01.03.2017
- In the course of only a week, the US Food and Drug Administration FDA) has accepted the second Biologics License Application (BLA) for priority review. In the latest case, the...
31.01.2017
- US company Barr Laboratories, a subsidiary of Israeli drugmaker Teva, has reached a $225 million settlement in an antitrust class action that accused Teva of keeping a generic...
19.01.2017
- German pharmaceuticals, chemicals and life sciences company Merck KGaA has opened a new plant in Mollet des Vallès, Spain dedicated solely to the manufacture of meglumine, an FDA...
16.01.2017
- UK-based Silence Therapeutics has acquired an 8.4% equity stake in US biotech group Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals to potentially advance progress in novel RNA therapeutics. Silence...
06.01.2017
- Pharmaceutical companies paid twice as much for acquisitions in 2016 than a year earlier, according to an analysis of the 316 drugs-sector deals of the past three years carried out...
05.01.2017
- French drugmaker Sanofi and German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim have completed their business swap, which sees Sanofi take Boehringer’s consumer healthcare (CHC)...
24.11.2016
- Irish drugmaker Allergan has beefed up its pipeline for neurodegenerative disorders with the acquisition of US-based Chase Pharmaceuticals. Under the terms of the deal, Allergan...
03.11.2016
- Roche Pharmaceuticals Asia Pacific has appointed Dr. Christiane Hamacher as Head of Asia Pacific (APAC). She succeeds Alexander Hardy who was appointed Head of Global Product...