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Janssen to develop, commercialize Astellas’ ASP015K for immunologic diseases

Wednesday, October 3, 2012 09:52 AM

Janssen Biotech and Astellas Pharma have formed a license agreement whereby Janssen gains the exclusive right to develop and commercialize ASP015K, an Astellas compound, worldwide except for Japan.

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BioInvent focuses its business, reduces staff

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 01:54 PM

Sweden-based BioInvent International has decided to focus its operations with the aim of achieving self-financing of the business before external costs for future new clinical studies. Its development of proprietary antibody drugs will concentrate primarily on developing new cancer drugs, resulting in a clear indication focus. The company currently has five agreements with major companies based on products from the antibody library, n-CoDeR. It will increase the efforts to create new n‑CoDeR agreements for clinical programs and continue to develop existing partnerships.

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Merck Serono: 40% of Geneva staff have job prospects

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 01:50 PM

Merck Serono has provided an update on the redeployment of its Geneva-based staff, 100 days after announcing its decision to close the site. As of Sept. 28, job prospects have been clarified for more than 500 employees, or 40% of Geneva-based employees:

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Evotec, Bayer form multi-target alliance to fight endometriosis

Monday, October 1, 2012 02:57 PM

Evotec, a German drug discovery alliance and development partnership company, and Bayer have entered into a five-year, multi-target collaboration with the goal of developing three clinical candidates for the treatment of endometriosis.

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UPMC selects Oracle to power enterprise healthcare analytics initiative

Monday, October 1, 2012 02:49 PM

UPMC, a $10 billion integrated global health enterprise based in Pittsburgh, Penn., has selected Oracle Health Sciences applications and Oracle technology and hardware as a key part of the foundation for its new five-year, $100 million enterprise healthcare analytics initiative.

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Sanofi selects Bioclinca’s Onpoint as enterprise CTMS

Monday, October 1, 2012 02:15 PM

Pharmaceutical company Sanofi has selected global provider of clinical trial management services BioClinica’s OnPoint as the company’s standard clinical trial management system (CTMS). With this decision, Sanofi plans to utilize OnPoint CTMS for all clinical trial management activity.

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The CenterWatch Monthly, October 2012

Monday, October 1, 2012 01:22 PM

CRCs workload up: relative pay declining

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ICON adds two to leadership teams in Asia Pacific and Latin America

Friday, September 28, 2012 02:47 PM

ICON,a global provider of outsourced development services, has appointed new members to its Asia Pacific & Latin American teams. New members include Wei Ming Goh as vice president of Asia Pacific and Dennis Hurley as vice president of Latin America.

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Medtronic to acquire China Kanghui Holdings

Friday, September 28, 2012 02:32 PM

Medtronic, a global medical technology company based in Minneapolis, Minn., has agreed to acquire China Kanghui Holdings for approximately $816 million in cash ($30.75 per American depository share). The total value of the transaction, net of Kanghui's cash, is expected to be approximately $755 million.

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Medicago, Philip Morris ink agreement for flu vaccines in China

Friday, September 28, 2012 11:11 AM

Medicago, a Canadian biopharmaceutical company focused on vaccines, has signed a licensing agreement with Philip Morris Products, a subsidiary of international tobacco company Philip Morris International.

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