Covance takes biomarker biz further
Covance is seeing the high potential of the booming market for biomarkers and has decided to devote an entire expert team to support clients with biomarker-related services.
Archives for April 1, 2007
Roche expands antibody presence with THP purchase
Roche has continued its spring spending spree with the $56.5m (€42.2m) purchase of antibody research specialist Therapeutic Human Polyclonals (THP).
GE and BAC extend purification pact
GE Healthcare and the Bio Affinity Company (BAC) have extended their biopharmaceutical partnership to develop purification media for Factor VIII (FVIII) for the treatment of haemophilia A.
Contract formulators called on to ease bottlenecks
Contract formulation firms are being increasingly relied upon to ease drug development bottlenecks being created by new drug discovery technologies.
Ranbaxy and GSK breathe life into COPD research
A drug discovery collaboration between Ranbaxy and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is bearing fruit with the companies stepping up their respiratory inflammation research.
New home for the EU's pharmaceutical quality standards
The Council of Europe has inaugurated new premises for its European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM) in Strasbourg.
Singapore growing biopharma strength
As Swiss firm Lonza announced last week that it has broken ground at its second manufacturing site in Singapore, the region looks set for growth in biologics manufacture with biological products due to take centre stage in the pharma industry over the...
Evotec willingly pays the price for drug discovery
Evotec is willing to accept significant losses, at least in the short term, as it moves from being solely a service provider, to having its own drug development programme as well.