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Patient Experience: Living with type 1 diabetes

April 14, 2020 Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Interview, diabetes, feature, patient experience

23-year-old US student Madelyn Lazra recently graduated with a BA in Business Law and certification in International Business, and is …

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Pharmafile.com’s weekly COVID-19 news round-up

April 9, 2020 Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing COVID-19, coronavirus

The world looks for a coronavirus cure as Inovio begins human trials for a vaccine while another vaccine is in …

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Seres Therapeutics appoints Dr Lisa von Moltke as new Chief Medical Officer

April 9, 2020 Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing

Dr Lisa von Moltke has left Aklermes and has joined Seres Therapeutics as its new Chief Medical Officer. Chief Executive …

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Circassia terminates AstraZeneca partnership in exchange for £150m debt settlement

April 9, 2020 Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Circassia, partnership, pharma, respiratory

Circassia Pharmaceuticals has announced its decision to break away from a partnership it forged with AstraZeneca UK back in 2017 …

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Roche signs multi-billion dollar RNA-targeted drug discovery deal with Arrakis Therapeutics

April 9, 2020 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Arrakis, Roche, partnership, pharma

Roche has signed a new partnership with Arrakis Therapeutics in a bid to drive discovery of RNA-targeted small molecule (rSM) …

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Envision Pharma Group acquires healthcare comms consultancy 90TEN

April 9, 2020 Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing 90TEN, Envision Pharma Group, pharma

Global healthcare communications consultancy 90TEN has been acquired by Envision Pharma Group, it has been revealed. 90TEN said that it …

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Dr Maritza McIntyre appointed Chief Development Officer at StrideBio

April 8, 2020 Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing

StrideBio have announced the appointment of Maritza McIntyre Ph.D., as its first Chief Development Officer. The newly created role will …

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Sage Therapeutics to halve its total workforce in radical cost-cutting move

April 8, 2020 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Sage Therapeutics, pharma, staff cuts

Sage Therapeutics has revealed a radical restructuring effort to cut costs and “enable the company to advance its corporate strategy …

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Takeda’s Alunbrig outclasses Xalkori to secure EU approval in ALK+ advanced non-small cell lung cancer

April 7, 2020 Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Alunbrig, Europe, Takeda, pharma

The European Commission has ruled to expand the current approved indication of Takeda’s Alunbrig (brigatinib), authorising the drug as a …

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FDA approval for BMS and Acceleron’s Reblozyl to reduce red blood cell transfusion dependence

April 6, 2020 Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing BMS, FDA, Reblozyl, pharma

The FDA has given the regulatory thumbs-up in the US of Reblozyl (luspatercept-aamt), the “first and only erythroid maturation agent” …

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British Health Secretary says more patients with COVID-19 are needed for clinical trials

April 6, 2020 Sales and Marketing COVID-19, UK, clinical trials, coronavirus

Matt Hancock, the UK’s Health Secretary, has said that more patients with the COVID-19 coronavirus are need in clinical trials …

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European approval for Novo’s Rybelsus to control blood sugar in type 2 diabetes

April 6, 2020 Sales and Marketing Novo Nordisk, Rybelsus, diabetes, pharma

The European Commission has greenlighted Novo Nordisk’s Rybelsus (oral semaglutide) as an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycaemic …

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Trump again tells people to take Hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, despite a lack of evidence

April 6, 2020 Sales and Marketing COVID-19, chloroquine, coronavirus, hydrochloroquine, hydroxychloroquine

President Trump continues to push the drug hydroxychloroquine as a potential coronavirus treatment despite a lack of evidence for its …

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Pfizer scores EU approval for MabThera biosimilar Ruxience

April 6, 2020 Sales and Marketing MabThera, Pfizer, Ruxience, biosimilar

The European Commission has moved to authorise Ruxience, Pfizer’s biosimilar version of MabThera (rituximab). The decision marks the seventh biosimilar …

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Industry veteran Dr David Setboun joins BrainStorm as Executive VP and COO

April 3, 2020 Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing BrainStorm Therapeutics, appointments, pharma

BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics, a firm developing cellular therapies to tackle neurodegenerative diseases, has named industry Big Pharma veteran Dr David …

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