News & Analysis on Clinical Trial Services & Contract Research And Development
Bristol-Myers Squibb has announced the sudden death of James Palmer, aged 51, the firm's chief scientific officer and president of the Pharmaceutical Research Institute. His death occurred after undergoing surgery. Elliot Sigal, BMS' senior vice...
Pharmasset of the US could receive funding of $168 million (€131.8m) in upfront and milestone payments - with the prospect of receiving more - after licensing its preclinical hepatitis C drug programme to Swiss drug giant Roche.
Invitrogen, which supplies reagents, services and software for the life science market, has continued its acquisitive streak with the announcement that it is paying $35 million (€27.5m) for a UK firm - DNA Research Innovations - specialising in...
Bruker Daltonics, has launched a new MALDI-TOF and TOF mass spectrometer that offers improved sensitivity, resolution and mass accuracy of TOF/TOF systems for expression proteomics, quantitative proteomics and biomarker discovery.
Qiagen has launched the world's first automated sample preparation system for viral nucleic acids to aid molecular diagnostics that conforms to a European Union Directive on in vitro diagnostic medical devices.
Accelrys has reported a decrease in revenue in the second quarter of the year. Revenues were slightly down but the company saw a substantial increase in net loss for this year, which it attributed to 'change in revenue recognition.'