Keyword: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

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AstraZeneca Shareholders Target CEO Pay

16.03.2016 - AstraZeneca shareholders are said to be questioning the £8.4 million pay package awarded to CEO executive Pascal Soriot last year after he successfully deflected a hostile bid from...

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GSK Ends Cancer Deal With Five Prime

15.03.2016 - British drugmaker Glaxo SmithKline (GSK) has pulled out of a five-year deal with US biotechnology company Five Prime to develop experimental cancer drug FP-1039. Buried in Five...

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Search to Replace GSK Chief Said Underway

01.03.2016 - British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline is said to have launched a search for a new CEO to replace Andrew Witty, who is now widely expected to step down at the latest by the end of 2017...

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GSK Fined for Blocking Copies of Seroxat

15.02.2016 - Major UK drugs firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been fined more than £37 million by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for anti-competitive behavior relating to generic...

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GSK Chief Says UK “Better in EU”

05.02.2016 - Glaxo SmithKline CEO Andrew Witty has become the first pharmaceutical or chemical company executive to come out in favor of the UK remaining in the EU, although business leaders in...

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J&J and GSK Join Medicxi Ventures

05.02.2016 - Major drugs companies Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have become partners in a €210 million life sciences venture capital fund. Both groups will each contribute...

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Industry and Universities Combine to Create Apollo Therapeutics Fund

28.01.2016 - Three major drugs companies have joined forces with three leading UK universities to translate ground-breaking academic science into new medicines for a broad range of diseases...

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GAVI and US Merck Link on Ebola Vaccine

27.01.2016 - Geneva, Switzerland-based GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization), a public-private partnership, and Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), known in the US as Merck & Co, have...