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Teva Canada sells Quebec facility to Halo Pharmaceutical

Monday, April 2, 2012 11:01 AM

Teva Canada has finalized an agreement under which Halo Pharmaceutical, a contract manufacturing organization based in Whippany, N.J., will acquire Teva's manufacturing facility in Mirabel, Quebec.

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Daiichi forms diabetes alliance with NGM Biopharma

Friday, March 30, 2012 03:07 PM

Tokyo-based Daiichi Sankyo has formed a partnership with San Francisco-based NGM Biopharmaceuticals to research and develop new treatments for diabetes.

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Roche increases offer for Illumina $51 per share

Friday, March 30, 2012 09:17 AM

Roche has increased its offer price for all outstanding publicly-held shares of Illumina, $51 per share in cash. All other terms and conditions of the tender offer remain unchanged.

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Bausch + Lomb acquires ISTA Pharmaceuticals

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 10:47 AM

Bausch + Lomb, the global eye health company, has signed a definitive agreement to buy ISTA Pharmaceuticals for $9.10 per share in cash, or an approximate total of $500 million. The transaction was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2012.

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Celtic launches $50 million antibody drug conjugates company

Monday, March 26, 2012 12:19 PM

Celtic Therapeutics Management, a global private equity firm focused on novel therapeutic product candidates, has announced a significant commitment to Antibody-Drug-Conjugate (ADC) products with the launch of a new Lausanne, Switzerland-based company, ADC Therapeutics Sarl.

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Valeant Pharmaceuticals to acquire Natur Produkt in Russia

Monday, March 26, 2012 10:58 AM

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International has signed a $180 million agreement to acquire Natur Produkt International, a specialty pharmaceutical company in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Bend Research launches biotherapeutics development initiative

Monday, March 26, 2012 10:52 AM

Bend Research, an independent drug-formulation development and manufacturing company based in Bend, Ore., has launched an initiative to expand its scientific and engineering expertise into biotherapeutics.

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Anaphore acquires RuiYi in Shanghai for GPCR biologics

Friday, March 23, 2012 03:55 PM

Anaphore, a pharmaceutical company based in La Jolla, Calif., has acquired Shanghai-based RuiYi, bringing the company a biologics drug discovery platform focused on biologic therapies targeting G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). 

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Emergent receives NIAID grant for TB vaccine

Friday, March 23, 2012 01:06 PM

Emergent BioSolutions has received a multi-year grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to advance the development of MVA85A, a candidate vaccine against tuberculosis (TB).

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Survey reveals pharma execs think "the business model is broken"

Thursday, March 22, 2012 06:43 AM

Confirming pessimism about the state of the pharmaceutical industry, a recent survey of U.S.- and E.U.-based pharmaceutical sales and marketing executives reveals that 68% believe "the current business model is broken."

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