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Deals this week: Kerecis, PharmaJet, Fimbrion Therapeutics

Kerecis and the US Department of Defence have entered an agreement to develop fish skin burn...

Deals this week: Kerecis, PharmaJet, Fimbrion Therapeutics

M&As this week: Chengdu Kanghong Pharmaceutical, Cachet Pharmaceutical, Antegrin Therapeutics

Chinese pharmaceutical company Chengdu Kanghong Pharmaceutical Group has announced its intention to acquire the remaining 7% stake in a pharmaceutical unit based in Chengdu,...

M&As this week: Chengdu Kanghong Pharmaceutical, Cachet Pharmaceutical, Antegrin Therapeutics

Report: Penetrating crowded heart failure market could prove difficult for Omecamtiv Mecarbil

Cytokinetics’ new heart failure drug, Omecamtiv Mecarbil (OM), will have to target patient subgroups in order to succeed in the crowded heart failure market, says GlobalData in its recent...

Report: Penetrating crowded heart failure market could prove difficult for Omecamtiv Mecarbil

Deals this week: ATCC, Sirenas, Nektar Therapeutics

ATCC and BioAgilytix have entered a partnership to develop assay systems, which can be used for testing drug potency, stability testing and other...

Deals this week: ATCC, Sirenas, Nektar Therapeutics

M&As this week: RXi Pharmaceuticals, TFS International, Danaher Corporation

RXi Pharmaceuticals plans to expand its product pipeline and enter the immuno-oncology market by acquiring all the outstanding shares of cancer immunotherapies developer...

M&As this week: RXi Pharmaceuticals, TFS International, Danaher Corporation

Deals this week: Nordic Nanovector ASA, Charles River Laboratories International, Transgene SA

Nordic Nanovector ASA and LegoChem Biosciences have entered an agreement to include CD37-targeting antibody drug conjugates to non-radionuclide cancer...

Deals this week: Nordic Nanovector ASA, Charles River Laboratories International, Transgene SA

Report: Major depressive disorder market to grow at CAGR of 6.1% over next ten years

The global market for major depressive disorder (MDD) is anticipated to grow at a substantial compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.1% over the next ten years, according to a report by...

Report: Major depressive disorder market to grow at CAGR of 6.1% over next ten years

Report: Global percutaneous coronary interventions market forecast to reach $8 billion by 2022

The percutaneous coronary interventions market is projected to grow at a steady compound annual growth rate of 3.5% globally, according to a report by...

Report: Global percutaneous coronary interventions market forecast to reach $8 billion by 2022

Deals this week: ClearLight Diagnostics, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, Samsung Biologics

ClearLight Diagnostics and Oregon Health and Science University Centre for Spatial Systems Biomedicine (OCSSB) have entered a co-development agreement to analyse the tumour micro-environment...

Deals this week: ClearLight Diagnostics, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, Samsung Biologics

Deals this week: Peakdale Molecular, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals

Peakdale Molecular and Cresset BioMolecular Discovery have entered an agreement to further expand the former’s integrated drug discovery...

Deals this week: Peakdale Molecular, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals

Kadmon doses first patient in Phase 2 trial of KD025 to treat chronic graft-versus-host disease

Kadmon Holdings has dosed the first patient under a Phase 2 clinical trial of KD025, which is its rho-associated coiled-coil kinase 2 (ROCK2) inhibitor to treat chronic graft-versus-host...

Kadmon doses first patient in Phase 2 trial of KD025 to treat chronic graft-versus-host disease

Deals this week: Merck, Zydus Cadila Healthcare Limited, AbbVie

Merck & Co and JenKem Technology have entered a distribution agreement to make Jenkem’s polyethylene glycol (PEG) products available for biomedical...

Deals this week: Merck, Zydus Cadila Healthcare Limited, AbbVie

Report: Rapid changes to drive osteoarthritis market to $10.5bn by 2024

Rapid changes such as the launch of new biologic therapies and novel drugs, increasing number of patients, and advancements in imaging techniques to facilitate drug development will drive...

Report: Rapid changes to drive osteoarthritis market to $10.5bn by 2024

M&As this week: Allergan, Cannabis Care Canada

Allergan plans to expand its gastrointestinal research and development (R&D) pipeline and strengthen its position in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis through the acquisition of Tobira...

M&As this week: Allergan, Cannabis Care Canada

M&As this week: Venaxis, M Pharmaceutical, Horizon Pharma

Venaxis plans to expand its business through its recent acquisition of BiOptix Diagnostics, a medical device...

M&As this week: Venaxis, M Pharmaceutical, Horizon Pharma

Deals this week: Circle Pharma, Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF), Sinchuan Languang Development

Circle Pharma and Pfizer have entered an agreement to develop a screening library of macrocyclic...

Deals this week: Circle Pharma, Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF), Sinchuan Languang Development

Report: Expanding pipeline with promising products hints growth in ophthalmology

Ophthalmology is set to witness a breakthrough due to increasingly promising products that are currently in pipeline, says a report by GBI...

Report: Expanding pipeline with promising products hints growth in ophthalmology

Lexicon announces positive top-line Phase III Tandem1 trial results of sotagliflozin to treat diabetes

US-based biopharmaceutical company Lexicon has reported positive top-line results from its pivotal Phase III Tandem1 trial of sotagliflozin to treat type 1 diabetes on a background of...

Lexicon announces positive top-line Phase III Tandem1 trial results of sotagliflozin to treat diabetes

Report: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) market to grow at CAGR of 8.5%

The attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.5% during 2014 to 2024 to reach a value of $13.9bn by 2024, according...

Report: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) market to grow at CAGR of 8.5%

M&As this week: Asahi Glass, Allergan

Asahi Glass has acquired Biomeva from Biomeva Holding to expand its...

M&As this week: Asahi Glass, Allergan

Deals this week: Cynata Therapeutics, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Cardinal Health

Cynata Therapeutics and Fujifilm Corporation have entered a term sheet for the development and commercialisation of a Cynata technology and its product...

Deals this week: Cynata Therapeutics, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Cardinal Health