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GSK appoints Patrick Vallance

May 12, 2010 Research and Development GSK, appointment, research and development

Patrick Vallance has been appointed as senior vice president, medicines discovery and development at GlaxoSmithKline, and as a member of …
Appointment

Synexus appoints Germany and Poland managers

May 11, 2010 Research and Development CRO, Synexus, appointment, research and development

Synexus has appointed Dr Helena Sigal as country manager for Germany and Radoslaw Janiak as country manager for Poland. Helena …
Appointment

Calls for changes to trial publication process

May 11, 2010 Medical Communications, Research and Development industry relations, industry reputation, publication

Clinical trial publishing has not kept pace with changes in the way pharma carries out its research, according to a …
News

Crucell malaria vaccine starts trials in Africa

May 11, 2010 Research and Development Crucell, malaria

Dutch biopharma firm Crucell has started a phase I trial of its AdVac-based malaria vaccine in Burkina Faso, West Africa. …
News

Bayer colon cancer drug moves into phase III

May 11, 2010 Research and Development Bayer, colorectal cancer, regorafenib

Bayer Schering Pharma will shortly begin phase III tests of its investigational compound regorafenib for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.  …
News

Merck gains rights to cancer treatment

May 10, 2010 Research and Development Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Merck & Co, NSCLC

Merck has acquired an exclusive license for a new cancer drug that’s in trials for a number of different forms …
News

Professor Sander van Deventer appointed to AMT supervisory board

May 10, 2010 Research and Development AMT, Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics, appointment, research and development

Dutch human gene therapy company Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics has appointed Professor Sander van Deventer to its supervisory board. One of …
Appointment

Boehringer signs antibody myeloma R&D deal

May 10, 2010 Research and Development Boehringer, Cancer, Micromet, myeloma

Boehringer Ingelheim and US biotech company Micromet are to research and develop a new BiTE antibody to treat multiple myeloma. …
News

Mixed fortunes for major CROs in Q1

May 7, 2010 Research and Development CRO, Covance, ICON, PPD, Parexel, contact research, contract research, contract research organisation

Leading contract research organisations (CROs) reported a mixed bag of financial results for the first three months of 2010, although …
News

AZ signs tuberculosis drug discovery deal

May 6, 2010 Research and Development AstraZeneca, India, TB, tuberculosis

AstraZeneca and the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development are to collaborate on the discovery and development of drugs to treat tuberculosis.The two …
News

Sanofi signs Indian pain drug development deal

May 5, 2010 Research and Development Glenmark, Sanofi-Aventis, chronic pain, pain therapeutics

Sanofi-Aventis has signed an agreement with Indian firm Glenmark Pharmaceuticals to develop novel agents for the treatment of chronic pain. …
News

Collaborative cancer drug project targets research efficiency

May 5, 2010 Research and Development Animal testing, Animal tests, Cancer, biomarkers, clinical drug development

A new pharma-academia project being managed by the University of Dundee is setting its sights on improving the effectiveness of …
News

BMS on tenterhooks over belatacept future

May 4, 2010 Research and Development BMS, belatacept

Bristol-Myers Squibb has been kept on tenterhooks by US regulator the FDA over the future of its investigational kidney transplant …
News

Chiltern Wins Award at the Inaugural US Pharma Awards Ceremony

May 4, 2010 Research and Development

Glenn Kerkhof, Chiltern CEO, congratulated Kim Todd, Chiltern’s Silver Medal Award Winner in the category of experienced Clinical Research Associate/Site …
News
Press release

Contract research news in brief

May 4, 2010 Research and Development Corealis, Norwich Pharma, PPD, PRA, biofocus

Our round-up of developments in the contract research sector includes a new $41m contract for BioFocus, new locations for PPD, …
News
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