17.01.2011
- Outgoing ThyssenKrupp finance chief Alan Hippe will take up the same position at Roche Holding, replacing Erich Hunziker as the Swiss drugmaker implements cost cuts after a series...
11.01.2011
- Novartis advanced its bid to copies Roche's multi-billion dollar antibody drug rituximab on Monday, starting phase II trials for its own version of the blockbuster medicine. Drugs...
07.01.2011
- Bristol-Myers Squibb's growth should beat that of pharmaceutical rivals after 2015 as new drugs revive its earnings, the drugmaker's chief executive said on Thursday. Lamberto...
06.12.2010
- Roche Holding Chief Executive Severin Schwan believes the survivors in the pharmaceuticals sector will be large generic drugmakers, and companies who make innovative new products...
22.11.2010
- Swiss drugmaker Novartis has no plans to cut thousands of jobs, a spokesman for the company said on Sunday, rebutting a Swiss newspaper report. Sunday newspaper Sonntag said...
17.11.2010
- European regulators are expected to adopt a conservative stance this week when they set rules for allowing copies of antibody drugs, used to fight cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and...
16.11.2010
- U.S. federal judges upheld patents on major drugs marketed by Bristol-Myers Squibb and Eli Lilly and in rulings that would keep generic versions out of the United States for...
02.08.2010
- Chances are, every big pharmaceutical company is running the numbers and weighing the pros and cons of acquiring Genzyme. French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis is poised to make a bid...