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New app can aid tropical disease treatment

May 8, 2015
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Merck, app, smartphone, tropical diseases

A new smartphone app is able to automatically detect parasites in the blood and may mark a fundamental shift in …

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Merck sales fall in Q1 despite new product lifts

April 29, 2015
Sales and Marketing Merck, Q1, Remicade

Merck’s sales were down in the first quarter of 2015 thanks to its consumer care divestment and increasing competition for …

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GSK shingles vaccine performs

April 29, 2015
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing GSK, GlaxoSmithKline, HZ/su, Merck, zostovax

GlaxoSmithKline’s HZ/su vaccine candidate for the prevention of shingles has demonstrated promising benefits across all age groups in a late-stage …

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Conference round-up: companies go big on hepatitis C at EASL

April 29, 2015
Sales and Marketing Bristol-Myers Squibb, EASL, Merck, daclatasvir, daklinza

Big pharma names posted favourable results for hepatitis C treatments as they jostled for position as market leaders at the …

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EMA approves BMS’ Opdivo for advanced skin cancer

April 27, 2015
Sales and Marketing BMS, Bristol-Myers Squibb, EMA, Merck, Yervoy, ipilimumab, keytruda, melanoma, nivolumab, opdivo, pembrolizumab, skin cancer

Bristol-Myers Squibb has earned a recommendation from the EMA for its cancer immunotherapy treatment Opdivo as a monotherapy for patients …

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Cristal Therapeutics hires chief business officer from Merck

April 23, 2015
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cristal Therapeutics, Jeroen Tonnaer, Merck

Jeroen Tonnaer has been named as the new chief business officer responsible for Cristal Therapeutics’ business development, partnering and licensing …

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Merck Serono gains head of global clinical development

April 17, 2015
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Alise Reicin, Merck, Merck Serono

Merck Serono, the biopharma business of Merck, has appointed Dr Alise Reicin as senior vice president and head of its …

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Merck hires life sciences business head

April 15, 2015
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Merck, Merck Millipore, Sigma-Aldrich, udit batra

Merck has confirmed that the current chief executive and president of Merck Millipore Dr Udit Batra has been appointed to lead …

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Merck and Pfizer to co-promote cancer drug

April 9, 2015
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cancer, Merck, Merck KGaA, NSCLC, Pfizer, Xalkori, non-small cell lung cancer, oncology

Merck KgaA and Pfizer have agreed to co-promote the latter’s lung cancer treatment Xalkori, and form a new alliance that …

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Merck Ebola vaccine safe and effective in latest trials

April 2, 2015
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Ebola, Merck, National Institutes of Health, VSV-ZEBOV, Vaccine, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, newlink

Merck and NewLink’s experimental Ebola vaccine has been found to be safe and effective in a new trial in the …

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Merck lines up early-stage Keytruda combo trial

April 1, 2015
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cancer, Merck, entinostat, keytruda, pd1, pembrolizumab, syndax

Merck is planning for Keytruda’s future by launching early-stage trials of the drug in combination with an investigational treatment from …

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Merck Serono in $826m immuno-oncology deal

March 31, 2015
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Intrexon, Merck, Merck Serono, T cell, biopharma, cart, immuno-oncology, t-cell

Merck Serono has announced a significant deal with Intrexon to develop and bring new cancer treatments to market. The German …

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EMA committee recommends five drugs for approval

March 30, 2015
Sales and Marketing Boehringer, CHMP, EMA, Eisai, Europe, Gardasil, Lenvima, Merck, akynzio, jardiance, lilly

Cancer and diabetes treatments are among those given the go ahead in the latest round of approvals by the EMA. …

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Merck’s Keytruda trial stopped early after beating BMS’ Yervoy on survival

March 25, 2015
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing BMS, Merck, Yervoy, ipilimumab, keytruda, pembrolizumab

A trial comparing two potential blockbuster cancer treatments has been stopped early, after Merck’s Keytruda beat BMS’ Yervoy in a …

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Chief executive promotion at Merck KGaA

March 24, 2015
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Karl-Ludwig Kley, Merck, Merck KGaA, Merck Serono, Stefan Oschmann, chief executive

Merck KGaA is to promote its deputy chief executive Stefan Oschmann to replace Karl-Ludwig Kley in the top job next …

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