Research and Development

A British scientist who helped discover the BRCA breast cancer gene and paved the way for personalised medicine has been …

Biopharma services provider PAREXEL has appointed Ingo Bank to be a senior VP and chief financial officer at the firm. …

The Department of Health has unveiled a new system for co-ordinating cancer treatment which it hopes will save thousands of …

Medical device company Freedom Meditech has appointed Dr Paul Karpecki to its Scientific Advisory Board. Karpecki currently works in corneal …

Biopharma firm Regulas Therapeutics has named Stelios Papadopoulos chairman of its Board of directors.  Papadopoulos assumes the role from John …

A new investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches and the British Medical Journal is demanding that all trial data be released …

GlaxoSmithKline has dismissed its vice president of research in China in connection with ‘misrepresentation’ of research data.Jingwu Zang had been senior …

A collective of five charitable societies have come together to create a new bioscience hub in central London. The offices …

Biopharma firm Questcor Pharmaceuticals has appointed the recently-retired chief executive of Shire to its Board of directors.   Angus Russell …

Novartis’ oral MS drug Gilenya has been found to help multiple sclerosis (MS) patients who switch to it after taking …

One of Boehringer Ingelheim’s pipeline drugs has achieved high response rates in patients with chronic genotype-1 hepatitis C virus (HCV) in …

AstraZeneca is betting big on lung disease specialist Pearl Therapeutics as it looks to spend $1.2 billion to acquire the …

How did you find your way into your current role? I began my career in the UK as a sales …

Biotech firm Mirna Therapeutics has appointed Dr Sinil Kim as vice president of Oncology and chief medical officer. Kim will …

Aveo will make major jobs cuts this year after news that a kidney cancer licence for its oncology drug tivozanib …