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27 August 2010

Belgian antibody firm Ablynx has completed its secondary public offering, raising €50 million through the sale of just under 6.7 million new shares at €7.50 each. An over-allotment option of up to 400,000 shares worth €3 million in total will be covered by lending shareholders selling...

 
Pfizer has reiterated its commitment to developing an orphan and rare diseases franchise by acquiring the private US company FoldRx Pharmaceuticals. The two ...
The US agency that runs Medicare – the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) - has scheduled a 17 November advisory panel meeting to consider ...
Ono Pharmaceutical has acquired exclusive development and commercialisation rights in Japan to Concordia Pharmaceuticals' direct Ras inhibitor salirasib, which ...
Addex has announced plans to move an mGluR2 antagonist into Phase I trials for Alzheimer's disease (AD) in around a year. "We are currently in late-stage ...
 
Index appoints Johnson partner
02 September 2010
Index Ventures, the global high tech venture capitalist, has appointed Dr Kevin Johnson as a life sciences partner to enhance its push into developing asset-centric investment strategy. Dr Johnson, ...
Celator Pharmaceuticals has raised $20 million in a series D round led by new investor Thomas, McNerney & Partners. Alex Zisson , a partner at the venture capital firm, will join Celator's ...
Two Scottish university spin-out companies, ImmunoSolv and Grampian BioConsultants (GBC), have merged to combine their expertise in immunology and immuno-technology to avoid becoming a "one-trick ...
The small UK biotechnology firm Henderson Morley has filed a notice of intention to call in the administrators following its failure to secure the divestment of its ICVT (Ionic Contra Viral Therapy) ...
 
ThromboGenic's microplasmin met its primary endpoint – resolution of vitromacular adhesion (VMA) – in patients with the eye disease. The study results, presented at the American Society of Retina ...
Roche's Japanese subsidiary, Chugai , has made an approval filing for Xeloda (capecitabine) for the treatment of advanced or refractory gastric cancer in patients who are not candidates for curative ...
The Japanese government is to provide a multi-million dollar subsidy to the country's largest pharma company for the development of cell cultured vaccines for pandemic influenza. Following an ...
Bristol-Myers Squibb's apixaban beat aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) for the prevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients at high-risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) who were unable to take ...
 
Indian physicians who were involved in the controversial "superbug" NDM-1 study that was published in Lancet Infectious Diseases last month have been asked to confirm whether they followed various ...
A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court ruling that Lilly's method-of-use patents for its osteoporosis drug Evista (raloxifene) are valid until 2014, blocking an attempt by Teva ...
New Zealand expects to save NZ$24 million ($17.1 million) over the next five years following price reductions for certain antipsychotic drugs, said Pharmac , the country's pharmaceutical management ...
SÚKL , the Czech State Institute for Drug Control, has issued a list of medicines that might be subject to a 31 December 2010 sunset clause that will invalidate their marketing authorisations based ...
 
New appointment at King Pharmaceuticals King Pharmaceuticals (US) has appointed Jeffrey Bailey chief commercial officer. He will be ...
One Nucleus appoints new director One Nucleus, a UK-based not-for-profit membership organisation for international life science and ...
New COO at Millennium Laboratories Millennium Laboratories (US), a provider of therapeutic drug monitoring and education to physicians ...

Taiwan's efforts to reform its financially struggling national health insurance (NHI) scheme go ...

ObamaCare: Here comes change
30 July 2010

President Barack Obama's commitment to health reform was unmistakeable in February 2009, when he ...

ObamaCare: World's largest pharma market to get bigger still
23 July 2010

Pharma companies stand to benefit from significant growth in their customer base. Other changes in ...

ObamaCare: The stuff of dreams
23 July 2010

Assessing the impact of the reform on pharma is a cost-benefit exercise. The industry will have to ...

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Private investment round-up: December 2009
06 January 2010
Simon Varcoe
The private investment market ended 2009 on a high, with 14 pharmaceutical and biotech companies ...

Logos are said to be an important part of an organisation's branding. Really good logos contribute ...

Actelion this week acquired the option to buy private company Trophos, with the final decision ...

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