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Roche to invest $258M in diagnostics production in Germany

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 02:02 PM

Switzerland-based Roche has announced plans to invest over $258 million in its Penzberg biotechnology center, near Munich, Germany.

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Roche, IMI launch StemBANCC partnership for stem cells as research tools

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 02:03 PM

Switzerland-based Roche and the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), Europe's largest public-private initiative aiming to speed up the development of better and safer medicines for patients, have launched StemBANCC, a new academic–industry partnership that unites 10 pharmaceutical companies and 23 academic institutions.

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Curis licensed IAP inhibitor GDC-0917 from Genentech

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 01:54 PM

Curis, a Lexington, Mass.-based drug development company focused on targeted small molecule drug candidates for cancer treatment, has licensed from San Francisco-based Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, exclusive worldwide rights for the development and commercialization of GDC-0917, a small molecule that is designed to promote cancer cell death by antagonizing inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) proteins.

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Roche, Broad Institute to identify novel uses for failed phase II compounds

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 01:39 PM

Roche, through its Translational and Clinical Research Center, and the Broad Institute, a biomedical and genomic research center based in Cambridge, Mass., have signed a multi-year collaboration designed to identify novel indications for promising development-stage compounds using the Broad Institute's platforms of screening technologies.

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Premack joins Celtaxsys as chief technology officer

Friday, October 26, 2012 12:31 PM

Celtaxsys, a San Francisco-based, private biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of drugs to treat inflammatory disorders through innate immunity, has appointed life sciences technology expert, Brett A. Premack, Ph.D., as chief technology officer.

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EMA investigates Roche's alleged non-compliance with pharmacovigilance obligations

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 09:46 AM

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has initiated an infringement procedure against Roche Registration, following a request of the European Commission, to investigate allegations that the company has failed to comply with pharmacovigilance obligations in relation to its 19 centrally authorized medicines.

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Investigational drugs chosen for major Alzheimer's prevention trial

Thursday, October 11, 2012 07:00 AM

Scientists have selected the first investigational drugs for a worldwide Alzheimer's disease prevention trial. The pioneering study, expected to start by early 2013, initially will test three promising drugs—gantenerumab, solanezumab and an unnamed BACE inhibitor—each designed to target Alzheimer's in different ways.

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Roche, Versant, Inception pursue novel treatments for sensorineural hearing loss

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 02:03 PM

Roche has entered into an exclusive partnership with Versant Ventures,  healthcare venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, Calif., and Inception Sciences, a San Diego-based drug discovery company, to create a drug discovery incubator, Inception 3, for the treatment of sensorineural hearing loss.

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DART Therapeutics appoints executive team

Friday, September 14, 2012 01:51 PM

DART Therapeutics, a Cambridge, Mass.-based new-model biotechnology firm focused on developing therapies for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), has appointed an executive team. Members include co-founder and executive chairman Eugene W. Williams with the new title of CEO, Ernest D. Bush, PhD, as chief scientific officer., Dr. Elliot Goldstein as chief medical officer, and Cabot Brown as chief financial officer.

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CAP-ASCCP make recommendations to stadardize histopathologic terminology, guide optimal biomarker use

Monday, September 10, 2012 10:17 AM

A working group from the Lower Anogenital Squamous Terminology (LAST) Standardization Project, an interdisciplinary project led by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP), has published consensus recommendations to standardize the histopathologic terminology for squamous epithelial lesions of the lower anogenital tract associated with human papillomavirus and to guide optimal biomarker use, according to Ventana Medical Systems, a member of the Roche Group.

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