December 21, 2016
Ipsen to sell Exelixis’s cabozantinib in Canada
Exelixis and Ipsen have signed an amendment to the exclusive collaboration and licensing agreement for the commercialization and continued development…
Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Category: North America
December 20, 2016
Allergan eats LifeCell for $2,9 billion
Allergan has acquired the regenerative medicine company LifeCell for $2.9 billion in cash.
December 20, 2016
BMS gets exclusive rights to study PsiOxus’s cancer drug
Bristol-Myers Squibb and PsiOxus Therapeutics have entered into an agreement granting Bristol-Myers Squibb exclusive worldwide rights to NG-348, a pre-clinical…
December 20, 2016
Pharnext enrolls patients for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease study in Europe, US, and Canada.
A French biopharmaceutical company Pharnext set to produce treatments to tackle neuropathy diseases, has completed patient enrollment for its international…
December 20, 2016
Novartis buys private US-based pharma company, exapnds its ophtalmology pipeline
Novarits is expanding its ophthalmology pipeline as it secured the ownership of a US-based private company focused on treating long-sightedness.
December 20, 2016
Silence Therapeutics settles with Quark Pharmaceuticals
Silence Therapeutics and Quark Pharmaceuticals have settled in the arbitration regarding a milestone payment, as Silence is to receive a…
December 20, 2016
FDA approves Clovis Oncology’s new drug for advanced ovarian cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval to orphan drug Rubraca (rucaparib) to treat women with…
December 20, 2016
Novartis, Conatus in borad deal to make treatments for liver diseases
Novartis and Conatus Pharmaceuticals have signed a multipurpose deal which will help the two drug makers to make liver-disease treatment,…
December 19, 2016
FDA takes down highest warnings from Pfizer’s and GSK’s quitting smoking drugs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found that the mental-health side effect risk of Pfizer’s and GSK’s quitting…
December 19, 2016
Adocia/Lilly successfully complete insulin pump study
Adocia and Eli Lilly have completed an insulin pump study under the Adocia-Lilly partnership evaluating BioChaperone Lispro, an ultra-rapid formulation…