Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Merck’s Keytruda as a first cancer treatment for any solid tumor with a specific genetic feature.
Horizon Pharma has reached an agreement to sell a European subsidiary that owns the marketing rights to Procysbi (cysteamine bitartrate) delayed-release capsules and Quinsair (levofloxacin inhalation solution) in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions to Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A. (Chiesi) for an upfront payment of $70 million, with additional potential milestone payments based on sales targets.
Selexis SA and OSE Immunotherapeutics have signed a commercial license agreement that provides OSE Immunotherapeutics with access to high performance research cell banks (RCBs) from the Selexis SUREtechnology Platform.
Summit Therapeutics, the drug discovery and development company advancing therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (‘DMD’) and Clostridium difficile infection (‘CDI’), has appointed Dr David Roblin as Chief Medical Officer, Anne Heatherington, PhD, as Head of Clinical Development and Quantitative Sciences and Dave Powell, PhD, as Head of Research.
Boehringer Ingelheim has reported new analyses that provide further evidence that adding SPIRIVA RESPIMAT improved breathing across diverse patient populations who experience uncontrolled asthma symptoms despite the use of another daily maintenance therapy in the Phase III clinical development program.
Alexion Pharmaceuticals has announced big changes to its executive leadership team. Brian Goff is joining Alexion as Chief Commercial Officer, effective June 1, 2017.
Genomic Vision, a company specialized in the development of diagnostic tests (IVD) for the early detection of cancers and genetic diseases and applications for life sciences research (LSR), have entered into a technological collaboration with AstraZeneca in the field of targeting DNA damage response (DDR) for novel anti-cancer treatments strategy.
Zealand Pharma has reported positive results from a Phase 2a trial following administration of the multiple-dose version of dasiglucagon in adult patients with type 1 diabetes.
Biocartis Group, an innovative molecular diagnostics company, has launched of the Idylla NRAS Mutation Test.
SkinBioTherapeutics, a life science company focused on skin health, has agreed an eight month extension to its research contract with the University of Manchester to June 2018.