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Icon reports 10% increase in Q1 2012

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 09:45 AM

Icon, a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, has released its first quarter financial results for 2012, reporting its Q1 net revenues grew 10% year on year to $252.3 million from $229.3 million in Q1 2011.

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IMS Health acquires DecisionView

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 03:13 PM

IMS Health of Danbury, Conn., has acquired DecisionView, a San Francisco-based software solutions company that helps life sciences organizations plan and track patient enrollment for clinical trials around the world. DecisionView offers decision support tools to improve the speed, efficiency and performance of clinical trial planning and management.

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Cetero reaches final resolution with FDA

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 03:10 PM

Cary, N.C.-based CRO Cetero Research has reached a final resolution with the FDA over studies the company conducted in its Houston bioanalytical laboratory between April 1, 2005 and June 15, 2010. Following months of open collaboration between Cetero and the agency, the FDA summarized its final decision:

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Life Sciences venture capital investing falls in first quarter

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:21 PM

Venture capitalists invested $5.8 billion in 758 deals in the first quarter of 2012, according to the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. Quarterly venture capital (VC) investment activity fell 19% in terms of dollars and 15% in the number of deals compared to the fourth quarter of 2011, when $7.1 billion was invested in 889 deals.

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OrbiMed launches $222 million fund in Israel life sciences

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:18 PM

OrbiMed, a global investment management firm focused on the healthcare sector, has closed its first investment fund dedicated to life sciences venture capital opportunities based in Israel. The Fund, OrbiMed Israel Partners Limited Partnership, includes an anchor investment provided by the government of Israel, which also provided special economic terms through the initial tender process for the Fund.

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Iris Pharma, RxGen form strategic alliance

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:15 PM

Iris Pharma of France, an ophthalmic preclinical and clinical CRO, and RxGen, a Connecticut-based specialty preclinical CRO focused on the development and application of translational research models, have formed a strategic alliance to offer fully integrated “bench-to-bedside” ophthalmology research services.

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NextBio expands into translational medicine applications

Monday, April 23, 2012 02:47 PM

NextBio of Santa Clara, Calif., has unveiled NextBio Clinical, an extension of the company's existing life sciences platform to translational medicine applications such as biomarker discovery and clinical trial optimization.

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Abbott, St. Jude Medical broaden alliance for cardiovascular products

Monday, April 23, 2012 02:16 PM

Global pharmaceutical company Abbott and St Jude Medical of St. Paul, Minn., have collaborated on the Choice Alliance, a multi-year joint initiative that provides mutual U.S. customers access to a robust portfolio of interventional cardiology, electrophysiology and intravascular imaging, cardiac rhythm management and diagnostic technologies.

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FDA strengthens international collaboration to ensure quality, safety of imported products

Monday, April 23, 2012 10:53 AM

FDA commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg has released the agency’s “Global Engagement Report,” detailing the many activities and strategies FDA is using to transform from a domestic to a global public health agency.

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AZ to acquire Ardea for $1 billion

Monday, April 23, 2012 10:42 AM

Global biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has agreed to acquire Ardea Bioscience, a San Diego-based biotechnology company focused on the development of small-molecule therapeutics.

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