Collaboration - April 1, 2014
Mercodia collaborates with Chinese biotech company
Swedish biotech company Mercodia has announced a strategic collaboration with Chongqing Zhongyuan Biotechnology Co in China.
Drug Development Pharma - April 1, 2014
FDA approves Sobi’s Alprolix
Sobi’s partner Biogen Idec have announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Alprolix.
Agreement - April 1, 2014
Index Pharmaceuticals signs deal with Almirall
The two companies have entered into a license agreement for European rights of the phase III drug candidate Kappaproct.
Collaboration - March 31, 2014
AstraZeneca and MRC enter collaboration
AstraZeneca and the Medical Research Council (MRC) have entered into a collaboration aimed at better understanding the mechanisms of human disease. The collaboration will see the creation of a joint research facility at AstraZeneca’s new R&D centre in Cambridge in the UK. The AstraZeneca MRC UK Centre for Lead Discovery will sit within the new AstraZeneca […]
Collaboration - March 31, 2014
Novo Nordisk launches diabetes program
Novo Nordisk has announced the launch of ‘Cities Changing Diabetes’, a new partnership program to fight the urban diabetes challenge. Initially, the program will be launched in Mexico City with other cities in North America, Europe and Asia soon to follow. “The global diabetes epidemic is an emergency in slow motion. While there are many factors […]
Biotech article - March 31, 2014
No preliminary investigation on Active Biotech
In the end of February Active Biotech was reported to the Swedish Economic Crime Authority, which has now decided not to precede with a preliminary investigation. The complaint to the Swedish Economic Crime Authority came from the organization INDEIN (Investigation Development for Investors). As reported in the web edition of the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan Active Biotech […]