Keyword: R&D

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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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Purac to Acquire Bird Engineering

07.03.2013 - Purac, a subsidiary of CSM, announces today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Bird Engineering, the Netherlands. The acquisition will include the intellectual...

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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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BASF to Open R&D Center for Battery Materials in Japan

27.02.2013 - BASF will open a new Research and Development Laboratory and an Application Technology Center for Battery Materials in Amagasaki, Japan. The facilities will be fully operational by...

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Lonza Awarded Contract to Generate Research Grade iPSCs

20.02.2013 - The National Institutes of Health Center for Regenerative Medicine (NIH CRM) has awarded Lonza Walkersville a contract to generate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for...

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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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Novozymes Biopharma Announces Research Agreement with EpiVax

12.02.2013 - Novozymes Biopharma today announced a collaborative research agreement with Rhode Island-based biotech company EpiVax, to help further the development of a treatment for autoimmune...