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A United Nations-backed campaign to stop deadly outbreaks of measles in southern Sudan has passed a key milestone, with over 1 million children immunized since November 2005, according to Abdullahi Ahmed, head of the World Health Organization's (WHO) southern Sudan office.
New Jersey-based Schering-Plough will establish Schering-Plough Produtos Farmaceuticos Limitada, a wholly-owned operation based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to market its core products, and will restructure its agreement with Brazilian drugmaker Mantefarma, the company announced.
Swiss drugmaker Roche and German drugmaker Evotec have formed an alliance to jointly discover and develop compounds against a target for central nervous system (CNS) diseases and other indications, the companies announced.
ISTA Pharmaceuticals, a California-based company that focuses on ophthalmic products, has exclusively licensed the North American rights to two new product candidates, iganidipine, a calcium channel blocker, and a new formulation of latanoprost, a prostaglandin, from Japan's Senju Pharmaceuticals.
Baxter AG and Jerini AG today announced progress in their collaborative research program to develop a non-intravenous therapy for the treatment of hemophilia.
Newly-formed Sentry Logistic Solutions has built its first bridge, forming a partnership with BioStorage Technologies to offer global biopharma companies the first cold chain storage/logistics service that spans all phases of drug development.
Clarient, Inc., a premier technology and services resource for pathologists, oncologists and the pharmaceutical industry, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Trestle Holdings, Inc. to purchase substantially all of Trestle's assets, including its high speed scanning technology and virtual systems.
Pliva's venture into the Indian subcontinent received a boost as it was revealed the Governor of Goa would inaugurate the newly built research and development facility of Pliva Research, India.
GeneGo, Inc., a leading provider of software and databases for systems biology, today announced that Boehringer Ingelheim has licensed its data mining suite, MetaCore, primarily for toxicogenomics research.