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SYNthesis med chem opens new facility in Cambridge, U.K.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013 01:41 PM

Global CRO SYNthesis med chem, a provider of synthetic and medicinal chemistry services, has opened a new facility at the Babraham Research Campus in Cambridge, U.K.

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Recordati acquires Laboratorios Casen Fleet

Wednesday, September 11, 2013 01:40 PM

Recordati, an international pharmaceutical group, has acquired Laboratorios Casen Fleet, a Spanish pharmaceutical company headquartered in Madrid with production facilities in Zaragoza. The transaction is valued at $123.3 million and will be funded from existing liquidity.

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Amicus Therapeutics, Biogen Idec collaborate for Parkinson's disease

Wednesday, September 11, 2013 01:38 PM

Amicus Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing therapies for rare and orphan diseases, is collaborating with Biogen Idec to discover, develop and commercialize novel small molecules for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. The collaboration will build upon preclinical studies at Amicus and independent published research that suggest increasing activity of the lysosomal enzyme glucocerobrosidase (GCase) in the brain may correct alpha-synuclein pathology and other deficits associated with Parkinson's.

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Almac launches TruSight tumor profiling next-generation sequencing service

Wednesday, September 11, 2013 01:37 PM

Almac has launched a tumor profiling service running Illumina’s next-generation sequencing (NGS) TruSight Tumor panel as part of their biomarker discovery, development and delivery solutions.

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Roche, Inovio Pharmaceuticals partner

Wednesday, September 11, 2013 01:35 PM

Roche and Inovio Pharmaceuticals have entered into an exclusive worldwide license agreement to research, develop and commercialize Inovio's multi-antigen DNA immunotherapies targeting prostate cancer and hepatitis B. The licensed compounds are currently in preclinical development.

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Certara, Critical Path Institute partner

Wednesday, September 11, 2013 01:33 PM

Certara, a provider of software and scientific consulting services to improve productivity and decision-making from drug discovery through drug development, is partnering with the independent nonprofit Critical Path Institute (C-Path) to develop a physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model of the human lung.

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Sorrento Therapeutics completes IgDraSol merger

Wednesday, September 11, 2013 01:31 PM

Sorrento Therapeutics has completed its merger with Igdrasol, a privately-held company focused on the development of cancer therapeutics. Igdrasol shareholders will receive the equivalent of 3,047,968 million shares of Sorrento's common stock. Reflecting Sorrento's recent reverse stock split, and based on the closing share price on Sept. 6, 2013, the transaction is valued at $28.2 million.

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MEI Pharma acquires rights to Pathway drug candidate

Wednesday, September 11, 2013 01:29 PM

MEI Pharma, an oncology company focused on the clinical development of novel therapies for cancer, has acquired exclusive worldwide rights to the investigational drug candidate PWT143 from Pathway Therapeutics, a privately-held pharmaceutical company, for an undisclosed upfront payment with no future milestone or royalty obligations.

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Sorrento Therapeutics licenses Biomiga Diagnostics' drug monitoring device

Wednesday, September 11, 2013 01:26 PM

Sorrento Therapeutics, a publicly-traded, development-stage biopharmaceutical company, has secured an exclusive license for the worldwide rights to Biomiga Diagnostics' proprietary therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) device for paclitaxel products. The agreement allows Sorrento to utilize the TDM device for the clinical development of individualized dosing regimens of Sorrento's late-stage compound, Cynviloq (paclitaxel polymeric micelle).

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Bayer, Broad Institute collaborate for cancer therapy

Wednesday, September 11, 2013 01:23 PM

Bayer HealthCare is collaborating with the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass. for oncogenomics and drug discovery. The Broad Institute, a nonprofit biomedical research institutes, brings together scientists from Harvard, MIT and Harvard-affiliated hospitals, and has experience in genomics, cancer, chemical biology and drug discovery. They intend to jointly discover and develop therapeutic agents that selectively target cancer genome alterations over a period of five years.

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