NICE promotes Professor Gillian Leng as its new Chief Executive

March 18, 2020
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing NHS, NICE, UK, pharma

NICE, the drug watchdog for the NHS in England and Wales, has announced that it has promoted Professor Gillian Leng …

New technologies and industry collaboration will help fight chronic illnesses

March 17, 2020
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing feature, pharma

Authored by Dan Boot, Head of Digital Innovation at RB Health.Around the world, populations are aging. According to the World …

European Commission offers €80m to CureVac to develop coronavirus vaccine

March 17, 2020
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing CureVac, EU, US, coronavirus

Following confirmation of reports that US President Donald Trump sought to persuade a biotech to provide US-exclusivity for a potential …

Novo Nordisk halts three haemophilia studies after participants suffer thrombotic events

March 17, 2020
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development Novo Nordisk, haemophilia, pharma

Novo Nordisk has moved to temporarily shut down two of its Phase 3 and one of its Phase 2 clinical …

Success and failure at Phase 3 for AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi combos in first-line small cell lung cancer

March 17, 2020
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development AstraZeneca, Cancer, Imfinzi, pharma

AstraZeneca has pulled back the curtain on new Phase 3 data for Imfinzi (durvalumab) in the first-line treatment of extensive-stage …

FDA gives emergency authorisation to first coronavirus tests

March 17, 2020
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing FDA, Roche, US, coronavirus

The coronavirus crisis in the US has thus far been characterised by a lack of testing within its population. This …

Human dosing begins for first US coronavirus vaccine

March 17, 2020
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development Moderna, Vaccine, coronavirus, pharma

The race to develop a vaccine against the ongoing outbreak of novel coronavirus has stepped up with the news that …

Genmab announces newly-created Chief Financial Officer appointment

March 16, 2020
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Genmab, pharma

Genmab has announced the establishment of the new position of Chief Operating Officer at the company, and has furthermore named …

Trump tried to solicit US-exclusivity for coronavirus vaccine, report claims

March 16, 2020
Sales and Marketing CureVac, Trump, US, coronavirus, pharma

President Trump has attracted criticism from all sides over his response to the novel coronavirus outbreak; after repeatedly downplaying the …

Bavencio Phase 3 head and neck cancer trial terminated

March 16, 2020
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Bavencio, Cancer, EMD Serono, Merck KGaA, Pfizer, trial failure

Merck KGaA, its biopharma division EMD Serono, and Pfizer have announced their decision to terminate their ongoing Phase 3 trial …

NHS England to supply HIV prevention drug PrEP with £16m government investment

March 16, 2020
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing NHS, NHS England, PrEP HIV, PrEP< HIV, UK, pharma

NHS England is set to fund the availability of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for the prevention of HIV for local authorities …

Fosun and BioNTech partner up for coronavirus vaccine development and commercialisation

March 16, 2020
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing BioNTech, coronavirus, fosun, pharma

As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak continues to test global leadership, a new partnership has been announced between BioNTech and …

FDA greenlights Celltrion HIV drug manufacturing facility in South Korea

March 16, 2020
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing FDA, celltrion, coronavirus, pharma

South Korean biopharma firm Celltrion has revealed that one of its key manufacturing facilities has been given the all-clear by …

Numerous sporting events suspended across the UK, after staff and players test positive for COVID-19

March 13, 2020
Medical Communications Chinese Coronavirus, UK Coronavirus, Wuhan Coronavirus, coronavirus

Sporting events across the UK have been postponed as measures are taken to halt the spread of the coronavirus. Rugby …

AstraZeneca’s cediranib combo misses main goal in platinum-sensitive relapsed ovarian cancer

March 13, 2020
Medical Communications, Research and Development AstraZeneca, cediranib, lynparza, pharma, trial failure

Newly revealed Phase 3 data has shown that AstraZeneca’s oral vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) inhibitor cediranib, when combined …

Venclyxto combo scores European approval for previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

March 13, 2020
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing AbbVie, European Commission, Roche, Venclyxto, pharma

The European Commission has moved to authorise AbbVie and Roche’s B-cell lymphoma-2 (BCL-2) inhibitor Venclyxto (venetoclax) when used in combination …

UK Government criticised for not enacting social distancing measures to combat coronavirus

March 13, 2020
Medical Communications Chinese Coronavirus, UK Coronavirus, Wuhan Coronavirus, coronavirus

The UK government has come under fire from health experts and former cabinet ministers for its strategy in fighting the …

Keytruda rejected for NHS use for bladder cancer, will be removed from the Cancer Drugs Fund

March 12, 2020
Sales and Marketing Cancer, Kidney cancer, MSD, NHS, NICE, blader cancer, keytruda, pharma

MSD’s blockbuster immunotherapy Keytruda (pembrolizumab) has been knocked back by NICE for use on the NHS as a treatment for …

Iran foreign ministry accuses US of blocking medicine deliveries

March 12, 2020
Business Services Iran, Iran Trump, Trump Iran

A spokesperson from the Iranian foreign ministry has accused the US of refusing to deliver medicine to the country. US …

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