Latest News & Features
Biotechnology
Biotech company Shire yesterday revealed plans to acquire a Switzerland-based plasma collection company. 7 September 2018
Americas
The misuse of federal drug programmes by branded pharmaceutical companies is costing the US healthcare system $13.4 billion per year in lost savings, a report commissioned by a generics trade group has claimed. 6 September 2018
Americas
Novartis has revealed plans to sell the dermatology business and generic US oral solids portfolios of its subsidiary Sandoz US to India-based Aurobindo for $900 million. 6 September 2018
Americas
US-based Gilead announced Tuesday, September 4 that it has entered into a licensing agreement with biotech company Trianni for an undisclosed sum. 6 September 2018
Big Pharma
International law firm Simmons & Simmons has hired a new IP team to boost its office in Milan. 5 September 2018
Americas
Italy-based research organisation IRBM has signed a new agreement with Merck & Co in the peptides therapeutics area, extending the parties’ long-standing collaboration. 5 September 2018
Big Pharma
The European Medicines Agency has reportedly put a stop to the UK’s role in evaluating new EU medicines for sale as Brexit looms. 4 September 2018
Asia
The Bombay High Court has imposed Rs 1.5 crore of costs on a pharmaceutical company which infringed India-based Glenmark Pharmaceuticals’ trademarks. 3 September 2018
Americas
A former GSK researcher has pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal trade secrets, in what prosecutors said was a scheme to benefit a Chinese pharmaceutical company. 3 September 2018
Americas
A proposal in the North American Free Trade Agreement to set the length of biologic data exclusivity at ten years would harm patients, according to generic associations. 31 August 2018