06.01.2017
- Ireland-headquartered drugmaker Shire Pharmaceuticals has sold its messenger RNA (mRNA) therapy platform MRT to US firm RaNA Therapeutics. Financial details were not revealed, but...
04.01.2017
- French isocyanates producer Vencorex, a joint venture between Thailand’s PTT Global Chemical with 51% and Sweden’s Perstorp with 49%, has announced the completion of several...
04.01.2017
- Sanofi Pasteur, the global vaccines business unit of French drugmaker Sanofi, and Merck, Sharp and Dohme, international arm of US drugmaker Merck. have ended their vaccine joint...
29.12.2016
- US healthcare company Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is negotiating a deal to acquire Actelion that would see its commercial portfolio separated from its R&D assets, according to news...
19.12.2016
- Major US drugmaker Pfizer will use IBM Watson Health’s artificial intelligence technology to help in its efforts to find new cancer medicines. The deal will use the Watson for Drug...
14.12.2016
- The supervisory board of Austria’s Lenzing has approved plans to build a Tencel fiber plant in the US. The news follows two previously announced expansion projects as the group...
14.12.2016
- Japanese coatings company Kansai Paint has boosted its presence in Europe with the purchase of Slovenia’s Helios Coatings Group. The two companies signed a share purchase agreement...
13.12.2016
- Swiss fine chemicals producer and contract manufacturer Lonza has confirmed a “strong interest” in acquiring Capsugel, a Morristown, New Jersey, USA-based producer of capsules used...
