Research and Development

Two rival drugs have both shown benefits over warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation, according to new research. Boehringer Ingelheim’s …

WuXi Pharmatech, one of China’s leading contract research organisations, has been motoring ahead in recent quarters while its western counterparts …

Former Roche pharma chief executive Bill Burns has joined the board at Shire as a non-executive director. Burns has also …

Dr Michael Capaldi has joined Scottish life sciences research hub Edinburgh BioQuarter as director of commercialisation. He will lead a …

GlaxoSmithKline has appointed Jean Stephenne chairman of GSK Biologicals, the company’s global vaccines division.He is currently president and general manager of …

Our round-up of developments in the contract research sector includes updates from Kendle, Bilcare, Quintiles, Melbourn Scientific, Lonza, and Medidata …

Pfizer has suffered late-stage trial failures for Sutent and lung cancer candidate figitumumab. Kidney cancer drug Sutent (sunitinib) failed to …

GlaxoSmithKline has formed a second strategic alliance with Cellzome to research new treatments for inflammatory diseases. GSK will buy into …

French biotech company Transgene has signed a deal with Novartis for the future development and marketing of its potential lung …

Contract research organisation PPD has officially opened its new research laboratory in Athlone, Ireland, and started recruiting for the first …

Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca are to embark on a five-year study of Onglyza in type II diabetes patients who may …

Abbott is to acquire US company Facet Biotech in a $450 million deal that will boost its oncology and immunology …

Workers at a GlaxoSmithKline R&D facility in Verona, Italy, have taken to the streets to protest a decision to close …

AstraZeneca’s developmental oncology drug Recentin has failed to meet its primary endpoint in a phase II/III study. The once-daily oral …

Pfizer has partnered with King’s College London to create an open innovation laboratory for pain research.The project will include a …