Covance shares lift after Q4 results
The world’s largest contract research organisation, Covance, has maintained its earnings guidance for 2009 despite a slowdown in revenue growth and lower profits in the fourth quarter of 2008.
Archives for January 29, 2009
ABB launches software for QbD & PAT
ABB has launched its latest process analytical technology (PAT) software xPAT, which it claims will help companies implement quality by design (QbD) through a products entire lifecycle.
M&A fever sweeps drug industry in wake of Pfizer-Wyeth deal
Pfizer’s $68bn swoop for Wyeth looks set to start an epidemic of merger madness according to comments by Frost & Sullivan (F&S) analyst Shabeer Hussain.
Evolution of Thermo Fisher’s Darwin LIMS
Thermo Fisher Scientific hopes that the web functionality offered by the latest generation of its Darwin LIMS system will help it become the natural selection for drug makers seeking an all-in-one QA solution.
D3T aims to clean up in verification testing market
D3 Technology hopes its new SERS-based cleaning verification test, that follows FDA guidelines, will prove attractive to drugmakers looking to expedite the cleaning process and cut downtime between production runs.