Overseas customers boost China Bottles contracts
Plastic packaging specialist China Bottles (CB) says that nearly two thirds of the $3.3m worth of contracts it signed in June were with pharmaceutical companies based outside its home territory.
Archives for July 21, 2008
Internet one answer to the trial recruitment problem
The pharmaceutical industry’s poor reputation among the public, a lack of understanding of clinical research and the increasing complexity of trials are all problems affecting patient recruitment, but greater use of the Internet could be a solution,...
RNAi therapeutics market hots up
Novartis’ extension of its collaboration with Alnylam Therapeutics and Roche’s acquisition of gene silencing specialist Mirus Bio Corp for $125m (€78.5m) suggest that big pharma is beginning to recognize the commercial potential of RNAi-based therapeutics.
Pharmaceutical outsourcing: people on the move
Outsourcing-Pharma.com presents its periodic round-up of personnel changes in the pharmaceutical outsourcing arena, with senior appointments at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Parexel and GVK Bio, amongst others.
Amgen taps Jubilant for drug discovery services
India's Jubilant Biosys, a subsidiary of Jubilant Organosys, has scored a major deal with US biotech giant Amgen for the provision of early-stage drug discovery services.
Contract manufacturing news in brief
CMC ICOS, PharmEng, HollisterStier and RxElite are among the contract manufacturing organisations (CMOs) with news updates over the last few days.
Digitek, heparin and the likelihood of lawsuit success
The heat is being turned up on Actavis Totowa as Federal lawsuits begin to pile up following the Digitek (digoxin) recall.
MeadWestvaco and Bilcare jointly buy packaging firm
Contract packaging company International Labs has been taken over in a joint acquisition between India’s Bilcare and MeadWestvaco of the US.