25.09.2015
- Following the green light from health regulator European Medicines Agency, the European Commission is expected to decide on a final approval for GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) injectable...
10.09.2015
- UK drug cost-effectiveness agency National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, NICE, has approved the use of US drugmaker Merck’s Keytruda for treatment of certain cases of...
20.08.2015
- Swiss drugmaker Roche has signed an agreement to acquire Kapa Biosystems, a provider of genomic tools in the life sciences sector that uses proprietary technologies to optimize...
22.07.2015
- US drugmaker Pfizer has more collaborations with British universities than any other foreign company, according to the newly published Dowling Review conducted by Ann Dowling...
13.03.2015
- Both European and US pharmaceutical industry players are highly research-oriented and possess very diversified portfolios. While each country has its national champions, Swiss...
09.02.2015
- Welsh start-up biotech company Cell Therapy, whose board of directors includes a former UK trade minister, has raised £691,000 through a crowd funding effort it claims is the...
22.12.2014
- Swiss pharmaceutical producer group Roche said it would discontinue a late-stage study of investigational anti-amyloid medicine gantenerumab in pre-dementia Alzheimer's disease...
16.12.2014
- Bayer has failed in the last round of its effort to block the sale of a cheap generic version of its cancer drug Nexavar in India. In a Dec. 12 decision, the country's Supreme...