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Lundbeck files for EMA approval of vortioxetine for depression

Friday, September 21, 2012 01:34 PM

H. Lundbeck, an international pharmaceutical company, has submitted a marketing authorization application (MAA) to the EMA for the approval of the investigational multimodal antidepressant vortioxetine (Lu AA21004), and the dossier has been accepted for review.

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Takeda completes its Russian pharmaceutical manufacturing facility

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 09:39 AM

Takeda Pharmaceutical International, a Zurich-based wholly owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, has completed construction at its pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Yaroslavl, Russia.

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Modulation Therapeutics receives $500,000 from MMRF for cancer treatment

Monday, June 11, 2012 11:54 AM

The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) has awarded $500,000 through its Biotech Investment Award (BIA) program to Modulation Therapeutics, an early-stage pharmaceutical company which has licensed MTI-101 from the Moffitt Cancer Center.

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Takeda to acquire Multilab in Brazil

Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:31 AM

Takeda Farmacêutica Brasil, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical, has agreed to acquire Multilab Industria e Comercio de Produtos Farmaceuticos of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Seattle Genetics, Millennium, Ventana collaborate on companion diagnostic test for Adcetris

Friday, April 13, 2012 12:37 PM

Seattle Genetics and Millennium, a subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical, have formed a collaboration with Ventana Medical Systems, a member of the Roche Group, through which Ventana will seek to develop, manufacture and commercialize a molecular companion diagnostic test with the goal of identifying patients who might respond to treatment with Adcetris based on CD30 expression levels in their tissue specimens.

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Takeda to acquire URL Pharma

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 09:53 AM

Takeda America Holdings (a subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical) has agreed to acquire URL Pharma, a Philadelphia-based specialty pharmaceutical company, for an upfront payment of $800 million and future performance-based contingent earn out payments. URL Pharma will be managed by Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA of Deerfield, Ill.

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Presage and Millennium enter cancer research agreement

Monday, April 9, 2012 09:59 AM

Presage Biosciences, a Seattle, Wash.-based company that identifies clinically viable oncology drug combinations, has entered into a cancer research agreement with Millenium, Takeda’s oncology arm based in Cambridge, Mass.

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Takeda joins SGC, funds drug research

Friday, April 6, 2012 11:34 AM

Takeda Pharmaceutical has joined the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), based at the Universities of Toronto and Oxford, England, to fund collective drug research aimed at bringing new, more effective medicines to market faster.

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Amgen, AstraZeneca to develop and commercialize inflammation portfolio

Monday, April 2, 2012 04:38 PM

Amgen and AstraZeneca have agreed to jointly develop and commercialize five monoclonal antibodies from Amgen's clinical inflammation portfolio (AMG 139, AMG 157, AMG 181, AMG 557 and brodalumab (AMG 827)).

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Takeda establishes development center in China

Friday, February 10, 2012 09:54 AM

Takeda Pharmaceutical has established the Takeda Shanghai Development Center ("TSDC") within the Shanghai-based Takeda (China) Holdings (TCH), a wholly owned subsidiary of Takeda.

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