29.05.2013
- BASF and Sinopec are considering the extension of their Nanjing joint venture BASF-YPC with the expansion of existing ethylene oxide (EO) production, and a new plant for...
24.05.2013
- OPX Biotechnologies and Evonik Industries today announced the two companies have entered into an agreement to jointly develop certain bio-based specialty chemicals. The joint...
22.05.2013
- The U.S. government has signed an antibiotics development deal worth up to $200 million with GlaxoSmithKline to tackle the dual threats of drug resistance and bioterrorism. The...
14.05.2013
- Aesica, the global contract manufacturing organisation (CMO), announces a partnership with the University of Nottingham for the commercial development of alternative methods in...
07.05.2013
- Belgium's Solvay took a first step towards casting off its PVC business by agreeing a joint venture with privately-hold Ineos, which will ultimately take full control of the unit...
03.05.2013
- Is nanomedicine the next big thing? A growing number of top drug companies seem to think so. The ability to encapsulate potent drugs in tiny particles measuring billionths of a...
29.04.2013
- Pfizer and Merck & Co said they will co-develop Pfizer's experimental type 2 diabetes drug ertugliflozin, both as a standalone product and in combination with other drugs...
22.04.2013
- AstraZeneca is to pay privately held Bind Therapeutics as much as $200 million to develop a cancer medicine using the U.S. biotech company's nanotechnology drug delivery system...