CROs/Service Providers

GE Healthcare and iBio form new global alliance

Thursday, July 26, 2012 02:34 PM

GE Healthcare and iBio, a Newark, Del.-based provider of pharmaceutical product applications, have formed a new global alliance to commercialize plant-based technologies for the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals and vaccines.

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Hill-Rom acquires Aspen Surgical Products

Thursday, July 26, 2012 02:31 PM

Hill-Rom Holdings, a global healthcare technologies company, has completed the $400 million purchase of privately held Aspen Surgical Products, a Caledonia, Mich.-based provider of surgical consumable and specialty medical products.

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PAREXEL launches BioPharm Unit to serve smaller sponsors

Wednesday, July 25, 2012 09:28 AM

Boston-based CRO PAREXEL International has launched the PAREXEL BioPharm Unit, a dedicated unit focused solely on the needs of small and mid-sized biopharmaceutical companies to help achieve their development goals.

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CoreRx opens new Florida facility

Monday, July 23, 2012 02:21 PM

CoreRx, a contract pharmaceutical development organization, has officially opened its new 35,000 square foot facility in Clearwater, Fla.

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DSM inks South American biologics contract manufacturing agreement

Monday, July 23, 2012 12:46 PM

DSM Pharmaceutical Products, a custom manufacturing and technology business of Royal DSM, has signed a biologics contract manufacturing agreement with its first Brazilian client, Recepta Biopharma, a Sao Paulo-based biotechnology company focused on monoclonal antibodies to treat cancer.

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Novasep invests $3.6M to boost HPAPI manufacturing capabilities

Monday, July 23, 2012 12:27 PM

Novasep, a global supplier of manufacturing solutions to the life sciences industries, has invested $3.6 million to expand its Highly Potent API (HPAPI) manufacturing capabilities at its facility in Le Mans, France. The expansion has been designed to allow Novasep to serve the increased demand for manufacturing of novel anti-cancer therapies.

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Quintiles Global Commercial Solutions opens in Brazil

Thursday, July 19, 2012 02:36 PM

To help biopharmaceutical companies enter the rapidly growing Brazilian biopharmaceutical market, Quintiles has opened its Global Commercial Solutions business in Brazil, offering customized sales forces, market penetration strategies and product solutions.

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PAREXEL partners with Korea Drug Development Fund

Thursday, July 19, 2012 02:29 PM

Boston-based CRO PAREXEL International announced it is the first CRO chosen by the Korea Drug Development Fund (KDDF) to help Korean companies develop and commercialize healthcare products for the global market.

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Clinipace Worldwide to manage Prometheus oncology program

Wednesday, July 18, 2012 01:29 PM

Morrisville, N.C.-based Clinipace Worldwide, a global digital research organization (dCRO), said Prometheus Laboratories, a specialty pharmaceutical and diagnostic company, has awarded it an Oncology Program.  Immediate plans are commencing for two metastatic melanoma studies.  

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Mission Search International to acquire Moxie Search Group

Tuesday, July 17, 2012 12:14 PM

Tampa, Fla.-based Mission Search International, a healthcare search and physician staffing firm, will acquire Moxie Search Group.

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