Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Merck KGaA and Pfizer have announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted avelumab, an investigational fully human anti-PD-L1 IgG1 monoclonal antibody, Fast Track designation for the treatment of metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), a rare and aggressive type of skin cancer.
Novartis has announced a new analysis from the phase III FREEDOMS and FREEDOMS II trials reinforcing the long-term efficacy profile of Gilenya (fingolimod).
Sanofi and its subsidiary Genzyme announced positive new five-year investigational data from the extension study of Lemtrada (alemtuzumab) for patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS).
A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota yesterday granted the U.S. Food and…
Eli Lilly and Company and Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Lilly, have announced financial commitment and continued scientific partnership to support the recently established Imaging Dementia – Evidence for Amyloid Scanning (IDEAS) Study.
Horizon Discovery Group plc, the international life science company supplying research tools and services that power genomics research and the development of personalised medicines, has announced that its leveraged business unit has signed a programme in-licensing and option agreement with Servier, the independent French research-based pharmaceutical company .
Sanofi and its subsidiary Genzyme announced have that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data from the Phase III TEMSO study demonstrate that Aubagio (teriflunomide) significantly slowed brain volume loss (or atrophy) vs. placebo over two years in people with relapsing multiple sclerosis (RMS).
AstraZeneca has announced the global completion of the divestment of Caprelsa (vandetanib), a rare disease medicine, to Genzyme, a Sanofi company.
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The recruitment of patients with ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome) for Serendex’s phase II clinical trial – GI HOPE – will begin in November 2015.