Archives for November 5, 2008

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GSK planning to reduce US sales force

UK drug major GSK is cutting approximately 1,000 US sales jobs by the end of 2008 as it reorganizes to compete in the increasingly tough pharmaceutical market.

Systech gears up for ePedigree ahead of time

By Gareth Macdonald

Delays to US ePedigree and serialization laws, which will now not be implemented until 2015, could provide an unexpected windfall for US software firm Systech International and its PES platform.

Upfront targets CMOs with new MabDirect column

By Gareth Macdonald

The new MabDirect MM Fixed D column, launched by Denmark’s Upfront Chromatography, could be a boon for CMO’s and pilot plants working in the expanding bio-processing sector.

What Obama means for pharma

By Nick Taylor

Following Barack Obama’s victory in the race to the White House, in-PharmaTechnologist.com examines what this could mean for the pharmaceutical industry.

EFCG talks excipient certification

Tim Bölke, head of the excipient taskforce at the European Fine Chemicals Group, discusses certification and the heparin scandal.

RCP unveils new UK base and EU plans

By Gareth Macdonald

RCP Therapeutics, a developer of regenerative medicine, hopes that its new HQ in the UK will benefit from the country’s status as a financial centre and proximity to cost effective trial sites in Eastern Europe.