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AbbVie’s Humira meets endpoint in eye disease study

May 6, 2015 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AbbVie, FDA, Humira, Zydus Cadila, adalimumab, uveitis

In a Phase III trial AbbVie’s anti-inflammatory medicine Humira has been shown to significantly lower the risk of uncontrolled uveitis …
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New chief business officer for Corium

May 6, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Joseph Sarret, corium

Dr Joseph Sarret has joined commercial-stage US biopharma firm Corium International in the newly-created position of chief business officer. 
Appointment
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Bayer buys blood-thinning drug from Isis

May 5, 2015 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Bayer, Eliquis, ISIS-FXI, Isis, Xarelto, blooding thinning

German drug giant Bayer is sealing a $155 million deal with Isis Pharmaceuticals to gain access to its anti-clotting treatment …
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Worldwide cancer spending tops $100 billion

May 5, 2015 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cancer, IMS Health, keytruda, oncology

Over $100 billion was spent on cancer medicines across the world last year as a new generation of drugs begins …
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Working Life: AstraZeneca’s Jonathan Day

May 5, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Jonathan Day, Working Life

 How did you find your way into your current role? By way of background, I trained in medicine at the …
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Two consultants join RSA’s UK team

May 5, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Agata Grzeszczuk, Andy Theodorou, rsa

Life sciences recruitment firm RSA has appointed two new consultants to its UK executive search team.   Agata Grzeszczuk (pictured) takes …
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Virgo Consumer Health & Wellbeing hires associate director

May 1, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Kirsty McKinnon, Virgo

Virgo Consumer Health & Wellbeing has appointed Kirsty McKinnon to lead the division’s personal care sector. McKinnon joins the firm …
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Recipharm appoints general manager for Italian unit

April 30, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Giorgio Bruno, Recipharm

Contract development and manufacturing organisation Recipharm has confirmed that Dr Giorgio Bruno has been appointed general manager of Recipharm Italia. In …
Appointment
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GSK shingles vaccine performs

April 29, 2015 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing GSK, GlaxoSmithKline, HZ/su, Merck, zostovax

GlaxoSmithKline’s HZ/su vaccine candidate for the prevention of shingles has demonstrated promising benefits across all age groups in a late-stage …
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RSA hires two consultants in Germany

April 29, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Andreas Reimer, Ji Kwon, rsa

Executive search and interims firm RSA has appointed two consultants to its teams in the DACH region. Andreas Reimer (pictured) …
Appointment
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Celgene splashes out on cancer R&D firm

April 28, 2015 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing

Oncology specialists Celgene have made a $485 million outlay to buy Quanticel Pharmaceuticals, to increase its effort and investment in …
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UK ‘has ten years to become global biotech leader’

April 28, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing

The UK should be home to ‘the third global cluster’ for biotech in the next 10 years, according to a …
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Researchers hit out at ‘alarming’ increase in MS drug costs

April 27, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing

Researchers have hit out at the ‘alarming’ rise in the costs of disease-modifying treatments for multiple sclerosis, in a new …
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The Pharmafocus debate: Is the price of new hepatitis C treatments fair?

April 27, 2015 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Doctors of the World, Drug pricing, EFPIA, Gilead, MSF, drug cost, hepatitis C, patents, sofosbuvir, sovaldi

YES – says Richard Bergström, director general of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), who argues that …
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Actavis confirms retirement of its comms officer

April 24, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Actavis, charles mayr

Ireland-based pharma firm Actavis has announced its chief communications officer Charles Mayr (pictured) is to retire shortly due to health …
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