28.05.2020
- US pharma giant Merck & Co is wading into the race to find a vaccine or treatment for Covid-19. The New Jersey-based company is joining forces with nonprofit research group IAVI on...
27.05.2020
- Gilead Sciences has tapped five generic drugmakers as partners to further expand supplies of remdesivir, its drug now being trialed in the US as a Covid-19 treatment. Non-exclusive...
26.05.2020
- US industrial gases producer Air Products has extended the term of its chairman, president and chief executive officer, Seifi Ghasemi, through September 30, 2025. Ghasemi was first...
26.05.2020
- With potentially 125,000 US lawsuits from plaintiffs charging that Monsanto’s Roundup-branded herbicide caused their non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma believed to be pending, current brand...
25.05.2020
- GlaxoSmithKline has agreed an eight-year, $231 million, pact with South Korean CDMO Samsung Biologics to scale up manufacturing of biologics. The capacity Samsung provides will be...
22.05.2020
- Olefins and polyolefins giant Borealis said this week that it no longer plans to pursue development of an ethane cracker and world-scale polyethylene plant in Kazakhstan, a project...
22.05.2020
- The US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has added another illustrious European pharmaceutical industry player to the list of those whose resources it...
21.05.2020
- As lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) claiming its iconic baby powder causes cancer continue to mount, the US healthcare giant has announced plans to pull the talc-based...
