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Torisel-Avastin combo fails in kidney cancer

August 13, 2012 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing R&D, Sutent, Torisel, avastin, failure, rcc

Combining Pfizer’s Torisel and Roche’s Avastin does not increase survival rates for advanced kidney cancer patients. This is according to …
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Contract research news in brief

August 10, 2012 Research and Development Accenture, Charles River Labs, ICON, Octagon Research Solutions, Phlexglobal, Quanticate, Verum

ICON plans UK investment, Verum expands in the US, plus updates from Charles River, Phlexglobal, Accenture/Octagon and Quanticate.
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Pfizer signs drug profiling deal with Nodality

August 10, 2012 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Lupus, Nodality, Pfizer, SCNP

Pfizer has signed a multi-year drug profiling deal with Nodality to help get the best from its autoimmune disease compounds. …
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Former Pfizer head Kindler joins Lux Capital

August 10, 2012 Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Kindler, Pfizer

Venture capital firm Lux Capital has appointed former Pfizer chairman and chief executive Jeff Kindler as a partner. Kindler will …
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Working Life: Amanda Paxon

August 9, 2012 Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Amanda Paxon, Boehringer Ingelheim, Working Life

 How did you find your way into your current role? Through a combination of good luck and hard work! I …
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Amgen scraps pancreatic cancer drug

August 9, 2012 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Amgen, GAMMA, Ganitumab, pancreatic

Biotech company Amgen has abandoned its late-stage trial of a new drug for one of the most hard-to-treat of all …
News

Cambridge University gains stem cell centre funding

August 9, 2012 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cambridge, MRC, Wellcome Trust, stem cell

The Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council are investing £8 million into a new stem cell research centre. The …
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NHS Board appointments

August 9, 2012 Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing DoH, NHS, government

Further Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) managing directors have been announced by the NHS Board Authority.
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ABPI appoints UK pharma team to head VBP discussion

August 8, 2012 Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, VBP

The ABPI has announced the team which will represent the pharma industry in negotiations with the government to agree the …
Appointment
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AstraZeneca and BTG sepsis drug fails

August 8, 2012 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AZD977, AstraZeneca, BTG, CytoFab, sepsis

AstraZeneca’s pipeline has suffered another blow with the troubled company halting development of an investigational sepsis drug following poor Phase …
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Appointments made to NHS property services

August 8, 2012 Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Charles Howeson, NHS

The company set up by the government to manage all the ex-PCT estate not transferred to providers (NHS Property Services), …
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Horizon Discovery appoints chief financial officer

August 7, 2012 Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Horizon Discovery, Richard Vellacott

Horizon Discovery has announced the appointment of Richard Vellacott as chief financial officer. The firm which is a provider of …
Appointment
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Pfizer/Janssen Alzheimer’s drug dropped after failure

August 7, 2012 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Alzheimer's, Janssen, Pfizer, bapineuzumab

Pfizer and Janssen have decided to drop their investigational Alzheimer’s drug bapineuzumab after it failed a second late-stage study. The …
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Novartis and Pennsylvania team up on cancer research

August 6, 2012 Research and Development Cancer, Novartis, University of Pennsylvania, chimeric antigen receptor

Novartis and the University of Pennsylvania have joined forces to investigate a method of treating cancer which encourages patients’ immune …
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Talentmark appoints director of Managed Services

August 3, 2012 Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Ian Broadway, Talentmark

Life sciences recruitment firm Talentmark has appointed Ian Broadway as director of Managed Services. Broadway is an experienced life science …
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