15.09.2015
- Merck Serono, the biopharmaceutical arm of Germany’s Merck KGaA, has laid the cornerstone for a new €65 million laboratory at its Darmstadt headquarters. When completed in 2017...
10.09.2015
- UK drug cost-effectiveness agency National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, NICE, has approved the use of US drugmaker Merck’s Keytruda for treatment of certain cases of...
04.09.2015
- Around the globe, market conditions for chemical industry players remained volatile and challenging, corporate chieftains said unanimously in reporting on the second quarter and...
03.09.2015
- In September 2014, Merck announced the €13.1 billion acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich, which by mid-August has received antitrust clearance from all relevant jurisdictions including...
12.08.2015
- With the unconditional approval of Brazil's Council for Economic Defense (CADE), German chemicals and pharmaceuticals producer Merck KGaA has taken the final antitrust hurdle for...
05.08.2015
- In its second licensing agreement with a major pharmaceutical company, Codexis, a developer of biocatalysts for the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries, has agreed to...
05.08.2015
- German pharmaceuticals and chemicals group Merck KGaA has launched a program to encourage international start-ups in its business fields of healthcare, life sciences and...
14.07.2015
- Private equity investor Platform Specialty Products has offered around $2.3 billion, including debt, for all shares of UK-based Alent, a manufacturer of electronic chemicals...