Janssen Pharmaceutica

FDA grants accelerated approval for Sirturo for multi-drug resistant TB

Wednesday, January 2, 2013 03:13 PM

The FDA has granted accelerated approval to Janssen Therapeutics’ Sirturo (bedaquiline) tablets for the treatment of pulmonary multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) as part of combination therapy in adults. The accelerated approval is based on the surrogate endpoint of time to sputum culture conversion.

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Janssen R&D gains FDA priority review for TB drug

Wednesday, September 5, 2012 11:32 AM

The FDA has granted Janssen Research & Development priority review to the New Drug Application (NDA) for bedaquiline (TMC207) to treat pulmonary, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in adults as part of combination therapy.

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Janssen buys exclusive access to Evotec's insulin-producing beta cells

Tuesday, July 10, 2012 04:25 PM

Evotec, a drug discovery alliance and development partnership company, has licensed a portfolio of small molecules and biologics designed to trigger the regeneration of insulin-producing beta cells to Janssen Pharmaceuticals.

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Janssen’s Nucynta meets primary endpoint in diabetic peripheral neuropathy study

Monday, May 21, 2012 02:46 PM

Janssen Pharmaceuticals has issued results from an investigational phase III study suggesting Nucynta ER (tapentadol) extended-release tablets were significantly more effective than placebo in providing pain management among adults with chronic moderate to severe, painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN).

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Index Ventures launches $198 million life sciences fund

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 09:26 AM

Index Ventures, a venture capital firm, has launched its first fund solely dedicated to making investments in the life sciences sector.

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Academic-industry collaboration seeks new drugs, treatments for autism

Monday, March 19, 2012 02:41 PM

An international consortium of scientists led by Roche, King's College London and Autism Speaks is collaborating on one of the largest ever academic-industry research projects, to find new methods for the development of drugs for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which affects 1% of children worldwide.

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Pepscan achieves milestones from Janssen

Saturday, February 11, 2012 07:53 AM

Pepscan Therapeutics, a Netherlands-based biotechnology firm focusing on protein mimicry technology, has achieved two milestones in the research collaboration with Janssen R&D Ireland, formerly Tibotec Pharmaceuticals, and received undisclosed payments. 

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Janssen, Pharmacyclics collaborate to develop anti-cancer drug

Friday, December 9, 2011 07:56 AM

Janssen Biotech, one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical companies of Johnson & Johnson, has executed an agreement with Pharmacyclics to jointly develop and market the anti-cancer compound, PCI-32765. A number of phase I and II studies with PCI-32765 are ongoing across a panel of B-cell malignancy disorders, including chronic lymphocytic leukemia, mantle cell lymphoma, and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

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Bristol Myers enters clinical collaboration with Tibotec

Friday, December 2, 2011 11:35 AM

Bristol-Myers Squibb has entered into a clinical collaboration agreement with Tibotec Pharmaceuticals, one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical companies, to evaluate the utility of daclatasvir (BMS-790052), Bristol-Myers Squibb’s investigational NS5A replication complex inhibitor, in combination with Tibotec Pharmaceuticals' investigational NS3 protease inhibitor, TMC435, for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV).

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Synexus exceeds expectations in clinical trial recruitment

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 01:53 PM

Synexus’ Pretoria clinical research center has enrolled more patients than any other site across the world in a type 2 diabetes trial for Janssen Pharmaceuticals.

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