Pfizer

For Inflectra launch, Pfizer uses 'hybrid model' to home in on HCPs Pfizer hit the market with Inflectra, a biosimilar of Johnson & Johnson's Remicade. And with the launch came not only the beginning of a new class of copycats, but a new way to go to market. Each biosimilar, even versions of the same biologic—wh...

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...

Novartis eyes $8B Amneal buy Novartis is weighing a deal for the generics maker Amneal Pharmaceuticals to expand its already-hefty Sandoz unit, at a time when two of its biggest rivals in the field are integrating big buyouts of their own. The Amneal buy could be worth up to $8 billion. Joerg Reinhardt, chairman of ...

Phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks) were discovered in 1980, and since then drug developers have accelerated their research funds in order to find potential drug candidate for inhibiting PI3Ks for the treatment of cancers. Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases (PI3Ks) are lipid kinases that act as intermediate signaling mol...

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...

Collaboration between Sygnis AG and ECACC for licensing and distribution of Caco-2 cell line Sygnis AG enters into a collaboration agreement with ECACC to significantly expand Sygnis' Caco-2 business. Under the collaboration, ECACC will organize that companies obtain the license for the use of the Caco-2 cell line f...

Sun Pharma forms distribution partnership with Mitsubishi Tanabe in Japan In a recent strategic move, Sun Pharma formed a distribution alliance with Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation in Japan for the total of 14 prescription brands which were acquired from Novartis for $293m. The brands are Parlodel, Lamisil, Nit...

Zymeworks licenses new drug discovery platform from Innovative Targeting Solutions Zymeworks, a biotech company working on bispecific antibodies, has signed a licensing deal with Innovative Targeting Solutions (ITS) for HuTARG, which works as a protein engineering platform, and is the first fully mammalian tech that...

Antibody Drug Conjugate and Big Pharmaceutical Companies Boom Antibody-drug conjugates is gaining popularity in the Biopharmaceutical industries. As Initial trials with these targeted treatments show success, more companies are looking to produce these drugs. Although antibody-drug conjugates show promise in the d...

Get Market Intelligence of Hemophilia Market with DelveInsight The Haemophilia Market is driven by clotting factor concentrates. Besides hemophilia A and B, and those with von Willebrand disease (VWD), is also sometimes treated with clotting factor. Currently about 20,000 people have hemophilia in the US; about ...