Pharmaceutical industry – Page 32
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Business
Standard antibody will bolster biopharma
New NIST reference material will help validate and compare analytical techniques
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Business
Amgen and Advaxis partner on immuno-oncology
Deal covers rights to system for building cancer therapies specific to a patient’s own tumours
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Business
Job cuts at Takeda, Boehringer and Arena
Hundreds of positions eliminated as companies re-evaluate R&D
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Celgene and Jounce team up against cancer
Firms promise next-generation immuno-oncology as existing drugs rack up successes
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Business
Juno CAR-T trial suspended after patient deaths
Immunotherapy study restarted with amended pre-treatment protocol
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Opinion
Time for better incentives to keep drug costs low
Getting outraged at drug price hikes is all very well, but we need more constructive options
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Business
All part of the service
Simon Hirst, founder of contract research organisation Sygnature, is the 2016 Chemistry World entrepreneur of the year
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Business
Unpicking doctor payments
Accepting even small meals from drug industry reps appears to influence doctors’ prescription rates
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Business
AstraZeneca licenses skin drugs to Leo
Offloading psoriasis and dermatitis antibodies continues AZ’s plan to refocus on fewer therapy areas
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Business
Novartis partners with Xencor for cancer antibodies
Deal deepens Novartis’s focus on immuno-oncology
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Business
Lies and deception see Astellas UK suspended by trade body
Company promoted drugs inappropriately and misled regulators in the resulting investigation
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Business
Sanofi and Boehringer agree €11bn asset swap
Deal swaps Sanofi’s animal health arm for Boehringer’s consumer healthcare business as both firms aim to boost scale
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Business
Harvard settles with ex-student over drug royalties
Student claimed university forced him to accept unfair cut in patent deal
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Business
Teva sells off products in preparation for Allergan merger
Generics deals with Impax, Dr Reddy’s and Sagent aimed at satisfying competition authorities
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Business
US biotech director accused of insider trading
Biostatistics chief at Akebia charged with securities fraud
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Business
Judge voids Merck & Co’s $200m patent claim
‘Serious misconduct’ kills case over Gilead’s hepatitis C drugs
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Business
Adventures of an accidental entrepreneur
India needs to break out of its colonial mindset and tap into its innovative potential, says Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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Business
Merck & Co to buy Afferent for neurology drugs
Deal worth up to $1.25bn includes drug candidate for chronic coughs
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Research
Connections in flow
MIT’s Klavs Jensen tells us how his research ranges in size from a chip, to a fridge to a shipping container