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Verified Clinical Trials partners with SAFE-BioPharma

Friday, July 26, 2013 09:00 AM

Verified Clinical Trials, whose technology helps eliminate multiple enrollments by clinical trial volunteers and provides Medicare Secondary Payer Law compliance strategies, will offer its services with SAFE-BioPharma, a global digital identity management and signature standard used by many of the world’s largest biopharmaceutical companies. The company also has joined the SAFE-BioPharma Vendor Partner program, providing it with direct access to decision-makers in SAFE-BioPharma’s member companies.

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InnovoCommerce, SAFE-BioPharma collaborate

Friday, June 28, 2013 02:02 PM

The global SAFE-BioPharma digital identity and signature standard is being incorporated into the InnovoCommerce eClinical product suite used by pharmaceutical companies for their enterprise and investigator portal initiatives. InnovoCommerce is a source of eClinical collaboration products and solutions. It also has joined SAFE-BioPharma Association’s Vendor Partner program.

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Astellas Pharma joins SAFE-BioPharma

Friday, June 21, 2013 01:21 PM

Astellas Pharma has joined the SAFE-BioPharma Association, a nonprofit industry coalition responsible for the ongoing development and implementation of the global SAFE-BioPharma digital identity and signature standard. As a member, Astellas is able to utilize the SAFE-BioPharma standard. It is the first Japanese pharmaceutical company to become a member.

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Luminex, EMD Millipore extend global supply and distribution agreement

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 02:40 PM

Luminex has extended their global supply and distribution agreement with EMD Millipore—the life science division of Merck, of Darmstadt, Germany. Luminex develops, manufactures and markets innovative biological testing technologies with applications throughout the clinical diagnostic and life science industries.

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Merck announces $5B accelerated share repurchase

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 03:46 PM

Merck, a global healthcare company known as MSD outside the U.S. and Canada, has entered into an accelerated share repurchase agreement (ASR) with Goldman, Sachs & Co. to repurchase $5 billion of Merck's common stock. Proceeds from the company's recently concluded debt offering were used to execute the ASR, which is part of Merck's previously announced $15 billion share repurchase program.

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Abide Therapeutics, Merck to develop novel therapies for T2D, metabolic diseases

Friday, May 3, 2013 10:19 AM

Abide Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company pioneering innovative approaches to selectively target a group of enzymes known as serine hydrolases, has entered into a collaboration agreement with Merck, to discover, develop and commercialize small-molecule therapies directed against three novel targets to treat metabolic diseases with a focus on type 2 diabetes.

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Merck, BMS to conduct phase II trial of MK-5172, daclatasvir for hep C

Monday, April 22, 2013 02:20 PM

Global healthcare company Merck has entered into a non-exclusive agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb to conduct a phase II clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a once-daily oral combination regimen consisting of BMS’s investigational NS5A replication complex inhibitor, daclatasvir, and Merck's investigational NS3/4A protease inhibitor, MK-5172, for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, genotype 1.

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Merck opens new manufacturing facility in Hangzhou, China

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 02:05 PM

Global healthcare company Merck has opened its new pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Hangzhou, China. The facility, located in the Hangzhou Economic and Technology Area (HEDA), will package Merck medicines for China and the Asia Pacific region and will become a critical part of Merck's global supply chain. 

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William Kennedy of Genentech addresses core operational issues in pediatric trials

Wednesday, April 3, 2013 10:47 AM

Increased pressure to conduct trials in children can be daunting when faced with practical, legal and clinical considerations found only in pediatric trials. Successfully implementing regulations and ethical standards into study conduct requires a comprehensive understanding of the unique concerns raised by ethics committees, investigators and parents.

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New Jersey to hire displaced pharmaceutical workers

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 02:08 PM

New Jersey has announced a financial hiring incentive to employers through the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development (LWD) if they hire and train former pharmaceutical industry employees. Employers willing to hire displaced pharmaceutical workers may reduce the cost to train new employees under this new on-the-job training program, which will reimburse each employer up to between 50% and 90% of a new hire’s salary for up to six months and a maximum of $14,000

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