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07.03.2024 • News

AstraZeneca Plans £650 Million Investment in UK

AstraZeneca, whose CEO Pascal Soriot has been critical of the UK business environment for the life sciences industry in the past, wants to invest a large sum at its homebase. On Mar. 6, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced that the pharma giant plans to invest £650 million in the UK.

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08.02.2024 • News

AstraZeneca to Construct New US Cell Therapy Facility

In a move to launch its cell therapy platforms for critical cancer trials in the US, AstraZeneca is investing $300 million in a new facility in Rockville, Maryland. The site will initially focus on the production of T-cell therapies, with the possibility of supporting other disease areas in the future.

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14.12.2023 • News

AstraZeneca to Buy Vaccine Company Icosavax for $1.1 Billion

AstraZeneca has entered into an agreement to acquire Icosavax, a US biopharmaceutical company based in Seattle in a deal worth up to $1.1 billion. The company focuses on the development of differentiated vaccines with high potential using an innovative virus-like protein (VLP) particle platform.

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02.11.2023 • News

AstraZeneca Invests $245 Million in French Biotech Cellectis

Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca entered into a collaboration and investment agreement with Cellectis, a French clinical-stage biotechnology company, to accelerate the development of therapeutics across oncology, immunology and rare diseases.

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24.10.2023 • News

AstraZeneca Granted Global Starmap AI License for Nanoform

Nanoform, a nanoparticle medical technology company, has awarded AstraZeneca a global online STARMAP license. STARMAP is an AI-based digital rendition of CESS technology, facilitating in-silico experiments for selecting molecules to be nanoformed. This license enables AstraZeneca to screen molecules during the entire drug development process.

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02.10.2023 • News

AstraZeneca, SAS Team up on AI and Analytics in Clinical Trials

AI and analytics software company SAS is collaborating with global biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to increase efficiency and drive automation in the delivery of statistical analyses for clinical and post-approval submissions to regulatory authorities.

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17.05.2023 • NewsStrategy

Navigating Uncertainty in the Biopharma Market

Biopharma companies are facing funding challenges in 2023 as interest rates rise and investors are becoming more risk adverse. There is hope on the horizon, say some analysts, while others project a prolonged slump due to inflation and global instability. Established pharmaceutical companies are often seen as safer investments, with larger developers expected to perform well in 2023, especially if litigation threats against drugs like Zantac disappear. However, concerns about revenue gaps continue for big companies like GSK and Sanofi, and their strategy and leadership will be closely monitored in the coming months.

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31.03.2023 • News

UK Health Records Underpin Vaxzevria Concerns

An analysis of British records for December 2020-May 2022 is said to show that young women aged 12-29 who received at least one dose of AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine may have been more likely to die of a heart problem. However, the findings may not apply to the entire population.

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21.03.2023 • News

Global Pharma Reduces Marketing Staff in India

As part of what seems to be a general pattern of staff reductions in the pharmaceutical industry worldwide, a growing number of Western drugmakers are downsizing their sales and marketing presence in India.

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17.02.2023 • News

Aristea Halts Clinical Trial, Dissolves Company

Safety findings in Phase 2 clinical trials have forced Aristea Therapeutics to stop developing its lead candidate RIST4721 for treating serious immune-mediated inflammatory diseases. As a consequence, Aristea’s management has decided to dissolve the company.

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08.02.2023 • News

Amgen-Horizon Deal under Intense Scrutiny

Amgen’s proposed acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics for $28.7 billion, including debt, would be the largest healthcare deal since AstraZeneca’s $39 billion purchase of Alexion in 2021, if it goes ahead. As such, it is under intense scrutiny.

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12.01.2023 • News

AstraZeneca Buys CinCor Pharma

AstraZeneca has entered into an agreement to buy CinCor Pharma, a US-based clinical-stage biopharma focused on developing novel treatments for resistant and uncontrolled hypertension as well as chronic kidney disease.

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07.12.2022 • News

AstraZeneca Sells US Site to National Resilience

Two weeks after annnouncing that it would no longer seek to market its Covid-19 vaccine in the US, Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca has unveiled plans to sell its production site at West Chester, Ohio, to privately-held biomanufacturing company National Resilience.

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01.12.2022 • News

AstraZeneca Boosts Cancer Portfolio with Neogene Buy

AstraZeneca has agreed to acquire Neogene Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development and manufacture of next-generation T-cell receptor therapies (TCR-Ts) – a promising and novel cell therapy approach to target cancer.

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08.11.2022 • News

Pharma CEOs Take Action on Climate Change

The CEOs of seven multinational pharmaceutical companies have announced that they are taking joint action to achieve near-term emissions reduction targets and accelerate the delivery of net zero health systems.

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20.10.2022 • News

EU Public Prosecutor Probes Vaccine Mega Order

The European Public Prosecutors Office (EPPO) has confirmed that it is looking into the EU Commission’s ordering of Covid-19 vaccines, with the probe thought to pertain in particular to order activity outside the usual purchasing channels.

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30.09.2022 • News

GSK Names Julie Brown as First Female CFO

From next year, GSK’s top management will be led by a double female team, a pioneering move for the global pharmaceutical industry. The UK drugs giant this week announced the appointment of Julie Brown, the first woman to be its chief financial officer.

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13.05.2022 • News

FDA Restricts Use of J&J Covid Vaccine

US health authorities are restricting the use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine somewhat belatedly, citing the rare blood clotting issues that have dogged this vaccine from the start, as well as the AstraZeneca shot.

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19.04.2022 • NewsChemistry

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21.03.2022 • News

BMS Sues Astra Zeneca in Cancer Drug Patent Row

Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) is suing AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, alleging that the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker’ Imfinzi to treat lung and bladder cancer infringes several patents related to its blockbuster Opdivo.

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17.02.2022 • News

Short Shelf-life of Donated Covid Vaccines Raises Hackles

With Covid-19 vaccine distribution in poor countries showing no signs of improvement, Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca and the Covax vaccine sharing program have come fire. The relatively short shelf-life of the pharma group’s viral vector-based shot Vaxzevria in particular is complicating the worldwide rollout, Reuters reports, citing World Health Organization (WHO) documents.

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