Advanced Search
Contact | Corporate | Help

Daily news email for March 02, 2010 | Click here for updated news

BioSpace
Compugen Ltd. Appoints as President and CEO

U.S. FDA Panel Backs Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Transplant Drug

Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. To Sell ScinoPharm Taiwan Stake For $94 Million

Private UK Drug Firm Archimedes Pharma Raises $97 Million; Former Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Head Appointed as CEO; US Commercial Operations to be Established

Astellas Pharma Inc. Commences Tender Offer to Acquire All Outstanding Shares of OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for $52 per Share in Cash; Bid Goes Hostile

BioSpace - Breaking News
Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Headquarters) Reports Solid Fourth Quarter Results

Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. To Sell ScinoPharm Taiwan Stake For $94 Million

CombinatoRx, Incorporated, Covidien Painkiller Exalgo Gets FDA Approval; Achieves $40 Million Milestone

NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Receives $38.4 Million for Sale of REGPARA Royalty Rights

1,200 Jobs Axed by AstraZeneca PLC in UK

Biotech News - Business Wire
RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals President and CEO to Present at 22nd Annual Roth Capital Growth Stock Conference

PHT Corporation to Convene Biopharmaceutical Industry Innovators at 2010 PRO and ePRO Conference; Keynote on Globalization and Socialization of Clinical Trials by Managing Editor of Applied Clinical Trials Magazine

Medtronic CFO Gary Ellis to Speak at the Cowen & Company Health Care Conference

Gold Standard Diagnostics Completes Series A Funding

Biomagnetics Announces Integrated Optical Biosensor Delivery Timetable
Biotech News - PR Newswire
YM sees nimotuzumab license unaffected by civil claim against licensor

Enanta Nominates EDP-239 as Lead Development Candidate for NS5A HCV Inhibitor Program

Corgenix Medical Corp. Announces Launch of Products for Automated Systems

Stanford University Medical Center Purchases Ecotones Duet Sleep Sound Machines

BioMarin to Present at the Cowen and Company 30th Annual Health Care Conference

 Biotechnology - Moreover
Hellmann launches healthcare logistics solution

Biotech Company Lands Cancer Contract

National Cancer Institute awards PDS Biotechnology $1.28M phase 2 SBIR contract

UBS Downgrades OSI Pharmaceuticals (OSIP) to Neutral

EU rules a threat to agri-biotech, warn experts

 CenterWatch - Clinical Trials
CenterWatch Monthly March 2010

Healogica to Close, Plans to Sell Trial Matchmaking Technology

Parexel Opens Third Early-Phase Unit in South Africa

Chiltern, Charles River Labs Partner on Early-phase Studies

Kendle Cutting Staff to Offset Drop in Sales
Clinical Trials - Business Wire
Hythiam to Present at the Roth 22nd Annual OC Growth Stock Conference

4medica Launches Integrated Health Record Platform

Synexus Recruits 87% Of Patients for Major Osteoporosis Study

Research and Markets: This Contract Research Organizations in Asia 2010 Report Provides a Comprehensive List of Clinical Research Organizations Throughout Asia

Over 2000 Patients Treated Globally with DFine's RF Kyphoplasty Procedure

 Clinical Trials - PR Newswire
Abbott and Enanta Announce Advancement of Hepatitis C Collaboration

TechniScan Launches 3-D Breast Ultrasound Clinical Study in Freiburg University

Cardio3 BioSciences Announces Promising Pre-Clinical Data for Proprietary C-Cath(R) Catheter

Cord Blood Registry Launches Industry-Leading Innovations for Newborn Stem Cell Collection

Researchers Find 'Micro Preemie' Infant Outcomes Improve Over Long-Term Due to Quality Improvement Collaborative

 Contract Pharma
Executive Moves: Cook Pharmica

PPD Opens Facility in Ireland

Executive Moves: Cytovance Biologics

Asterand Launches GLP Pathology Services

WuXi, J&J in Preclinical Pact
FDA Drugs- What's New
Non-Inferiority Clinical Trials

Submission of Documentation in Applications for Parametric Release of Human and Veterinary Drug Products Terminally Sterilized by Moist Heat Processes

FDA Drug Safety Communication: Ongoing safety review of Invirase (saquinavir) and possible association with abnormal heart rhythms

FDA Drug Safety Communication: Ongoing review of Avandia (rosiglitazone) and cardiovascular safety

Potential Signals of Serious Risks/New Safety Information Identified from the Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) between July - September 2009

 FDA News - Business Wire
Data from Two Phase III Studies of Merck's Investigational Asthma Drug Presented at American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) Annual Meeting

Advanced Cell Technology's RPE Cells Granted Orphan Drug Status from FDA for Treatment of Stargardt's Macular Dystrophy

Avid Radiopharmaceuticals to Present at Cowen and Company 30th Annual Health Care Conference on Monday, March 8

Impax Laboratories Receives Final FDA Approval for Generic FLOMAX® 0.4mg Capsules and Immediately Commences Shipment

Lux Biosciences Receives Acceptance of Luveniq MAA Filing from European Medicines Agency

 FDA Press Releases
FDA Announces Meeting Information and Voting Membership of the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee

FDA Update on the Investigation into the Salmonella Montevideo Outbreak - February 26, 2010

U.S. Attorney News Release: Medical Device Manufacturer Guidant Charged in Failure to Report Defibrillator Safety

FDA Update on the Investigation into the Salmonella Montevideo Outbreak - February 25, 2010

U.S. Attorney News Release: Medical Technician Sentenced to 30 Years
FDA Vaccines, Blood and Biologics - What's New
Biologic Product Shortages

Cord Blood Licensure: A Workshop

Field Correction of Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine Live, Intranasal Expiration Dating

COBAS TaqScreen MPX Test

Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine Live, Intranasal Questions and Answers

 FierceBiotech
CombinatoRx scores $40M payout on FDA approval

OSI shares soar as Astellas brawls over rejected bid

Archimedes gets $100M bankroll and names a new CEO

Gentium names CEO, closes NY office

PPD to create 250 jobs in Ireland

 FierceBiotech IT
Service aids in trial ops management

C-TASC teaches data prep for FDA filings

FDA advises on adaptive trials, simulations

Tech boosts enrollment at Parexel site

Oracle: analytics benefits to unfold in stages
FierceBiotech Research
New antiviral compound proves promising against bird flu

X Prize may offer millions for stem cell breakthrough

Researchers ready leptin test for Type 1 diabetes

Marker aids in detection of hidden cancer

Experts discuss challenges, promises of personalized medicine

 FiercePharma
Hedge funds put bucks behind Pfizer

Will OSI offer touch off a bidding war

Elan execs get $8M in stock awards

Are activist shareholders poison for biotech

Obama promises to move reform forward

 FiercePharma Manufacturing
The world's most expensive drugs

Genzyme places twice on high-cost drug list

Bioprocess experience a plus in 2010 hiring

New website serves REMS writers

Reefer services sets sights on pharma
FierceVaccines
Scientists easily create hybrid virus

Older women unlikely to benefit from HPV vax

Prevnar 13: Pfizer's next Lipitor

Decision to scrap HIV vax facility stirs controversy

DARPA providing $40M for tobacco vax project

 GEN News Highlights
Scientists Identify Sea Squirt as Model for Alzheimer Disease Research and Drug Testing

BMS Transplant-Rejection Drug Passes FDA's Advisory Panel

Metabion Licenses Polyplus-transfection's ZNA Technology for Research and Diagnostic Development

PolyTherics and Zealand Ink PEGylated Peptide Therapeutics Collaboration

Life Technologies Introduces Nanocrystal-Based Single Molecule Sequencing Technology

 Health News - BizJournals.com
Rice, IBM ink biomedical research deal

Media report: Chinoda to resign

Interleukin targeted in patent suit

YMCA hires healthy community director

Covidien to expand sales force thanks to FDA drug approval
Health News - CNBC
NPS Pharmaceuticals sells Regpara royalty rights

Sanofi-Aventis board to nominate physicist to take directorship at May shareholder meeting

Sanofi-Aventis names new member to board

Roche shareholders OK 20 pct dividend increase

Abbott, Enanta moving Hepatitis C drug development

 Health News - Fox Business
Drug Stocks Split; Sequenom Rallies On Upgrade

Dow Sells Styron To Bain For $1.63 Billion

OSI Pharmaceuticals Cut To Neutral At UBS

Bristol-Myers: FDA Panel Clears a Transplant Drug

UCB '09 Net Rose; Core Net For 2010 Seen Up 1.1%

 Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
Brent Vose Formerly of AstraZeneca Appointed Chairman of Diaceutics

Leading US Based Pharmaceutical Selects OmniComm's TrialMaster for a Phase III International Study

Surescripts Reports E-Prescription Use Jumped 181 Percent in 2009 to 190 Million

Advanced Proteome Therapeutics to Be Granted Patent by EPO and to Present at Premier Biopartnering and Investment Conference

ALDA Receives Australian Patent for T36(R) Disinfectant
MassBio News
MassBio Thanks Millennium for Making Progress Toward Winning the War on Cancer

Check out the NEW & IMPROVED W.B. Mason contract for MORE SAVINGS!

MassBio and American Cancer Society present Symposium on Progress Toward Winning the War on Cancer

Policy makers, industry leaders gather to cement commitment to life sciences industry

Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Announces 2010 Internship Challenge Program

Medical Pharma - PR Newswire
National Hispanic Council on Aging Joins the Administration in Mission to Combat Medicare Fraud By Empowering Hispanics

President Obama Gets Virtual Colonoscopy (CT Colonography) But Medicare Denies CTC Coverage to Seniors

The Right Colorectal Cancer Test for the Right Patient

Verizon Wireless' Mobile Healthcare Solutions Let Hospitals and Clinics Streamline Communications and Access Critical Data

Instacare Corp. Files Patent Application for its MD@Hand Cell Phone Centric Technologies

 National Center for Biotechnology Information
Bookshelf News

dbVar News and Announcements

Genome Reference Consortium News

HomoloGene News

Library-LinkOut Announcements
Nature Biotechnology
Industry gains on moneyback schemes

$2 million rice verdict against Bayer

Biorefineries' stimulus win

Purpose-built chromosome

FDA balks on MedImmune's cell-grown flu vaccine

 New York Times- Biotechnology
E.U. Clears Biotech Potato for Cultivation

Merck to Pay $7.2 Billion for Millipore

After a Shooting, Colleagues Try to Regain Footing

Staggered by a Shooting, a Small Biology Department Tries to Regain Its Footing

A Previous Death at the Hand of Alabama Suspect

 New York Times- Pharmaceuticals
Sheldon Gilgore, Physician Who Led Drug Giants Pfizer and Searle, Dies at 77

A Doctor’s Crusade Against Cancer

For a Drugstore, ‘Nice’ Isn’t a Panacea

Deadly Germs Largely Ignored By Drug Firms

Few Treatments on the Way
OnBioVC
ImpactRx, Inc.: Series E $1.2M

Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics, Inc.: Series B $5M

Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.: Series C $30.8M

F-star Biotech, GmbH: Series A $10.8M

Flexion Therapeutics, Inc.: Series A $9M

 Outsourcing-Pharma
SAFC preparing for inevitable shift to cell culture vaccines

Informex companies hope for a brighter 2010

MDS' sites "perfectly dovetail" with Ricerca's capacity; VP

Trial sponsors and CROs must do more to recruit older people, says EU group

Intelligent packaging can cut cost of trials; Stora Enso

 Pharma News - Business Wire
Research and Markets: Partnering Agreements with Cephalon 2010 - An In-Depth Insight into One of the Worlds Leading Biopharma Companies

Applied Spine Technologies to Present at the Canaccord Adams Musculoskeletal Conference

HealthTrans Appoints Andy Szczotka as Senior Vice President of Clinical Services

PPD eröffnet Auftragsforschungsbetriebe in Athlone, Irland

MDLinx Wins the Exclusive Distribution Right of 350,000 Verified Chinese Physician Panel
Pharma News - PharmiWeb
Patients are the winners at the Interoperability Showcase during eHealth Week 2010

Ukrainian pharmaceutical company Artur-K extends the list of provided services

Teva UK Limited Launches Generic Losartan

New data demonstrate early treatment with a combination of Enbrel® (etanercept) and methotrexate can prevent rheumatoid arthritis progression with sustained remission at two years

Clinical Research shows that Aspirin can help breast cancer patients

 Pharma News - PR Newswire
Vivus's Qnexa Will Become Decision Resources' Clinical Gold Standard in 2013 for the Treatment of Obesity

Sunridge Receives Approval for Its Non-Invasive Glaucoma Treatment in China

US Oncology Ranks 2nd in Affiliate Member Accruals for Radiation Therapy Oncology Group

Rheumatologists Have Plenty of Choice Among Biologic Agents for RA - Where Will Actemra Find Its Niche

Pacific Biomarkers, Inc. to Present at ROTH Capital Partners 22nd Annual OC Growth Stock Conference

 Pharmaceutical - Moreover
More bad allergies means more drugs

Hong Kong: Woman arrested for selling unregistered pharmaceutical product online

Deutsche Bank makes covert bid for Ratiopharm - report

PGF earnings skyrocket

Taoiseach Officially Opens New PPD Contract Research Facility
PR Leap - Biotech
SourceSolution Launches Client Portal Software, PlanIt, for CMOs/CROs and their Biotech and Pharma Clients

Vivante GMP Solutions Enters into License Agreements with Crucell

Ascent Scientific Licenses Novel Columbia University Technology for High-Resolution Optical Imaging of Synaptic Activity in the Brain

World First - Green Cell Technologies' Extraction Process reduces plant & micro-organisms to a stabilised molecular level

SourceSolution Announced Today the Launch of New Website Features Designed to Support Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Strategic Sourcing Decisions

 PRWeb - Biotechnology
ClearTrial Launches New Service to Bring Speed and Accuracy in Clinical Trial Planning Within Reach of Smaller Biopharma Companies

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and OpenHelixTM Announce an Updated Free Tutorial Suite for VISTA: Tools for Comparative Genomics

New Study: Improved Immune System with Gene-Eden, a Natural Antiviral Supplement that Targets Chronic Viruses

Implementation of Certified EHRs Biggest Hurdle for CIOs in Meeting Meaningful Use

Raising Awareness of Rare Diseases, Anson Group Announces Sponsorship of Rare Disease Day

 PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
RESolutions Rapid Enrollment Solutions, LLC Announces Launch of Novel Patient Recruitment Web Site - Clinical Trial Spotlight™

Argo Translation Offers Automatic Certification for Every Translation Project

PowerSteering Software Announces Upcoming Webcast On PPM for Product Development

Pipette.com's New Website Provides Total Pipette Management Including Sales of Pipettes and Pipette Calibration Services

Spectrum Unveils New Catalog/Handbook of USP/NF/FCC Grade Chemicals

Scientific American
Down the Hatch(ling): Nest-Raiding Snake Gulped New Born Titanosaurs

Climate Change Likely Caused Polar Bear to Evolve Quickly

Mars's Environment Shown to Be Hostile, but Not Untenable for Earthly Microbes

Cyber Bullying Intensifies as Climate Data Questioned

Could Mini Labs and Plant-Based Vaccines Stop the Next Pandemic

 Xconomy Life Sciences
Dendreon Stock Rides Roller Coaster on FDA Panel Rumor

TransMedics Wraps Up $35.4M

CombinatoRx Grabs $40M with FDA Approval

San Diego's Printer Industry Veterans Offer Some Insights Into Memjet's Technology

Ion Torrent Systems Unveils New Gene Machine, Introducing Watson to Moore's Law

 Yahoo Biotech News
EU authorises GMO potatoes (AFP)

Dog DNA Diversity Helps Show How Genes Work (LiveScience.com)

Pharmaceuticals Merck to buy Millipore for $7.2 bln (AFP)

Merck KGaA to acquire Millipore for 7.2 billion dollars (AFP)

Genes Behind Tooth Development Discovered (HealthDay)


SourceSolution © 2008-2012