08.02.2017
- Erez Vigodman and the board of Israel’s Teva Pharmaceutical Industries – the world’s largest generics drugmaker – have announced that the chief executive, who has led the company...
01.02.2017
- In a meeting at the White House on Jan. 31, new US president, Donald Trump, held out both a carrot and a stick to pharmaceutical producers. The industry will “have to “get prices...
13.01.2017
- American drugmakers, who had hoped US President-Elect Donald Trump would go easier on the industry than Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders had promised to do, received an...
22.08.2016
- Pfizer has won the race for biotech firm Medivation. The US drugs giant has agreed to pay about $14 billion in a move that adds leading prostate cancer drug Xtandi to its portfolio...
21.07.2016
- Celgene and Jounce Therapeutics are collaborating to develop and commercialize immuno-oncology treatments. The deal gives Celgene options on Jounce’s lead product candidate...
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...
07.10.2015
- The pharmaceutical industry is entering a period of sustained growth. Prescription drug sales are set to advance at almost 5% a year until 2020, while worldwide prescription drug...
17.07.2015
- US biotech firm Celgene has agreed to pay $7.2 billion, or $232 per share, to acquire compatriot Receptos, a biotech company that makes a potential blockbuster drug to treat...
