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Biotech firm Archemix strengthens alliances

Abraxis acquires rights to discovery platform

Galapagos sees profit drop on spend hike; inks AZ contract

Alzheimer's hits glaucoma between the eyes

ChanTest to expand ion-channel screening

 
   
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China declares $1.7bn drug safety investment

Viracept continues to spiral

Pharmaceutical manufacturing: people on the move

Cambrex profit rises despite flat sales

 
 

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Biotech firm Archemix strengthens alliances
Following Archemix' initial public offering (IPO) filing the company has announced two high profile strategic alliances aimed at leveraging its aptamer technology to a wider audience... Read


Abraxis acquires rights to discovery platform
Abraxis Bioscience has bought the worldwide rights to a discovery platform designed to generate new therapeutics and identify new drug targets that alter the p53 tumour suppressor signalling pathway... Read


Galapagos sees profit drop on spend hike; inks AZ contract
Galapagos has reported a profit erosion for the first half of 2007 amidst accelerated R&D spend and business reshuffling. Meanwhile its services division has inked its third contract with AstraZeneca... Read


Alzheimer's hits glaucoma between the eyes
UK researchers have published results linking the beta amyloid protein associated with Alzheimer's disease to glaucoma, opening up a much needed new target for glaucoma therapies... Read


ChanTest to expand ion-channel screening
ChanTest has received private equity financing by Ampersand Ventures to enable the company to expand its library of ion channel-expressing cell lines for drug screening... Read


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China declares $1.7bn drug safety investment
China has announced an initial $1.7bn investment to bolster its currently questionable ability to effectively monitor the quality of the food and drugs manufactured within its borders... Read


Viracept continues to spiral
The latest act in the Viracept (nelfinavir) debacle has seen Roche officially lose marketing authorisation for the HIV treatment, following reports of high levels of genotoxic contamination in the drug... Read


Pharmaceutical manufacturing: people on the move
Amgen, Watson Pharmaceuticals, Abbott, Sigma-Aldrich and BioCryst have all had people on the move in the world of pharmaceutical manufacturing... Read


Cambrex profit rises despite flat sales
Cambrex has recorded an increase in operating profit in its second quarter financial results despite flat sales... Read

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A US bankruptcy court judge ruled on Friday that Puerto Rican-based pharma services firm Inyx USA be put under the control of an independently-appointed trustee. Read



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Covance, Nanostream, launch new discovery services
Contract research organisation (CRO) Covance and laboratory services firm Nanostream have both recently launched new drug discovery offerings... Read


Entelos to develop liver injury model for the FDA
The search for better models to predict drug-induced human liver damage has led the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) to turn to Entelos to design a 'virtual liver' to guide biomarker and assay development... Read


Pfizer's GORD therapy enters the clinic
Pfizer has initiated a Phase I study for its gastro oesophageal reflux disease (GORD or GERD using the US spelling) therapy that it licensed from Kosan Biosciences, in a deal worth up to $250m (€181m)... Read


Asuragen moves ahead with microRNA offering
Asuragen has launched a newly expanded miRNA expression profiling service that can search over 13,000 human candidate miRNAs... Read


PharmaNet back in the red; lawsuit settled
PharmaNet has reported second quarter results that place it back in the red after it had only just clawed its way back into the black in the first quarter, following a string of quarterly losses... Read

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