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Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst hires first entrepreneur-in-residence

December 13, 2012
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst

Early-stage biotech firm Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst (SBC) has appointed Dr Barbara Domayne-Hayman as its first entrepreneur-in-residence. Domayne-Hayman will work with …

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Eliquis in UK for AF

December 13, 2012
Sales and Marketing AF, BMS, Eliquis, NVAF, Pfizer

Eliquis has been made available in the UK today to prevent stroke and systemic embolism in patients with nonvalvular atrial …

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New managing director for Lilly UK

December 12, 2012
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing lilly

Lilly UK has appointed Dr Jean-Michel Cosséry as the new managing director and VP of the UK Affiliate and the …

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Almac Group appoints Charlie Morris to executive team

December 12, 2012
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Almac Group

The Almac Group’s Clinical Technologies business unit has announced that Charlie Morris has joined the company as vice president of …

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Switzerland first to pass EU’s ‘equivalence’ test for APIs

December 12, 2012
Manufacturing and Production API, China, EU, FMD, MHRA

Switzerland has become the first country to be classed as having equivalent standards for the manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients …

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Novartis blood cancer hope

December 12, 2012
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Jakavi, Novartis, oncology

Two-year data from Novartis’s drug Jakavi suggests that it may improve overall survival in a rare form of cancer versus …

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Roche plans €200m investment in diagnostics facility

December 12, 2012
Manufacturing and Production Diagnostics, Roche

Roche has said it intends to invest more than €200 million ($260m) in the construction of a new production plant …

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SMC first to give Fycompa thumbs-up

December 12, 2012
Sales and Marketing Eisai, Fycompa, SMC, Scotland, epilepsy

The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has approved Eisai’s first-in-class epilepsy drug Fycompa for use in the NHS in Scotland – …

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Hanover Communications hires associate director

December 12, 2012
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Hanover, Jim Baxter

Hanover Communications has announced the appointment of Jim Baxter to its Healthcare division in order to expand into the brand …

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Contract research news in brief

December 12, 2012
Research and Development AMRI, Covance, Dimensione Ricerca, INC Research, Perceptive Informatics, TFS

TFS buys Italian CRO Dimensione Ricerca, AMRI closes a US facility plus business development updates from Covance, Perceptive Informatics and …

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EC approves new Xaluprine formulation

December 12, 2012
Research and Development

The European Commission has approved a revised formulation of Xaluprine (mercaptopurine oral suspension) which no longer contains the preservative propyl …

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First CCGs get green light

December 11, 2012
Sales and Marketing CB, CCGs, Hunt, Lansley, NHS

In a landmark development for the controversial Health and Social Care Act, the first clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have taken …

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USP postpones work on elemental impurities

December 11, 2012
Manufacturing and Production

The US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has postponed the publication of new chapters on elemental impurities after an appeal by drugmakers …

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Boehringer to make cancer antibody for Apexigen

December 11, 2012
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing APX005, Apexigen, Boehringer

Boehringer Ingelheim has won a contract from US biotech company Apexigen to manufacture APX005, an antibody-based drug candidate for various …

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EMA sets out stall on medicine shortages

December 11, 2012
Manufacturing and Production EMA, GMP, shortages

The European Medicines Agency has called for action at the EU level to tackle the issue of medicine shortages caused …

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Pharma manufacturing news in brief

December 11, 2012
Manufacturing and Production AMRI, Hovione, NextPharma Tech, Recipharm, Sanner, Solvias

AMRI renews a key contract with GE, NextPharma sells off US unit Bioserv, plus facility updates for Sanner and Recipharm …

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Pharma applauds government strategy

December 11, 2012
Sales and Marketing ABPI, BIA, Cameron, Willetts

The ABPI and BioIndustry Association (BIA) have both welcomed the government’s update on its Strategy for UK Life Sciences, launched …

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Perjeta reduces risk of death

December 11, 2012
Sales and Marketing Cancer, Perjeta, Roche

Roche’s cancer drug Perjeta helps reduce the risk of death by 34% in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer (mBC), …

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Life Healthcare adds three heads to its team

December 11, 2012
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Life Healthcare

Comms agency Life Healthcare Communications has added Steve Lewis, Helen Gillingham and Rosie Hider to its creative output.

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Growth in GP drug prescriptions

December 11, 2012
Sales and Marketing GPs, NHS, UK, doctors, prescribing

The volume of GP-prescribed drugs grew by an annual average of 8.4% in the years 1995-2010, according to new government …

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