Celgene

Celgene to acquire Avila Therapeutics

Thursday, January 26, 2012 02:46 PM

Summit, N.J.-based Celgene will acquire privately held Avila Therapeutics of Bedford, Mass., a biotechnology company developing targeted covalent drugs that treat diseases through protein silencing, for $350 million in cash.

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Rhythm names chief scientific officer

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 12:40 PM

Rhythm has named Lex Van der Ploeg, PhD, chief scientific officer. Van der Ploeg brings to Rhythm more than 25 years of drug development experience in obesity, metabolic diseases, and other therapeutic areas.

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Agios raises $78 million in financing

Thursday, November 17, 2011 11:18 AM

Agios Pharmaceuticals has secured $78 million in an oversubscribed Series C financing. The proceeds of this financing will be used to advance the company's rapidly emerging portfolio of cancer metabolism therapeutics into the clinic and to expand research and development into inborn errors of metabolism (IEMs), a group of genetic disorders with high unmet medical need.

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Foundation Medicine, Johnson & Johnson collaborate in oncology research

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 01:10 PM

Foundation Medicine has reported a collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development. The collaboration is focused on using Foundation Medicine's comprehensive clinical cancer genomic test to identify potential biomarkers to support J&JPRD oncology clinical development programs. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.

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Acceleron, Celegene collaborate

Wednesday, August 3, 2011 12:20 PM

Acceleron Pharma and Celgene have entered into a joint development and commercialization agreement for ACE-536 for the treatment of anemia. The companies already have a collaboration around sotatercept (ACE-011) entered in 2008. Under the new agreement, the companies will collaborate to develop both products and potentially others for treating anemia across a wide range of indications.

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The CenterWatch Monthly, July 2011

Friday, July 1, 2011 02:31 PM

Sponsors question variations in overhead rates

Few issues provoke more interest in clinical trial grant negotiations than the contract’s overhead rate. The range in overhead rates charged among investigative sites can leave sponsors baffled; while some independent physician-run sites ask for no overhead at all, a few top academic institutions request up to 70%. Historically, sponsor companies have paid requested overhead rates without question. Yet as sponsors have looked for ways to...

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Newer sites most optimistic about the future
Investigative sites of all sizes, from part-time physician-run sites to large dedicated research centers, report a rebound in operating conditions, according to a new CenterWatch analysis, yet sites from each subgroup indicate they have concerns…

Risk-based monitoring slow to catch on with industry
It's estimated that the cost of physically sending monitors to all investigative sites at regular intervals, a model the industry itself developed and has adhered to for about a decade, eats up one-third to one-half of…

Eye On Millennium
Millennium, The Takeda Oncology Company, discovers and develops novel treatments applying world-class recombinant technology to a wide variety of oncology disease targets…

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