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim have begun exclusive negotiations toward a swap of Sanofi’s subsidiary Merial, a manufacturer of...
15.12.2015
- Mexico has granted marketing authorization to Sanofi Pasteur for its dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia. The vaccine is the world’s first to be approved for preventing the disease which is...
30.11.2015
- Drugs firms AstraZeneca and Sanofi are to exchange 210,000 compounds from their libraries to help boost their search for new small-molecule medicines. The companies have selected...
16.11.2015
- Mylan’s seven month-long, $26 billion long-shot hostile bid for Perrigo has ended in defeat for the Netherlands-based drugmaker. By the target deadline of Friday, Nov. 13, only 40%...
13.11.2015
- French drugmaker Sanofi has entered into two separate collaborations to develop and commercialize diabetes treatments. An agreement with US-based Lexicon Pharmaceuticals centers on...
