Takeda

AstraZeneca offloads headache drug Zomig to Grünenthal to raise $300M cash AstraZeneca had some positive news to announce at ASCO about its PARP Lynparza for treating breast cancer, but all in all, the U.K. company continues to struggle and so will sell yet another asset to raise cash while CEO Pascal Soriot works t...

FDA Approves Alunbrig (brigatinib) for Rare Lung Cancer Takeda Pharmaceuticals announced the FDA approved Alunbrig (brigatinib) to treat patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive (ALK+) metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have progressed on or are intolerant to crizotinib. Brigatinib is a kinas...

ALCMI, ALCF and Scancell partner to evaluate SCIB2 cancer vaccine for NSCLC The Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute (ALCMI) and the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation (ALCF) have collaborated with UK-based Scancell to assess SCIB2 cancer vaccine to treat patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). SCIB...

With $496M CNS sale, Novartis joins other Pharma companies casting off tired meds The latest Big Pharma to join the asset-sale party is Novartis, which is in talks to offload some of its older central nervous system (CNS) drugs, including Ritalin for attention deficit disorder and Exelon patch for Alzheimer’s. The p...

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...

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...

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 ...

Roche's drug candidate for Multiple Sclerosis touted to be better than Merck’s Rebif The much anticipated multiple sclerosis drug from Roche, ocrelizumab, has overtaken Merck’s Rebif according to the results of Phase III data, and has also shown great stats that could prove that it might have an edge in the hotly co...

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...