Archives for June 19, 2003

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Invesprint sells stake in packager

Canadian label printer Invesprint has sold its 65 per cent interest in Jay Packaging Group, handing 100 per cent control of the latter firm to its senior management team

E-logbook cuts out wrist strain

CT Consulting Group has developed a new electronic logbook system for the drug industry that enables R&D teams and quality control labs to maintain lab and GMP notebooks on computer

Biogen draws back from Danish investment

US biotechnology company Biogen has decided to postpone construction of a large production plant at Hillerød in Denmark, just three months after breaking ground on the facility

GeneMedix links with Malaysian firm for insulin production

GeneMedix and Penang Development of Malaysia have signed a letter of intent that will see the two establish a new company in the latter country's second city, at a cost of $34 million (€29m), for the development, manufacture and commercialisation of...

PPL hits the rocks as Bayer jumps ship

Transgenic drug production company PPL Therapeutics has been rocked by a decision by Germany's Bayer to walk away from their protein development partnership, placing the future of the Scottish firm at risk

MediGene's R&D quits USA for Germany

MediGene is relocating the entire research department of its US subsidiary to Germany, delighting those who lament the "brain drain" of scientific talent flowing in the other direction