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Dr Eliseo Salinas joins Elan

July 8, 2010 Research and Development Elan, appointment, research and development

Elan has appointed Dr Eliseo Oreste Salinas as executive VP and chief medical officer with responsibility for leading the company’s …
Appointment
GSK alli iPhone app

Digital Pharma: Big pharma’s iPhone apps (part three)

July 7, 2010 Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Apple, Digital Pharma blog, app, ipad, iphone

In the first two parts of Big Pharma’s iPhone Apps I looked at apps produced by 11 of the largest …
Feature

Roche submits new version of Herceptin for US approval

July 7, 2010 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Herceptin, Roche, breast cancer

Roche has submitted a new version of its blockbuster Herceptin (trastuzumab) to US regulators for approval to treat advanced breast …
News
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George Scangos to head up Biogen

July 7, 2010 Research and Development Biogen, appointment, research and development

Biogen Idec has appointed George Scangos chief executive officer, with effect from 15 July. Scangos will join the company from …
Appointment

Bind Biosciences appoints Dr Ed Schnipper

July 6, 2010 Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development Bind Bioscience, appointment, manufacturing and production, research and development

US biopharmaceutical company Bind Biosciences has appointed Dr Ed Schnipper as chief medical officer. Dr Schnipper joins the company with …
Appointment
Roche BioOncology iPhone app

Digital Pharma: Big pharma’s iPhone apps (part two)

July 5, 2010 Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Apple, Digital Pharma blog, app, ipad, iphone

Part one of Big Pharma’s iPhone Apps covered apps produced by Pfizer, Merck & Co, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis and Novartis and …
Feature

AstraZeneca collaborates on compound library

July 5, 2010 Research and Development AstraZeneca, MRC

AstraZeneca and the UK’s Medical Research Council are to share access to their compounds to improve their efforts to find …
News

Lilly set to acquire Alnara Pharmaceuticals

July 5, 2010 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Alnara, Liprotamase, cystic fibrosis, enzyme replacement therapy, lilly

Lilly is to acquire US-based biotech firm Alnara and will take hold of its lead product Liprotamase for pancreatic enzyme …
News

Ovarian cancer trial boost for Avastin

July 5, 2010 Research and Development Roche, avastin, ovarian cancer

Roche’s blockbuster oncology drug Avastin has met its primary endpoint of improving progression-free survival in women with ovarian cancer in …
News
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Aptuit deal saves GSK’s R&D unit in Verona

July 5, 2010 Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development Aptuit, GlaxoSmithKline, Italy

GlaxoSmithKline has sold off its medicines research facility in Verona, Italy, to contract research and manufacturing service group Aptuit in …
News
Pfizer Oncology iPhone app

Digital Pharma: Big pharma’s iPhone apps (part one)

July 2, 2010 Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Apple, Digital Pharma blog, app, digital pharma, ipad, iphone

Most sectors of business have been eagerly eyeing, and responding to, the potential of Apple’s iPhone, and this year’s iPad …
Feature

No sign of revival in R&D productivity

June 30, 2010 Research and Development drug development, industry, research

New data on the performance of the pharmaceutical industry shows efforts to raise productivity have not yet made an impact. …
News
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US and India advance healthcare co-operation

June 30, 2010 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing India, h1n1, medical schools

The US and India are looking to establish closer ties between their top medical schools. The initiative was one of …
News

Sanofi acquires US biotech TargeGen

June 30, 2010 Research and Development Sanofi, TargeGen, haematology

Sanofi-Aventis is to buy TargeGen, a US biopharmaceutical company which develops small molecule kinase inhibitors. The drugs are used to …
News

Contract research news in brief

June 30, 2010 Research and Development CRO

Yet more geographic expansion from leading CROs, with Kendle opening an office in India and PRA International announcing a Hungarian …
News
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