Keyword: cancer

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Ipsen Takes Merrimack’s Oncology Assets

12.01.2017 - French drugmaker Ipsen has signed a definitive agreement to buy the global oncology assets of US-based Merrimack Pharmaceuticals in a deal worth potentially more than $1 billion...

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Proteros Signs Second Oncology Collaboration with MSD

20.12.2016 - Proteros Biostructures has entered into a second research agreement with Merck Sharp & Dohme (known as MSD outside the US and Canada). The new collaboration is aimed at developing...

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UK Groups Plan Life Sciences Investment Firm

08.11.2016 - Cancer Research UK is aligning with the Wellcome Trust and investment groups Syncona and BACIT to create a new company with assets of up to £1 billion that will invest in life...

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Merck and Pfizer in Lung Pact With Debiopharm

25.10.2016 - Major drugmakers Merck KGaA of Germany and Pfizer of the US are collaborating with Debiopharm International, a drug developer based in Lausanne, Switzerland to study the potential...

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EU Clears Amgen’s Kyprolis Cancer Therapy

06.07.2016 - European regulators have approved the use of Amgen’s cancer drug Kyprolis in combination with just dexamethasone to treat certain adults with multiple myeloma, an incurable blood...

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NIH Won't Cut Price of Prostate Drug

29.06.2016 - The US federal government’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) has declined a petition from a public interest group to lower the price of a drug for advanced prostate cancer...

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EU approves Novartis Drug for More Cancers

06.06.2016 - The European Commission has granted approval for Novartis’ Afinitor (everolimus) for treating unresectable or metastatic, well-differentiated non-functional neuroendocrine tumors...

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Drugmakers Find Canine Cancer Candidate

04.05.2016 - An R&D collaboration between Dublin, Ireland-based Nexvet Biopharma, a veterinary biologics developer, and Japanese animal health company Zenoaqa claims to have found fully...