Research and Development

AstraZeneca has signed a research deal with Swedish pharma company Orexo centred around the development of respiratory disease treatments. For …

Boehringer Ingelheim has teamed up with a social entrepreneur network to promote health projects in developing countries. This is the …

In the mid-1990s, an NHS teaching hospital close to my offices invited proposals for expanding its clinical trials unit. Hitherto …

GSK has confirmed the appointment of Hans Wijers to its Board as a non-executive director with effect from April.  The …

The chairman of the Board and member of the Bayer executive council Dr Jörg Reinhard is stepping down from his …

Watson has completed the acquisition of Uteron Pharma, a Belgium R&D-based firm specialising in women’s health products. The world’s third-largest …

Six of the world’s top health science centres have banded together in an attempt to speed up the rate at …

Roche has announced that John Reed has been appointed as head of Roche Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED) and …

The medical charity Crohn’s and Colitis UK Trustees have announced the appointment of David Barker as the new chief executive …

Eli Lilly’s diagnostic radiopharmaceutical Amyvid has been approved in Europe to assess whether patients have Alzheimer’s disease. Amyvid (Florbetapir F …

Bristol-Myers Squibb has appointed Mike Burgess as senior vice president, Discovery Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology. He will report to Francis …

Packaging firm Rieke Dispensing has appointed Nicolas Lemaigre-Voreaux as its European Sales director to spearhead the company’s growth programme. Lemaigre-Voreaux …

Strategic pharma marketing consultancy firm The MSI Consultancy has appointed David Watson as a senior consultant, specialising in channel strategy. …

One of the strange paradoxes of our industry is that we have a very large number of new medicines in …

AstraZeneca has taken its most dramatic steps yet to arrest decline, with chief executive Pascal Soriot axeing two senior positions …