Merck

Apr 27, 2017

Merck sells biosimilars business to Fresenius Merck has divested its biosimilars business to fellow German drug maker Fresenius in a deal potentially worth 670 million euros. The drug maker said the move is aligned with a strategy of focusing on innovative medicines while enabling it to exploit its biosimilars portf...

Mar 24, 2017

Targeted therapy is the most preferred option for cancer treatment and a number of new targets are being discovered which target cancer specific receptors, AKT being one of them. Protein kinase B (PKB), also known as AKT, belongs to serine/threonine protein kinase superfamily. AKT has been validated as a potential t...

Mar 07, 2017

NPPA slams pharma giants for overcharging The price regulator in the pharmaceutical industry, National Pharmaceutical Price Authority (NPPA) has discovered that the leading Pharma companies are overcharging customers for abundantly prevalent drugs in the market. NPPA has alleged that the listed 634 drugs are being s...

Nov 29, 2016

EC grants marketing authorisation for Takeda’s Ninlaro capsules The European Commission (EC) has granted conditional marketing authorisation for Takeda Pharmaceutical’s Ninlaro capsules. The oral proteasome inhibitor is indicated in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone for adult patients with multiple mye...

Nov 07, 2016

Merck provided substantial evidence of safety and effectiveness for the approval of bezlotoxumab in June 2016 to the FDA, and the administration’s Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee voted 10 to 5 with 1 abstention to recommend its approval. In October 2016, bezlotoxumab commercialized as Zinplava, got approved b...

Sep 28, 2016

Merck is a leading science and technology company, and has many projects that are involved in research to find treatments for diseases that are hard to treat. Keeping in view with this agenda, Merck has announced that the new research that has been conducted from their marketed and pipeline compounds will be present...

Sep 16, 2016

Piramal buys another U.S. manufacturer operation India’s Piramal has decided to have a manufacturing operations based in the U.S., and has now bought another operation after it bought a sterile manufacturing operation last year. The company bought Midwestern-based CDMO for $42.95 million in cash, with an additional ...

Jul 25, 2014

The industry's 10 biggest-selling cancer drugs generated combined sales of $37.4billion in 2013, with Roche's Rituxan, Avastin and Herceptin franchises extending their lead at the top of this league table. With combined sales of around $21 billion, these three drugs alone accounted for approximately 56 percent of t...