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Novartis Settles US Fines Topping $1 Billion

Novartis has finally wrapped up a suite of bribery-related lawsuits in the US, paying well over $1 billion to settle two long running multifaceted cases within a week.

Catalent Supports Moderna on Covid-19 Vaccine

US-based CDMO Catalent has agreed a collaboration with US biotech Moderna for large-scale, commercial fill-finish manufacturing of Moderna’s mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate (mRNA-1273) at Catalent’s biologics facility in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

Bayer Agrees $9 Billion Roundup Settlement

After nearly a year of deliberation, Bayer has clinched a deal to settle three-quarters of its outstanding lawsuits from US plaintiffs who claim that Monsanto’s top-selling herbicide Roundup with the active ingredient glyphosate caused their non-Hodgkins lymphoma (NHL).

Top Management Changes at Ineos Styrolution

Steve Harrington, currently president Global Styrene Monomer and Asia-Pacific at Ineos Styrolution, has been appointed as the Germany-based styrenics manufacturer’s new CEO, succeeding Kevin McQuade, who has been named chairman of the company’s supervisory board.

Domo Chemical to Close BOPA Line at Leuna

Sanofi to Build Vaccine plant near Lyon

Dexamethasone With Potential to Treat Covid-19?

Ineos Among Bidders for Sasol Project Stake?

Germany Takes 23% stake in CureVac

FDA Withdraws Hydroxychloroquine EUA

UK Seen Likely to Abandon ECHA and REACH

Merck KGaA in Liquid Crystal Windows Deal

EPA Brushes Over Most of Court Dicamba Ruling

EPA Sued over Halt to Pollution Monitoring

Lancet Hydroxychloroquine Study Retracted

AstraZeneca Said Weighing Gilead Merger

Pierre-Alain Ruffieux new CEO of Lonza

Dow and Johnson Matthey Win China INA Deal

Europe Mulls Central Agency for Covid Vaccines

GSK to Make Adjuvants for Several Covid Vaccines

Contaminated Metformin Recalled in US

Covestro and Neste Link on Renewable PC Feed

Novartis Offshoot in Covid Vaccine Agreement

Germany again Wins Merck & Merck Lawsuit

Backlash against The Lancet’s Chloroquine Study

Corden Expands Pact with Moderna

BASF and Red Avenue Link on PBAT

WHO Halts Covid Trials with Chloroquine

Evonik Commissions US Pharma Biomaterials Plant

Merck & Co Wades into Covid Vaccine Race

Gilead Licensing Remdesivir Production

Air Products Extends Ghasemi’s contract to 2025

Bayer Seen in Verbal Roundup Settlements

GSK in Manufacturing Pact with Samsung Biologics

Borealis Drops PE Project in Kazakhstan