May 7, 2018
Novartis’s Alcon cares project 100 commits to reducing cataract blindness globally
Alcon, a division of Novartis, will give 100 reprocessed Infiniti units to eligible clinics in Asia, Central and South America,…
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April 25, 2018
Novartis launches FocalView app, providing opportunity for patients to participate in ophthalmology clinical trials from home
Novartis announced the launch of its FocalView app, an ophthalmic digital research platform created with ResearchKit. FocalView aims to allow…
April 16, 2018
Entresto helped preserve kidney function in patients with chronic heart failure
Novartis has announced a new post hoc analysis of the pivotal Phase III heart failure study, PARADIGM-HF, which showed that…
April 9, 2018
Swiss drugmaker Novartis buys US-based gene therapy company for $8.7 billion
Novartis’s acquisition of the US-based Nasdaq-listed clinical stage gene therapy company AveXis for $218 per share, for total of 8.7…
March 27, 2018
Novartis sells stake in consumer healthcare JV to GSK for $13.0 billion
Novartis will sell its 36.5 percent stake in its consumer healthcare joint venture (JV) to GSK for $13.0 billion, it…
March 23, 2018
Sandoz receives positive CHMP opinion for proposed biosimilar infliximab
The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion…
March 23, 2018
Novartis to seek approval for first SPMS (multiple sclerosis) therapy after the positive Phase III results
Novartis could have the first therapy which could delay disability progression secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS) if it gets the…
March 20, 2018
Novartis teams up with Harvard to develop next generation biomaterial systems to deliver immunotherapies
Novartis has teamed up with scientists from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Dana-Farber…
March 12, 2018
Novartis reshuffles senior leadership chairs, splits operations into technical operations and business services
Novartis has made several changes as it added several figures in the team starting April, while its Operations president, André…
March 7, 2018
Novartis to advance virtual clinical trials program with expanded alliance
Novartis aims to initiate up to 10 new clinical trials over the next three year with a leader in decentralized clinical trial…