Keyword: R&D

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Allergan and Editas Medicine in Eye Disease Pact

20.03.2017 - Allergan has secured exclusive access to Editas Medicine’s genome-editing ocular programs under a strategic research and development agreement. The deal covers early stage, first...

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Envigo Creates Non-animal Cardiac Tests

17.03.2017 - UK contract research organization Envigo has announced it will develop and internally validate five to seven ion channel in vitro tests for measuring cardiac risk potential. The...

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BASF Inaugurates Indian Innovation Campus

14.03.2017 - BASF has inaugurated its new Innovation Campus Asia Pacific in Mumbai, India its largest R&D investment in South Asia to date. The €50 million investment is said to “significantly...

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Lianhetech Enters Europe with Fine Industries Buy

07.03.2017 - Chinese life sciences company Lianhe Chemical Technology (Lianhetech) has gained its first base in Europe after agreeing to buy UK-based chemical manufacturer Fine Industries in a...

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MEPs Take on EU Drug Pricing

06.03.2017 - At a plenary session last week, the European Parliament (EP) discussed the trend toward rising drug prices in the EU over the past few decades and drafted proposals for dealing...

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Cancer Research UK and HitGen in Pact

03.03.2017 - Cancer Research UK, its commercial arm Cancer Research Technology (CRT) and Chinese life science company HitGen have entered into a license agreement to develop a novel class of...

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FDA Accepts Merck-Pfizer Biologics Application

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...

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Confidence in Agriculture Mergers Solidifies

23.02.2017 - The first of the three mega mergers affecting mainly the global agrochemicals sector, the $130 billion link-up of Dow Chemical and DuPont, could win EU approval soon, the news...