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DCAT Announces New Board of Directors

02.11.2018 - Paolo Magri, senior vice president, business development at Advitech, has been elected president of the Drug, Chemical & Associated Technologies Association (DCAT). Also elected to...

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Forward Pharma Loses Patent Appeal Against Biogen

31.10.2018 - A US federal appeals court has rejected an appeal by Danish biopharma Forward Pharma against the validity of Biogen’s patent for blockbuster multiple sclerosis (MS) drug Tecfidera...

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Sanofi May Move Rare Disease to Boston Area

22.10.2018 - French drugmaker Sanofi is planning to deepen the rare diseases footprint of its Genzyme franchise at Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, where according to reports the business could...

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Biogen/Samsung Bioepis End Patent Dispute with AbbVie

10.04.2018 - Biogen and partner Samsung Bioepis have reached agreement with AbbVie regarding the commercialization of Imraldi, their biosimilar form of the latter’s blockbuster Humira. Specific...

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Biogen Licenses Remedy’s Stroke Drug

19.05.2017 - Biogen has licensed a late-stage stroke drug from Remedy Pharmaceuticals. The US biotech will make an upfront payment of $120 million for Cirara (intravenous glyburide), as well as...

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Biogen Alzheimer’s Drug Accepted for EMA PRIME

03.06.2016 - Biogen’s investigational treatment for early Alzheimer’s disease (AD), aducanumab, has been accepted into the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) PRIority MEdicines (PRIME) program...

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Biogen to Spin off Hemophilia business

20.05.2016 - US biotechnology company Biogen is to spin off its hemophilia business into an independent, publicly traded business. Biogen said it believes the creation of two separate companies...

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Pharma Majors Join Parkinson’s Initiative

24.02.2016 - Major drugs firms AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Eli Lilly are among seven of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies that have joined a new consortium to improve clinical trials for...