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Merck Veteran Named R&D Chief, After Drug Setbacks

08.03.2013 - Merck & Co will bring back one of its veterans to head research and development, replacing retiring Peter Kim, who leaves behind a mixed record over the past decade at the...

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Ashland to Expand Pharmaceutical Center of Excellence in Delaware

06.03.2013 - Ashland today announced plans to expand its pharmaceutical research and development Center of Excellence at the Ashland Research Center in Wilmington. Ashland will be expanding its...

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GlaxoSmithKline Unit Joins Patent Pool for AIDS Drugs

27.02.2013 - GlaxoSmithKline's HIV/AIDS drugs business is to share intellectual property rights on children's medicine in a patent pool designed to make treatments more widely available in poor...

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Slow Approvals Put India's Drug Trials Industry at Risk

13.02.2013 - Slower government approval for testing new medicines is threatening India's aspirations to be a fast-growing, low-cost hub for clinical trials, and has prompted some drugs firms to...

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Regeneron Says Sanofi to Boost Stake in its Shares

11.02.2013 - Regeneron Pharmaceuticals said its longtime drug-development partner Sanofi aims to boost its stake in the U.S. biotechnology company through open market purchases of its stock...

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Amgen Biosimilar Push Takes Aim at Blockbusters

07.02.2013 - Amgen said it expects generic versions of biotech drugs, known as biosimilars, to be a multibillion-dollar opportunity for the company and has targeted some of the industry's...

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Drugmakers, Academics Pool R&D in $265 Million EU Project

07.02.2013 - Seven European drugmakers are to pool their research efforts with academic scientists and smaller companies in a new €196 million ($265 million) project designed to find tomorrow's...

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Revived Search for a TB Vaccine May Be About to Pay Off

01.02.2013 - After nearly 100 years, researchers could be on the verge of finding a vaccine that would eradicate tuberculosis infections, a scourge that kills 1.4 million people a year. Global...