Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Allergan’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Allergan Sales LLC has acquired Keller Medical, a privately held medical device company and developer of the Keller Funnel.
AstraZeneca has signed an agreement with Grünenthal for the global rights to Zomig (zolmitriptan), the drug indicated for the acute treatment of migraines and cluster headaches, outside Japan.
Celgene Corporation and Agios Pharmaceuticals have reported new efficacy and safety data from the ongoing Phase 1 dose-escalation and expansion study evaluating investigational oral Idhifa (enasidenib) in patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (R/R AML) and an isocitrate dehydrogenase-2 (IDH2) mutation.
European Commission has granted marketing authorisation for Novo Nordisk’s Refixia for the treatment of adolescents and adults with haemophilia B.
World Health Organization (WHO) has updated Essential Medicines List with new advice on which antibiotics to use for common infections and which to preserve for the most serious circumstances is among the additions to the WHO Model list of essential medicines for 2017.
Bristol-Myers Squibb and Novartis have entered into a clinical research collaboration to investigate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of Opdivo (nivolumab) and Opdivo + Yervoy (ipilimumab) regimen in combination with Mekinist (trametinib), as a potential treatment option for metastatic colorectal cancer in patients with microsatellite stable tumors where the tumors are proficient in mismatch repair (MSS mCRC pMMR).
CTI BioPharma has announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 22,500 shares of its Series N-3 Preferred Stock, offered at a price to the public of $2,000 per share of Series N-3 Preferred Stock (the “Offering”).
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Alkermes’s two-month Aristada (aripiprazole lauroxil) extended-release injectable suspension for the treatment of schizophrenia.
European Commission (EC) has approved the inclusion of Treatment-free Remission (TFR) data in the Novartis’s Tasigna (nilotinib) Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC).
Bristol-Myers Squibb and QIAGEN have signed an agreement to explore the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology to develop gene expression profiles (GEPs) as predictive or prognostic tools for use with Bristol-Myers Squibb novel immuno-oncology (I-O) therapies in cancer treatment.