Research and Development

Bristol-Myers Squibb has appointed Dr Rick Lones as executive medical director in the UK. He joins BMS from AstraZeneca, where …

Sanofi-Aventis has signed a major deal to contract out a wide range of drug development and laboratory services as part …

Glasgow, UK-based contract research organisation ClinTec has expanded its US operations with the appointment of new executive vice president Dr …

It seems that barely a week goes by at the moment without news of another pharmaceutical company falling foul of …

A round-up of recent news from the CRO sector, featuring updates from CIT, Parexel, PPD, Cardialysis/Sticares and Porsolt. French non-clinical …

Pfizer has reduced the number of drugs in its product pipeline as part of a broad refocusing of its R&D …

The European Commission is to examine corporate responsibility in the pharmaceutical industry with the aim of developing a series of …

Cambridge, UK-based life sciences body One Nucleus has appointed Dr Alan Palmer as a director. Alan is co-founder and chief …

Asthma treatments that target genetic variants found in people susceptible to the condition could be available within the next ten …

AstraZeneca’s new oral treatment for rheumatoid arthritis has produced solid results in a phase II trial. Fostamatinib is the first …

Novartis’ new multiple sclerosis treatment Gilenya has been approved by the FDA, and is set to significantly alter the way …

Data for Sanofi-Aventis’ injectable lixisenatide suggests it could rival Novo Nordisk’s drug Victoza.Lixisenatide is a once-daily GLP-1 receptor agonist, and …

Businesses including drug companies are seen as broadly untrustworthy or self-serving when it comes to medical research. This is one …

A successful market access strategy requires the close collaboration of all functions within a pharmaceutical company. Most notably, the triumvirate …

Transition Therapeutics is to abandon trials of its new diabetes treatment TT-223 following disappointing trial results. The Canadian biopharma company …