24.02.2016
- Austrian biotech firm OncoQR ML has cleared an important hurdle toward producing a vaccine against pancreatic cancer. In a preclinical trial of what it termed “a highly relevant...
29.01.2016
- Time is money; this holds particularly true for drug research and development. The global pharmaceutical industry spends about $100 billion a year on R&D. Researchers are...
19.01.2016
- Cargologic, Swiss WorldCargo’s ground handling partner, obtained certification as a “Center of Excellence for Independent Validators” (CEIV) from IATA for the handling of...
13.01.2016
- Five major internationally active drugmakers, including American biotech firms Amgen and Celgene, along with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and non-US players such as Glaxo SmithKline...
07.01.2016
- In one of the rare stock launches of a German biotechnology company, industrial biotech firm Brain has announced plans to raise a double-digit sum through an initial public...
18.12.2015
- The third week of December was a busy one for AstraZeneca. Just days after the British-Swedish drugmaker confirmed talks with privately owned biotech Acerta Pharma about an...
15.12.2015
- AstraZeneca has confirmed speculation that it is “exploring potential strategic options” with Acerta Pharma, a privately owned biotech firm with operations in the Netherlands and...
09.12.2015
- Roche and SQZ Biotech are working together to develop a cell therapy platform that would empower patients’ own immune cells to fight a broad range of cancers. SQZ’s pioneering...
07.12.2015
- Spotlight Innovation, a venture capital-backed holding company specialized in identifying, acquiring and nurturing companies that have unique intellectual property in the medical...
12.11.2015
- DuPont Industrial Biosciences is paying $75 million to acquire the enzyme and technology assets of Dyadic, a financially struggling US biotech firm based at Jupiter, Florida. The...
