Global report - March 28, 2017
Google-backed startup enters new partnership
Google-funded startup Calico has entred into a five-year research collaboration with the biotech company C4 Therapeutics to develop drugs for diseases of aging, including cancer. The firms will leverage C4T’s expertise and capabilities in targeted protein degradation to jointly discover and advance small molecule protein degraders as therapeutic agents to remove certain disease-causing proteins, according to […]
Global report - January 11, 2017
Takeda to acquire ARIAD Pharmaceuticals
Takeda Pharmaceutical and ARIAD Pharmaceuticals has announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Takeda will acquire all of the outstanding shares in ARIAD for $24.00 per share in cash, or an enterprise value of approximately $5.2 billion. The transaction has been approved unanimously by the boards of directors of both companies, […]
Global report - November 10, 2016
World Diabetes Day November 14th
The theme of World Diabetes Day 2016, November 14th, is Eyes on Diabetes and the year’s activities and materials will focus on promoting the importance of screening to ensure early diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and treatment to reduce the risk of serious complications. Screening for type 2 diabetes Screening for type 2 diabetes is […]
Global report - November 9, 2016
After Obama, what is the future of U.S. business and trade?
Edward Ashbee, Copenhagen Business School, speaks on postelection trade and economic policies. The 2016 U.S. presidential election was historic. The Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, was the first woman nominee of a major party. The controversial Republican Donald Trump drove some leading party figures to declare they would not vote for him. Both were unusually unpopular. […]
Global report - November 4, 2016
The Nordic-American Life Science Conference
This investor and partnering conference on December 1st gathers healthcare and technology executives and investors from the Nordic countries and North America. The event will take place at 10 on the Park in the Time Warner Center in New York and the aim is to connect promising, innovative healthcare technology companies and Nordic life science […]
Global report - October 21, 2016
Pfizer retracts articles by researcher who has left the company
A senior principal scientist for Pfizer, oncology researcher Min-Jean Yin, has departed the company and five cancer research papers in which she had a hand in crafting have since been retracted due to questionable data. This was found by Leonid Schneider, a Germany-based science writer and he posted it on his For Better Science site […]
