Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
The European Medicines Agency has had expressions of interest to host the London-based regulator from 21 of the 27 countries that will form the European Union once Britain leaves, revealing rivalry from Amsterdam to Zagreb for a prized institution.
Akers Biosciences, a developer of rapid health information technologies, has begun marketing its rapid test for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (“HIT”) to the large number of hospital facilities in Puerto Rico as an extension of the company’s strategy to accelerate U.S. sales of its flagship product.
After receiving and analyzing legally binding transaction offers from two consortia for a public tender offer for all outstanding shares, Stada’s Executive and Supervisory Board has reached the conclusion to support the bid by Bain Capital and Cinven.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved supplemental indications for Gilead Sciences’s Harvoni (ledipasvir 90 mg/sofosbuvir 400 mg) tablets and Sovaldi (sofosbuvir 400 mg) tablets for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in adolescents without cirrhosis or with compensated cirrhosis, 12 years of age and older, or weighing at least 35kg.
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There are few drugs available for the treatment of the disease, and those currently available have generally poor tolerability. As a result, CTCL patients and their physicians require safe and effective new treatment options, said Dr Richard Bethell, Medivir’s Chief Scientific Officer.
Probiodrug, a Germany-based biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutic solutions to treat Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative disorders, has reported that Last Patient’s Last Visit (LPLV) occurred on 05 April 2017 in the currently running Phase 2a SAPHIR study investigating the QC-inhibitor PQ912 in patients with early AD.
Novartis said Thursday it has exercised an option to in-license ECF843 for ophthalmic indications worldwide excepot of Europe, without revealing financial and other terms of this transaction.
Zavante Therapeutics’ investigational product candidate, Zolyd (fosfomycin for injection, also known as ZTI-01), met the primary endpoint of statistical non-inferiority to piperacillin/tazobactam.
e-Therapeutics, the drug discovery company, announced Thursday that Dr. Raymond Barlow has assumed his position as Chief Executive Officer.