Category: Middle East and North Africa

October 5, 2015 Off

2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winners

By Dino Mustafić

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites and the other half to Youyou Tu for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria.

September 29, 2015 Off

Eli Lilly, Incyte: positive top-line results of RA-BEGIN

By Dino Mustafić

Eli Lilly and Company and Incyte Corporation have announced positive top-line results of RA-BEGIN, the third Phase 3 study evaluating the safety and efficacy of baricitinib, an investigational medicine for patients with moderately-to-severely active rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

September 14, 2015 Off

Hikma buys 98.09% of EUP

By Dino Mustafić

Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC, a multinational pharmaceutical group, has agreed to acquire 98.09% of the share capital of EIMC United Pharmaceuticals (EUP)…