Research and Development

US biopharmaceutical company Bind Biosciences has appointed Dr Ed Schnipper as chief medical officer. Dr Schnipper joins the company with …

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

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

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

Roche’s blockbuster oncology drug Avastin has met its primary endpoint of improving progression-free survival in women with ovarian cancer in …

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

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

New data on the performance of the pharmaceutical industry shows efforts to raise productivity have not yet made an impact. …

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

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

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

The traditional drug development paradigm is protracted and costly, with many products failing to deliver commercial or clinical success.We propose …

Boehringer Ingelheim has been cheered by phase III data showing its new oral once-daily type II diabetes tablet linagliptin significantly …

Blood clots are a major killer, but the threat they pose is poorly understood by the general public compared to …

Sanofi-Aventis has signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with US-based diabetes specialist Metabolex for a novel oral anti-diabetic treatment. MBX-2982 …