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Merck Serono in Spanish Drug Development Pact

23.12.2013 - Merck Serono, the biopharmaceuticals division of Germany's Merck KGaA, has signed a global license agreement with the Spanish National Research Center (CNIO) in Madrid on cancer...

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Consumer Health Division of Merck KGaA in Turnaround

06.12.2013 - The Consumer Health division of Merck KGaA has made "substantial progress" in raising profitability levels to those of other global over-the-counter drug competitors, the company...

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Merck KGaA Offers $2.6 Billion for AZ Electronic Materials

05.12.2013 - Merck, the world's largest maker of liquid crystals for flat panel displays, said it had agreed to buy Britain's AZ Electronic Materials for 1.6 billion pounds ($2.61 billion) in...

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Merck KGaA to Build New Pharma Plant in China

28.11.2013 - German chemicals and pharmaceuticals producer Merck KGaA plans to invest €80 million in a new pharmaceutical plant in the Nantong Economical Technological Development Area of...

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Germany’s Merck Adds Israeli R&D Partners

27.11.2013 - German chemicals and pharmaceutical group Merck KGaA has added two new partners, the newly created Metabomed and the start-up ChanBio, to its €10 million Merck Serono Israel...

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Merck Serono and Selvita in Oncology R&D Pact

28.10.2013 - Merck Serono, the biopharmaceuticals arm of Germany's Merck KGaA, has agreed an oncology research pact with Polish biotech company Selvita. The aim of the collaboration is to...

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Roche to Spend $880 Million on Manufacturing, Create 500 Jobs

14.10.2013 - Swiss drug maker Roche is to invest 800 million Swiss francs ($880 million) in its global manufacturing facilities over the next five years, creating 500 jobs, as it prepares for...

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Germany's Merck Sees Long-Term Growth in Cancer Drug Erbitux

07.10.2013 - German healthcare company Merck expects to get a long-term boost from study results in June that showed its main cancer drug Erbitux has an edge over rival product Avastin. Erbitux...