Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for Allergan’s Avycaz (ceftazidime and avibactam) for priority review.
Sanofi has appointed Stefan Oelrich as Executive Vice President Diabetes & Cardiovascular (DCV), effectively immediately.
Alcon, a division of Novartis, will introduce Clareon, the intraocular lens (IOL) with the most advanced optic material available in an automated, disposable, pre-loaded delivery system, at the XXXV European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) congress taking place October 7 – 11 in Lisbon, Portugal.
Eli Lilly has made certain leadership changes, promoting several experienced Lilly leaders to executive roles, effective in 2018.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Eli Lilly’s Verzenio (abemaciclib) to treat adult patients who have hormone receptor (HR)-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative advanced or metastatic breast cancer that has progressed after taking therapy that alters a patient’s hormones (endocrine therapy).
Novartis has joined forces with researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, to develop new technologies for the discovery of next-generation therapeutics, pursuing the vast number of disease targets in cancer and other illnesses that have eluded traditional small-molecule compounds and are considered “undruggable.”
Basilea Pharmaceutica has entered into a license agreement with Shenzhen China Resources Gosun Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (CR Gosun) for Basilea’s antibiotic Zevtera (ceftobiprole) in China, Hong Kong and Macao (the Territory).
China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has approved Novo Nordisk’s Tresiba (insulin degludec) for the treatment of diabetes in China.
FDA has reported that the federal judge ordered a New Jersey company that sold injectable skin whitening and other beauty products to stop selling and recall some of its products because they are unapproved new drugs that may be unsafe, putting consumers at risk.
Novartis has enterned in new collaboration with The Max Foundation to support continued access to treatment at no cost for nearly 34,000 current patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), gastrointestinal tumors (GIST) and other rare cancers.