Research and Development

Belgium-based biopharma firm Ablynx has appointed Johan Heylen to be its chief commercial officer and assume responsibility for all commercial …

Sanofi has appointed Professor Bonnie Bassler as an independent member to sit among its board of directors. Bassler has more …

Former director of the NIH Vaccine Research Center Dr Gary Nabel has been hired by Sanofi to spearhead its contribution …

Luc Vanheel has joined the European Medicines Agency (EMA) as the head of its administration division. A Belgian national, Vanheel …

Pfizer has signed a multi-billion dollar deal to develop one of Merck KGaA’s investigational drugs, MSB0010718C, an anti-PD-L1 antibody. The …

People in the UK believe antibiotic resistance is second only to terrorism among threats to the public, according to a …

Bayer MaterialScience is getting a new head of industrial operations and technology as Dr Tony Van Osselaer retires from the …

The great physicist Lord Kelvin said: “If you can measure something, and express it in numbers, then you know something …

Epic Sciences has confirmed the appointment of Toni Wayne as the vice president of its human resources department. Wayne has …

Three experimental Ebola therapies will be tested at sites operated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in West Africa, according to …

Dublin-based speciality pharma firm Actavis which is currently in talks to buy Allergan for $60 billion, has hired a chief …

Allergan is attempting to block a recent Valeant hostile takeover bid by seeking the rumoured alternative merger deal with Actavis, …

A leading cancer charity has warned that a number of key drugs are at risk of being withdrawn from patients …

UK scientists have used a laser beam trap to examine how drug particles from asthma inhalers travel through the air …

GE Healthcare and Takeda Pharmaceutical have joined forces to develop treatments which target liver conditions including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease …