Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Another patent infringement against Teva has been filed in recent couple of months. Orexo AB has filed a patent infringement action in United States District Court for the District of Delaware against Actavis Elizabeth LLC, Actavis Pharma, Inc., and their parent company Teva.
Novo Nordisk’s executive vice president, head of North America Operations and president of Novo Nordisk Inc. Jakob Riis has resigned from the company, and will be replaced by senior vice president for Market Access, Doug Langa.
A research group from University College London’s (UCL’s) Centre for Rheumatology has been awarded a £3.5m grant from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to continue developing of a new treatment for anti-phospholipid syndrome (APS) which uses Abzena’s proprietary conjugation technology.
Euronext-listed Genticel and a privately-held Swiss GenKyoTex biopharmaceutical companies, will come together to become Genkyotex, a listed Franco-Swiss company whose focus will be develping a a pipeline of NOX inhibitors, a new therapeutic class in fibrosis and inflammatory pain.
According to Deloitte’s 2017 Global Health Care Sector Outlook the challenges of providing and funding healthcare around the world are likely to continue this year due to the rising demands and associated spending of the aging population, the growing prevalence of chronic diseases and comorbidities, the development of costly clinical innovations, increasing patient expectations, and continued economic turbulence.
UBM EMEA announces the rebranding and relocation of CPhI Istanbul into CPhI Middle East & Africa, which will open next year (3-5 September 2018) at ADNEC Centre, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
ASIT biotech, a Belgian clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company could soon market its gp-ASIT+ grass pollen product, as it showed positive results in Phase III clinical trial in grass pollen rhinitis.
Former Allergan boss David Pyott signed as special advisor to Sienna Biopharmaceuticals, a privately held, clinical-stage medical dermatology and aesthetics company.
Realm Therapeutics has won FDA’s approval for its IND application to proceed with Phase II clinical trial for atopic dermatitis (AD) drug.
TopiVert Pharma has finished dosing of the first subjects in a Phase 1 study of its oral formulation of TOP1288 for the treatment of ulcerative colitis (UC).