Research and Development

Bristol Myers Squibb has announced a Phase III study of Opdivo (nivolumab) in head and neck cancer patients was stopped early …

Eli Lilly has partnered with Roche Diagnostics to advance its development of a cerebrospinal fluid test for amyloid-beta 1-42, which …

Myeloma UK and the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) have entered into an open-access research partnership to find new drug targets …

Merck has made two appointments in its biopharma business: Gary Zieziula will lead Merck’s biopharma business in North America and …

After several years of anguish about pharmaceutical pipelines, R&D productivity seems to be picking up.New medicines and cell and gene …

The ‘critical need’ to improve recruitment and retention in clinical trials is driving pharma to create a “structural change in …

The FDA has accepted Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly’s supplemental New Drug Application for their diabetes drug Jardiance to be …

NICE has published final recommendations approving drug treatments for ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, multiple myeloma, gastric cancer and idiopathic pulmonary …

Full year sales at the healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson fell by 6% in 2015, to just over $70 billion, …

NICE has published updated final guidance recommending seven biological disease modifying drugs (DMARDs) for treatment of severe rheumatoid arthritis which …

Cotrel joins Avacta from Abcam, where he held the role of commercial operations director.He will lead the Group’s commercial strategy …

The board of directors of MannKind have appointed Matthew Pfeffer as chief executive of MannKind.He replaces Alfred Mann who has …

Pascale Richetta will join the UCB as its new head of the bone therapy patient value unit as from February …

Cancer Research UK has appointed Professor Sir Bruce Ponder as a trustee. Ponder is emeritus professor of oncology at Cambridge …

Pharmaceutical companies are currently undergoing fundamental, disruptive changes to conventional research and development models. This is in an attempt to …