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Amgen to Buy Turkish Drugmaker for $700 mln

25.04.2012 - U.S. biotech company Amgen is to buy Turkey's Mustafa Nevzat Pharmaceuticals, a maker of injectable generic drugs, for around $700 million in a deal underscoring Western drugmakers...

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Amgen to Buy KAI Pharmaceuticals for $315 Million

10.04.2012 - Amgen said it will buy privately held KAI Pharmaceuticals for $315 million to gain access to an experimental treatment for a common complication suffered by chronic kidney disease...

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Amgen, Astra to Collaborate on Several Drugs

03.04.2012 - Amgen and British drugmaker AstraZeneca announced on Monday a major collaboration deal to jointly develop and sell five biotech drugs currently in Amgen's developmental pipeline...

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EU Agency Issues Guideline on Biosimilar MS Drugs

24.01.2012 - European regulators took another step towards opening the market for copies of biotech drugs on by releasing a draft guideline on how companies should test biosimilar medicines...

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Amgen Q2 Profit Down 3%

01.08.2011 - Biotechnology firm Amgen has reported a 3% decline in its second-quarter profit as higher operating expenses offset increased product sales. However, adjusted earnings per share...

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Amgen Settles G-CSF Patent Litigation with Teva

19.07.2011 - Amgen announced that the United States District Court in Pennsylvania has entered final judgment and a permanent injunction against Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and Teva...

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The World Of Biosimilars

30.05.2011 - Doubled-Edged Sword - The emergence of biosimilars has caused very large ripples in the biopharma pond, and has recently been called the most "disruptive technology" of the decade...

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Biosimilars Seen as a $3.7 billion Drug Market by 2015

29.03.2011 - The worldwide market for copies of biotech medicines will grow to $3.7 billion by 2015, from just $243 million in 2010, as a raft of branded drugs lose patent cover, according to...