Category: North America

March 16, 2017 Off

Cannabis industry turning into multi-billion dollar opportunity

By Dino Mustafić

In the United States, this market’s massive growth potential is being recognized as new states legalize marijuana for medical or recreational use. Industry experts forecast the U.S. cannabis market rounding $7 billion in 2016, while the annual sale of state-legal cannabis products is forecast to exceed $20 billion by 2020.

March 16, 2017 Off

USPTO favorable to Ceylad

By Dino Mustafić

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has been favorable to Ceylad for the fourth time for production of Allogenic TCR-Deficient CAR-T cells.

March 15, 2017 Off

InDex Pharmaceuticals gets patent grant in USA

By Dino Mustafić

Sweden-based pharmaceutical development company focusing on immunological diseases InDex Pharmaceuticals Holding AB has been granted a patent covering 19 compounds from the company’s DIMS platform by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

March 14, 2017 Off

FDA OK’s Novartis’s breast cancer drug

By Dino Mustafić

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Novartis’s Kisqali (ribociclib, formerly known as LEE011) in combination with an aromatase inhibitor as initial endocrine-based therapy for treatment of postmenopausal women with hormone receptor positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 negative (HR+/HER2-) advanced or metastatic breast cancer.