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Roche gets oncology boost with cancer vaccine

May 16, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ASCO, Roche, bladder cancer, oncology

Roche’s most advanced experimental cancer immunotherapy has had impressive results in a small Phase I trial, reducing tumour size in …
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Giotrif increases lung cancer survival

May 16, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Boehringer, Iressa, Roche, Tarceva, afatinib, giotrif, lung cancer

Boehringer Ingelheim is trumpeting overall survival results from a new analysis of two late-stage studies involving Giotrif in lung cancer …
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K-V Pharmaceutical hires head of women’s healthcare

May 15, 2014 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing KV, paul williams

K-V Pharmaceutical (KV) has hired industry veteran and former Actavis head Paul Williams to lead its women’s healthcare division.  Williams …
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MedImmune signs Incyte oncology deal

May 15, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Cancer, Incyte, MedImmune, oncology

MedImmune, the global biologics R&D arm of AstraZeneca, is to put one of its oncology immunotherapies into development in combination …
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Pfizer: ‘fewer scientists’ after merger

May 14, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Read, Soriot, UK, Willetts, merger, takeover

Pfizer’s proposed takeover of AstraZeneca would result in there being fewer scientists from both companies in the UK than currently …
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More late-stage anguish for GSK heart drug

May 14, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing GSK, Patrick Vallance, darapladib, heart

GlaxoSmithKline’s experimental heart drug darapladib has failed to meet its primary endpoint in a Phase III trial for the second …
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Just:: appoints digital specialist

May 14, 2014 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Daniel Prideaux, Just, Just::, digital

Just:: Health Communications has hired Daniel Prideaux to head-up its digital offering.  Prideaux joins from DigitasLBi and previously worked at …
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Toshiba creates disease diagnosis tool

May 13, 2014 Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Disease, Japan, breath analyser, toshiba

Japan’s multinational electronics firm Toshiba has developed a breath-analysing prototype system that it says can be used to diagnose diseases.  …
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Biotec hires non-executive director

May 13, 2014 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Biotec, ashley cooper

Logistics services firm Biotec Services International has expanded its board with the appointment of a non-executive director. Joining the UK-headquartered …
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Poll: UK opposed to Pfizer takeover bid of AZ

May 13, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Cameron, Pfizer, UK, buyout, merger, research

The UK’s largest union says a new poll shows that the vast majority of the British public are against Pfizer’s …
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Boehringer launches new transparency regime

May 12, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Boehringer, LEO Pharma, all trials, csr, transparency

Boehringer is making good on its 2013 promise to release more clinical trial data to researchers with the launch of …
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AZ ‘consulted first’ by UK government after Pfizer bid

May 12, 2014 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, George Osborne, Pfizer, Wellcome Trust, david cameron

UK prime minister David Cameron has rejected claims that his government is prioritising discussions with Pfizer over its proposed acquisition …
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Pfizer signs universities deal

May 12, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Pfizer, academics, rare diseases

Pfizer has signed a five-year research deal with several top British universities to hunt for new treatments for rare disease. …
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‘Bioscience is cornerstone’ of Alderley Park

May 12, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AZ, AstraZeneca, alderley, msp, research

Manchester Science Parks (MSP), the new owners of the 400-acre Alderley Park facility, has pledged to keep its activities “at …
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Lundbeck buys Chelsea Therapeutics

May 12, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Chelsea Therapeutics, Lundbeck

Lundbeck could pay as much as $658 million for neurological disorder specialist Chelsea Therapeutics as the firm looks to shore …
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