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Roche Links with Vividion on E3 Ligases

22.05.2020 - Roche has signed a worldwide option and license agreement with Vividion Therapeutics, gaining access to the latter’s proteomics screening platform and proprietary small molecule...

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Roche and Arrakis Link on RNA-targeted Drugs

15.04.2020 - Swiss drugmaker Roche has entered into a strategic collaboration and license agreement with US biopharma Arrakis Therapeutics for the discovery of RNA-targeted small molecule (rSM)...

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Roche Boosts Fibrotic Diseases with Promedior

21.02.2020 - Swiss pharma giant Roche has closed its acquisition of US clinical-stage biotech Promedior. Roche snapped up the Lexington, Massachusetts-based firm for an upfront cash payment of...

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Made in Switzerland – Exported Worldwide

06.12.2019 - The chemical, pharmaceutical and life sciences industries in Switzer­land — organized in the Scienceindustries trade association — account for 45% of total exports with around 70...

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Sanofi Buys Nonprescription Rights to Tamiflu

25.07.2019 - Under an exclusive deal with Roche, French drugmaker Sanofi has secured non-prescription rights to the Swiss pharmaceutical giant’s now off-patent influenza drug Tamiflu in the US...

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Roche Pays $4.3 Billion for Spark Therapeutics

28.02.2019 - Swiss drugs giant Roche has agreed to pay $4.3 billion for Spark Therapeutics, marking the latest purchase of a biotech company by big pharma. The deal gives Roche the first US...

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Gilead Nabs Roche Pharma Chief

11.12.2018 - Gilead Sciences has nabbed Daniel O’Day, head of Roche’s pharma business, as its new chief executive to replace current CEO John Milligan, with effective from March 2019. Both...

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FDA Greenlights Bayer-Loxo’s Vitrakvi

05.12.2018 - A new type of cancer treatment developed by a partnership of Bayer with biotech partner Loxo Oncology has won approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Vitrakvi is...