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Lilly to cut 3,500 jobs by Year-end

12.09.2017 - US pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly has announced it will slash 3,500 positions – about 8% of its global 42,000-strong workforce up to the end of 2017. The cuts, part of a scheme to...

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Eli Lilly and Nektar Develop Autoimmune Therapy

31.07.2017 - US pharma companies Eli Lilly and Nektar Therapeutics have signed an agreement to jointly develop the latter’s novel immunotherapy, NKTR-358, which could potentially treat a number...

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UK Supreme Court Upholds Lily Alimta Patent

14.07.2017 - The UK Supreme Court has ruled in favor of US drugmaker Eli Lilly in a patent dispute with generics producer Actavis, now owned by Israel’s Teva, over the cancer drug Alimta. The...

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Drug Patent Losses Worth Billions Seen in 2017

03.05.2017 - Major pharmaceutical producers threaten to lose $26.5 billion in annual sales this year, as 18 branded drugs are due to expire, analysts for investment bank Bernstein said in a...

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Pharma Chiefs Call for Decision on EMA

25.04.2017 - Pharma chiefs are urging European heads of state to decide sooner rather than later on the new location for the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which is due to leave the UK as a...

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Lilly to Invest $850 Million in US Operations

05.04.2017 - US drugmaker Eli Lilly has announced plans to invest $850 million in its US operations during 2017, including an $85 million expansion of its Trulicity (dulaglutide) device...

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FDA Approves Novartis Breast Cancer Drug

22.03.2017 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Novartis’ new drug Kisqali (ribociclib) as an initial treatment for postmenopausal women with a type of metastatic breast...

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US Drugmakers Urge Tax Code Reform

24.02.2017 - In a letter to the leadership of the US Congress, 16 CEOs of major American companies, including Pfizer’s Ian Read, Eli Lilly’s David Ricks, Merck & Co’s Ken Frazier and Celgene’s...