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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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ImaginAb, Lundbeck to collaborate in neurodegeneration

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:49 PM

ImaginAb, an Inglewood, Calif.-based clinical-stage company developing in vivomolecular imaging agents, has entered into a collaboration and commercialization agreement with Lundbeck, an international pharmaceutical company, on a novel central nervous system (CNS) target in order to explore the use of re-engineered antibodies to accelerate the blood-brain barrier (BBB) transport of biologics.

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Almac, DSM sign collaboration agreement in biocatalysis

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:24 PM

Global service provider Almac has signed a collaboration agreement with DSM Pharmaceutical Products, the custom manufacturing and technology business of Royal DSM, in the field of biocatalysis to provide sustainable manufacturing services to the pharmaceutical industry.

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Aeras, GSK to jointly advance TB vaccine

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 11:56 AM

Aeras, a fully-integrated tuberculosis (TB) vaccine development organization, has signed an agreement with global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline to jointly advance the clinical development of an investigational TB vaccine containing GSK's proprietary M72 antigen and AS01E adjuvant. 

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QRxPharma inks strategic collaboration with Paladin Labs

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 11:31 AM

QRxPharma, a commercial-stage specialty pharmaceutical company based in Bedminster, N.J., signed a licensing agreement with Paladin Labs, specialty pharmaceutical company based in Montreal, for the Canadian commercialization rights to Moxduo, a patented, immediate-release formulation of morphine and oxycodone. 

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Nextrials, InClin partner to provide next gen clinical research services

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 10:38 AM

Nextrials, a clinical research software and services company based in San Ramon, Calif., has formed a partnership with InClin, a specialized CRO of Los Altos, Calif., to provide next generation clinical research services.

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Noven initiates phase II study of investigational d-ATS for ADHD

Monday, October 8, 2012 08:00 AM

Noven Pharmaceuticals, a a specialty pharmaceutical company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical, has commenced a phase II study of a d-Amphetamine Transdermal System (d-ATS) for the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents.

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Takeda to acquire LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals

Friday, October 5, 2012 02:31 PM

Osaka, Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical’s wholly-owned subsidiary Takeda America Holdings will acquire LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals of Bozeman, Mont., for an upfront payment of $60 million, with future contingent consideration based on the progress of development projects.

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The Medicines Company discontinues phase IIb trial

Friday, October 5, 2012 02:27 PM

The Medicines Company has voluntarily discontinued its phase Iib, dose-ranging study of MDCO-2010, a serine protease inhibitor being developed to reduce blood loss during surgery. This action was taken in response to serious unexpected patient safety issues encountered during the trial, which so far had recruited 44 of a planned 90 patients in the first stage of the study.

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