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MRC Tech, SIBCB collaborate on drug discovery

Friday, December 7, 2012 11:14 AM

MRC Technology, a technology transfer charity and company, has entered into a strategic drug discovery collaboration with the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (SIBCB), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS).

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Prize4Life launches PRO-ACT, largest ALS trials database ever created

Friday, December 7, 2012 10:42 AM

Prize4Life, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating discovery of treatments and a cure for ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease), launched the PRO-ACT (Pooled Resource Open-Access ALS Clinical Trials) database, the largest ALS clinical trial database ever created.

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CoreLab enters early Alzheimer's imaging market space

Friday, December 7, 2012 10:19 AM

CoreLab Partners, an independent core lab providing centralized cardiac safety services and medical imaging assessment, has launched new imaging capabilities targeted at the utilization of independent central image review in the detection of early Alzheimer’s disease.

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BBK Worldwide announces two hires to client services dept

Thursday, December 6, 2012 02:57 PM

BBK Worldwide, the recognized global leader in patient recruitment, recently hired Rebecca Panzer and Lindsay Court to the company’s client services department. Panzer and Court will contribute their knowledge and expertise in managing day-to-day client team activities.

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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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INC Research launches strategic advisory services unit

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 12:02 PM

INC Research, a therapeutically focused CRO, has launched INC Research Strategic Advisory Services, a new global business unit dedicated to providing biopharmaceutical customers with world-class consulting capabilities in the areas of drug development and commercialization, regulatory consulting and submissions and quality assurance.

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UAE, Merck Serono, Neopharma form first pharmaceutical production agreement

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 11:35 AM

Merck Serono, a division of Germany-based Merck, and a local manufacturer, Neopharma, have formed the first partnership of its kind to locally produce Merck branded medication in the UAE for distribution across the Middle East.

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Baxter to acquire Gambro, enhance renal therapies portfolio

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:40 AM

Baxter International, a global healthcare company, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Gambro, a privately held dialysis product company based in Lund, Sweden, for total consideration of approximately $4 billion.

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Emmaus Medical completes enrollment for phase III sickle cell disease trial

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:11 AM

Emmaus Medical, a specialty pharmaceutical and regenerative medicine company, has completed patient enrollment for its phase III clinical trial to study L-glutamine as a treatment for sickle cell disease.

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ALS TDI, Gladstone Institutes to discover potential ALS treatments

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 09:44 AM

The ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI), aimed at developing effective therapeutics that slow or stop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and the Gladstone Institutes, a nonprofit biomedical-research organization, have formed a research collaboration to speed the discovery of potential treatments for ALS through the preclinical drug development process.

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