A plan taking place in almost 80 countries Subscription per five shares entitle the employee to one matching share[1] PARIS, 12-Jun-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Sanofi launches today “Action 2018”, a worldwide stock purchase plan reserved for its employees. In doing such a … Read the full press release
Posted in France, Investment, Management, Pharma & Biotech
Tagged biopharma, Employees, health, Sanofi, shares, stock purchase plan, stock_purchase
A thousand people are needed for ground-breaking research being carried out by the University of Birmingham into an incurable lung condition. BIRMINGHAM, 12-Jun-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Supported by the British Lung Foundation, Dr Elizabeth Sapey and Professor Robert Stockley, will be … Read the full press release
University of Birmingham researchers are leading the way with a ground-breaking role to enable more children with the rare cancer neuroblastoma to access potentially life-saving clinical trials more quickly. BIRMINGHAM, 12-Jun-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — In the first dedicated position focusing on … Read the full press release
Brentford, UK, 05-Jun-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — GlaxoSmithKline plc (LSE/NYSE: GSK) today announces that it has completed the buyout of Novartis’ 36.5% stake in its Consumer Healthcare Joint Venture for $13 billion (£9.3 billion*). The transaction, which was previously announced on 27 … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Healthcare, Investment, Pharma & Biotech, United Kingdom
Tagged buyout, Consumer HealthCare, GlaxoSmithKline plc, Healthcare, Novartis, shareholders
Trial meets the primary endpoint of durable complete response Majority of patients who had a complete response had no evidence of any remaining detectable cancer cells Phase III clinical trial results served as basis for recent US FDA regulatory submission … Read the full press release
STOCKHOLM, 04-Jun-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — EQT Credit, through its Mid-Market investment strategy, is pleased to announce that it has provided the financing to support Keensight Capital and ERES’ (the “Shareholders”) investment in Biovian (or the “Company”), a leading European player in … Read the full press release
Posted in Financial, Finland, Investment, Pharma & Biotech, Sweden
Tagged acquisition, biopharmaceuticals, Biovian, EQT Credit, ERES, financing, investment, Keensight Capital, Paul Johnson
DUBLIN, 30-May-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT), the global leader in medical technology, today announced that it will participate in the Goldman Sachs 39th Annual Global Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, June 12, 2018, in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. Omar Ishrak, Medtronic … Read the full press release
Workshop with regulators from EU, Japan and US open for registration LONDON, 28-May-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Medicines Agency (EMA), the Japanese Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) and the United States’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are co-organising a workshop to discuss the development … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged antibiotics for children, antimicrobial resistance, EMA, FDA, PMDA, workshop
European Commission’s (EC) approval based on comprehensive data package confirming that Zessly® matches safety, efficacy and quality of reference medicine Biosimilars such as Zessly enable earlier patient access to important medicines and positively impact healthcare systems Zessly is the third EC … Read the full press release
Posted in European Union, Germany, Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech
Tagged Europe, European Commission, infliximab, Novartis, Richard Francis, Sandoz, Zessly®
Vevey, Switzerland, 24-May-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Nestlé has today announced changes that further strengthen its research and development operations, the largest of any food company worldwide. Nestlé will bring together its two scientific discovery units, the Nestlé Research Center and the … Read the full press release
LIVERPOOL, 24-May-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Researchers from the University of Liverpool have been awarded a £73k grant from Epilepsy Research UK to help identify brain imaging biomarkers for drug treatment response in epilepsy. Dr Simon Keller, from the University’s Institute Of Translational Medicine, … Read the full press release
Results showed Dupixent demonstrated a significant improvement in multiple asthma endpoints in two Phase 3 clinical trials in a broad population of patients with uncontrolled asthma, irrespective of minimum baseline eosinophil levels or other biomarkers of Type 2 inflammation Greater … Read the full press release
Posted in France, Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech
Tagged asthma, corticosteroids, Dupixent, New England Journal of Medicine, Sanofi
NOTTINGHAM, 21-May-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Researchers have discovered new natural compounds in a fig plant species native to Malaysia that could lead to improved treatment for resistant hypertension. Dr Kuan Hon Lim and his team from the University of Nottingham Malaysia have isolated a new class of natural compounds from a local fig plant species that induce vasodilation in aorta tissue, … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged aorta blood vessels, chromatography techniques, Dr Kuan Hon Lim, fig plant, High blood pressure, hypertension, natural compounds, resistant hypertension, treatment for resistant hypertension, University of Nottingham Malaysia, vasodilation
Brentford, United Kingdom, 17-May-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) will present extensive data from across its respiratory portfolio, pipeline and early phase research programmes at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) conference in San Diego, USA, 19-23 May 2018. Data presented … Read the full press release
Two old drugs for combatting urinary tract infections are being prescribed once more in an attempt to protect newer antibiotics from bacterial resistance, and thus preserve their effectiveness. Only one of these drugs from yesteryear appears to be as effective … Read the full press release
With millimetre precision, certain tumours can be irradiated at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI using protons – that is, positively charged elementary particles. PSI is the one place in Switzerland where this especially protective and precise option for radiation therapy … Read the full press release
SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, 15-May-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — A European Society of Cardiology (ESC) consensus statement on inflammation in atherosclerosis is published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. (1) Written by the ESC Working Group on Atherosclerosis and Vascular Biology, the document … Read the full press release
Posted in France, Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech
Tagged anti-inflammatory drugs, Atherosclerosis, cardiovascular, cholesterol, Dr José Tuñón, ESC, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, European Society of Cardiology, inflammation in atherosclerosis, Pharmacotherapy, PhysiologyPharmacology, rehabilitation, Sports CardiologyVascular Biology, statins
Holzkirchen, Germany, 04-May-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Sandoz, a Novartis division, announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a complete response letter (CRL) regarding the Biologics Licensing Application (BLA) for its proposed biosimilar rituximab. Sandoz stands behind … Read the full press release
Posted in Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech, Switzerland
Tagged Biologics Licensing Application, Biosimilar, medicine, Novartis, rituximab, Sandoz, US FDA
Kymriah demonstrated an overall response rate of 50%, with median duration of response not yet reached at the time of data cut-off, indicating sustainability of response[1] Kymriah is the only CAR-T therapy FDA-approved for two distinct indications – in non-Hodgkin … Read the full press release
Posted in Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech, Switzerland
Tagged CAR-T, FDA, Kymriah, leukemia, Liz Barrett, lymphoma, Novartis, oncology, Stephen J. Schuster MD, tisagenlecleucel
Merck today (23 APR 2018) announced that the Chinese Patent Office has issued a notice granting Merck’s patent application for the company’s CRISPR technology used in a genomic-integration method for eukaryotic cells. Patent in China covers integration of an external … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Germany, Healthcare, Law, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Technology
Tagged Chinese Patent Office, CRISPR technology, eukaryotic cells, eukaryotic_cells, genome, genomic-integration method, Merck, patent, science, Udit Batra
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