Great leaders and how to follow their example
October 22, 2009Business Services careers, training
We remember most clearly the leaders that have inspired us and shared their wisdom, and we absorb key truths from …
PharmaSwiss plans Serbian plant
October 22, 2009Manufacturing and Production PharmaSwiss
PharmaSwiss is planning to build a brand new manufacturing unit in Belgrade, Serbia, to allow it to carry out end-to-end …
National strategy planned to tackle liver disease
October 22, 2009NHS
A 'liver czar' is to be brought into the Department of Health to develop and oversee an effective strategy to …
EFPIA starts anti-counterfeiting pilots in Sweden
October 21, 2009Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing EU, counterfeits, supply chain
More than 100,000 products and 25 retail pharmacies in Stockholm will take part in a two-month anti-counterfeiting project run by …
Jamie Hooper, account manager, DNA Healthcare Advertising
October 21, 2009Medical Communications appointment, dna healthcare advertising, medical communications
DNA Healthcare Advertising has appointed Jamie Hooper as an account manager.In his new role Jamie will work on a number …
Barbara Britten, business developement director, Pharmexx UK
October 21, 2009Sales and Marketing appointment, pharmexx, sales and marketing
Barbara Britten has joined Pharmexx UK as a business developement director.She most recently worked at Actelion, where she held the …
UK begins swine flu vaccinations with GSK jab
October 21, 2009Sales and Marketing h1n1, hc
The UK's swine flu vaccination programme began today with NHS hospitals offering the jabs to frontline healthcare workers and patients …
Lonza looking elsewhere after retreating from Patheon bid?
October 21, 2009Manufacturing and Production Lonza
Lonza said it has elected not to proceed with a $460 million bid to buy Canadian contract manufacturing and development …
Andrew Sandham, executive chairman, Syntaxin
October 20, 2009Research and Development appointment, appointments, research and development, syntaxin
Syntaxin, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel biologic drugs that control cell secretion, has appointed Andrew Sandham executive chairman.This follows the …
Cellectis appoints Dr Sylvie Delassus Senior Vice President Communications
October 20, 2009Research and Development appointment, cellectis, research and development
French genome engineering company Cellectis has appointed Dr Sylvie Delassus senior vice president communications and a member of its executive …
Digital Pharma: Raising awareness of clinical trials
October 20, 2009Medical Communications, Research and Development CRO, Quintiles, digi, digital pharma, digital research, patient recruitment
Contract research organisation Quintiles has launched a website for people considering participating in clinical trials. The company hopes Clinicalresearch.com will …
GSK kidney cancer drug approved in US
October 20, 2009Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cancer, GSK, rcc
GlaxoSmithKline’s Votrient has been approved in the US by the FDA to treat the most common form of kidney cancer.This …
First details emerge of Pfizer site closures
October 20, 2009Research and Development, Sales and Marketing MA, Pfizer, restructure
The completion of Pfizer’s deal to acquire Wyeth has been followed swiftly by news that a number of manufacturing and …
Gail Flockhart joins Fishawack Communications as managing director
October 19, 2009Medical Communications appointment, appointment fishawack, fishawack, medical communications
Fishawack Communications has appointed Gail Flockhart managing director following a restructure of its board of directors.Gail has over two decades …
Cambridge biotech – innovation and global partnerships
October 19, 2009Research and Development Cambridge, ERBI, biotech, regenerative medicine
Just two years ago it cost $10m to sequence a human genome, now for $48,000 you can have a personal …
GSK’s Cervarix finally wins US approval
October 19, 2009Sales and Marketing Cervarix, GSK, US
US regulator the FDA has approved GlaxoSmithKline's cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix, finally allowing the company to bring it to the …
Pharma manufacturing news in brief
October 19, 2009Manufacturing and Production Neopharma
A round-up of developments in the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector, with facility updates from Neopharma, Nextpharma and Arch Pharmalab and new …
AZ-BMS launch Onglyza in Europe
October 19, 2009Sales and Marketing AZ, BMS, DPP-4, Onglyza, diabetes
Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca’s long-awaited type II diabetes drug Onglyza has been launched in the UK, its first European market.Designed …
Hannah Stacey, senior account manager, Athena
October 16, 2009Medical Communications Athena, appointment, medical communications
Athena has promoted Hannah Stacey to senior account manager. Hannah has played an integral role in Athena’s new business initiatives …
Latest content
One in three UK women with migraine say symptoms taken less seriously
Report highlights scope to expand day surgery
Sygnature formalises drug discovery collaboration with X-Chem
Codis appoints Steven Facer as chief commercial officer
Danish medical cannabis use rises as regulator reports no new safety signals
