Pharmaceutical Outsourcing covers news of importance to the contract services segment of the pharmaceutical industry.
Collected from the most trusted on-line resources, these news stories are chosen and published here based on their relevance to the pharmaceutical industry.
Topics of interest typically include: mergers and acquisitions, service additions, new capabilities, personnel changes, news from the FDA and other international regulatory and standard-setting agencies, and new outsourcing contracts and deals.
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Wednesday, December 07, 2016
Biothera Pharmaceuticals has announced an expansion of its research collaboration with Merck (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada) to include a Phase 2 clinical study investigating Biothera’s Imprime PGG in combination with KEYTRUDA® (...
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Wednesday, December 07, 2016
MilliporeSigma will provide its Provantage® End-to-End services to Acticor Biotech SAS for accelerated development and manufacturing of Acticor's antibody fragment used for the primary treatment of ischemic stroke.
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Wednesday, December 07, 2016
Idifarma has acquired a Bosch GKF-702 capsule filling machine, capable of manufacturing from 3,000 to 42,000 capsules per hour. The new equipment will be installed at the CDMO’s EU-GMP approved plant in Pamplona, Spain, in early 2017.
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Wednesday, December 07, 2016
Saneca Pharma is driving forward with new research and development initiatives for the manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) following a €1.5 million grant from the Slovak Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport.
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Monday, December 12, 2016
Grünenthal Group has entered into a definitive agreement with Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd., the European subsidiary of Tokyo-based Astellas Pharma Inc., for the exclusive rights to the dermal patch Qutenza® (capsaicin 8%) in Europe, Middle East and ...
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Monday, December 12, 2016
Eurofins Genomics has announced the U.S. launch of its EXTREmer oligonucleotides, extremely long oligos that are developed using high-fidelity synthesis chemistry on the company's new DNA synthesis platform. Designed for synthetic biology, next-...
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Monday, December 12, 2016
Charles River Associates, a worldwide provider of economic, financial, and management consulting services, announced that Justus Dehnen has joined the firm as a vice president in the Life Sciences Practice based in Munich. Mr. Dehnen specializes in ...
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Monday, December 12, 2016
Univar, a global chemical distributor and provider of value-added services named Eric Foster as chief information officer and Nick Powell as president, EMEA & APAC.
Foster succeeds Erik Viens and Powell succeeds Christopher Oversby, both of whom are...
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Monday, December 12, 2016
Catalent Pharma Solutions, a global provider of advanced delivery technologies and development solutions for drugs, biologics and consumer health products, has joined the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative (PSCI).
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Monday, December 12, 2016
Purdue Pharma L.P. and Exicure, Inc. have announced a strategic research collaboration, option and license agreement to discover and develop a treatment for psoriasis, and other diseases amenable to a gene regulation approach utilizing Exicure’s ...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016
ConverGene has entered into an exclusive license agreement with the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), part of the National Institutes of Health. Under this agreement, ConverGene has the rights to commercialize jointly ...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016
PROTAGEN AG, a provider of pharma development services, companion diagnostics and novel diagnostic tests in the fields of immuno-oncology and autoimmune disease, has announced the launch of NavigAID SSc, a disease stratification assay designed to ...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Recipharm has appointed Anders Högdin and Aaron Small to lead the growth of its pharmaceutical development services business in the US and Europe.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Whitehouse Laboratories, a division of AMRI, announced the addition of Disinfectant Efficacy testing capability to its Microbiology Laboratory. Clients will now have the opportunity to test their disinfectants for effectiveness based on AOAC and USP ...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016
The Wisconsin Technology Innovation Initiative (Wi2), a non-profit organization formed to support the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Orion Corporation, a Finnish pharmaceutical and diagnostics ...
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