Press Release Archive
Archive of corporate news from the global drugdevelopment industryPress Releases By Date
May 2013
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Proven Autoclave Design a Long Runner
Top-loading laboratory autoclaves are the longest serving stalwarts of the Priorclave steam steriliser range, a 100l model being the first produced and to leave the company's factory in 1988...
Bachem Adds 11 New Research Products to Online Catalogue
Bachem is continuously expanding and updating its extensive range of biologically active peptides, amino acid derivatives, biochemicals and immunology...
Meet Biovian at BioTrinity 2013 - European Biopartnering and Investment Conference - 14-16 May 2013, Newbury, UK
Meet Biovian at BioTrinity 2013 - European Biopartnering and Investment Conference - 14-16 May 2013, Newbury,...
April 2013
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New Mammalian cGMP Cell Banking Facility Commissioned by Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies has announced that it has commissioned on time its new mammalian cGMP Cell Banking Facility (CBF) at its Billingham, UK site....
Tissue Solutions to Exhibit at 2013 BIO International Convention, Booth 4438, Apr 22 - 25, 2013, in Chicago IL, US
Tissue Solution invites pharmaceutical and biotech companies to visit booth 4438 at this year's BIO International Convention 2013. We will be showcasing our unique tissue acquisition service...
Autoclave Manufacturer Priorclave Celebrates 25 Years in Business
British autoclave manufacturer Priorclave celebrated 25 years since first opening its doors for business on the 16th February 1988 and during this period has delivered from its London...
Bachem Signs Peptide-Protein Conjugate Contract with Axon Neurosciences
Bachem and Axon Neuroscience SE today announced that the two companies have entered into a collaboration under which Bachem manufactures Axon's investigational API and supplies it as a...
March 2013
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Bachem Adds 13 New Immunology and Peptide Products to Online Catalogue
Bachem is continuously expanding and updating its extensive range of biologically active peptides, amino acid derivatives, biochemicals and immunology products....
January 2013
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13 New Products Available from Bachem
Bachem is continuously expanding and updating its extensive range of products for your research purposes....
November 2012
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Kemwell Signs Contract Manufacturing Agreement with Mercury Pharma Group
Kemwell today signs an agreement with Mercury Pharma Group for contract manufacture of pharmaceuticals in the new state-of-the-art production facility in Uppsala....
New Licensed Biopharmaceutical Manufactured by Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies has added another licensed product to its list of commercial biopharmaceutical products, following the announcement that ThromboGenics' has received FDA...
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies Partners With Piramal Healthcare to Produce Antibody Drug Conjugates
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies has announced it has entered into a strategic alliance with Piramal Healthcare UK, whereby the two parties will offer the seamless contract development...
Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Renews Bachem's Licence
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has granted Bachem AG a renewed manufacturing licence in conformity with their regulations....
September 2012
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Seven New Products Now Available from Bachem
Bachem is continuously expanding and updating its extensive range of products for your research...
New Approach Provides a Unique Way to Collect Human BioMaterials on Demand
Tissue Solutions has now been granted approval for a virtual sample collection, allowing researchers to request a range of samples on demand from ethically consented patients. These samples...
August 2012
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Bachem Well on Track in a Challenging Market
Bachem Group reported sales of 76.2m CHF for the first half of 2012....
July 2012
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Toxikon Launches Upgraded Company Website
Toxikon is a leading contract research organisation (CRO) that provides high-quality preclinical safety studies and QC testing to the life science...
Tissue Solutions Moves to West of Scotland Science Park
Tissue Solutions is moving to a new suite of offices at the West of Scotland Science Park having outgrown its current premises in...
Kemwell Oral Solids Facility Receives Health Canada Approval
Kemwell Biopharma's oral solids facility in Bangalore has been in operation since 2008 and received its first EMA approval in 2008. Kemwell is pleased to announce that it has recently...
Kemwell Reveals Expansion of New Pharmaceutical Development Labs
The India-based formulations contract manufacturer, Kemwell Biopharma Pvt. Ltd., has expanded its state-of-the-art pharmaceutical development labs in Bangalore, including a 7,500 sq ft cGMP...
June 2012
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Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies Significantly Expands Mammalian Cell Culture CGMP Capabilities
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies has announced it is further increasing its contract process development and manufacturing capabilities through the expansion of its services in mammalian cell...
Tissue Solutions Welcomes New Members to Research Committee on Psoriasis Tissue Project
Tissue Solutions are pleased to announce the addition of new members to the Tissue Solutions Research Governance Committee....
May 2012
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Meet Biovian at the Biotech Outsourcing Strategies Conference
Meet Biovian at the Biotech Outsourcing Strategies cmc2012 (BOS cmc) on 14 June 2012 at the Sohuset Conference Center, Denmark. Biovian's director of business development and projects, Dr...
Meet Biovian at Lyckad Läkemedelsutveckling in Stockholm
Meet Biovian at 'Lyckad Läkemedelsutveckling' seminar on 31 May 2012 at Hotel Grand, Stockholm, Sweden. Biovian's director of business development and projects, Dr Knut Ringbom will be...
April 2012
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Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies Invests in New Equipment and Labs at UK Facility
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies has completed the first phase of a £3m ($4.5m) investment in new equipment and laboratories at its Billingham, UK...
March 2012
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PROXY Laboratories Acquires MicroSafe Services from Merck Millipore
PROXY Laboratories (PROXY) has announced the acquisition of MicroSafe Services (Leiden, the Netherlands), from Merck Millipore, the life science division of Merck, Darmstadt,...
Tissue Solutions Achieves Certification to ISO 9001
Tissue Solutions is pleased to announce that it has been awarded ISO 9001:2008 BSI...
February 2012
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GlycoMar Releases New White Paper: Oligosaccharides in Drug Discovery
Glycobiology is concerned with the study of structure, biosynthesis, and function of saccharides (sugar chains), which may exist purely or conjugated to other biological molecules to...
Joint UK-Norwegian Support to Aid Development of Industrial Biotechnology Sector
The British and Norwegian governments are to work together to support nine new research and development projects that will create innovative processes to generate high‐value chemicals...
January 2012
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Priorclave's Compact C40 Vacuum Autoclave Now Available with Stand-Off Legs
Priorclave's Compact C40 vacuum autoclave is the first priorclave to become available with stand-off legs, providing easy access beneath the steam steriliser for cleaning and disinfection...
December 2011
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York University Awards Autoclave Contract to Priorclave
York University will soon be taking delivery of a number of priorclaves for use in the biology department's teaching laboratories and associated central wash-up and sterilising...
Priorclave Autoclave is a Success at London Vet Show
During the recent London Vet Show the autoclave supplied by Priorclave and featured on the Southwest Medical stand surprised visitors with its compact outward physical appearance and the...
Tissue Solutions, OracleBio and Histologix Join Forces to Provide Tissue to Data Biomarker Solutions
A new partnership provides tissue to data biomarker solutions. 'Our expertise provides your solutions' is the new motto being used as part of a unique and exciting partnership between...
Biognosys Collaborates with M2 to Develop Commercial MRM Software
Setting up scheduled multiplexed MRM experiments and processing MRM signals is a challenge in proteomics research. Biognosys' proprietary software mQuest / mProphet, the RT-Kit and MRMbase...
AIBioTech Assists EUSA Pharma in Obtaining FDA Approval for a Critical Drug Product
AIBioTech is pleased to announce the successful completion of an assay validation and sample analysis program which was a critical component of EUSA Pharma's Biologics License Application for...
November 2011
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New Service from Tissue Solutions Informs Researchers of Fresh Human Sample Availability
Tissue Solutions is pleased to announce a new email-based service designed to notify researchers of the availability of fresh human...
Priorclave to Exhibit its Most Popular Steam Sterilisers at Medica
UK autoclave manufacturer Priorclave will be exhibiting at next week's Medica exhibition in...
Venture Capital for Swiss Proteomics Leader: Biognosys Raises CHF2.7m in Series A Financing
Biognosys, a Swiss ETH spin-off and pioneer in proteomics, has attracted venture capital from experienced investors including Syngenta...
October 2011
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Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies and ContraFect Corporation Announce Development and Manufacturing Collaboration for Novel Anti-Staph Biologic
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies and ContraFect Corporation have announced that they have signed a contract to support the process development and cGMP manufacture of...
Biogazelle Presents the Ultimate qPCR-Based lncRNA Profiling Platform
lncRNAs represent an emerging important class of regulatory transcribed elements. The study of lncRNAs is timely and relevant, because of their implication in important cellular...
Peptide News from Bachem: pNA and AMC Substrates in Milligram to Multi-Gram Quantities
To enable quantitative studies of enzyme kinetics, enzyme substrates have been manufactured bearing chromogenic or fluorogenic moieties to allow for visualization using ultraviolet...
Meet Biovian at the BioEurope 2011 Partnering Conference
Meet Biovian at the BioEurope 2011 partnering conference, which will be held 31 October - 2 November...
Toxikon Europe's Scientific Director to Present at Pre-Filled Syringe Conference
Piet Christiaens, Ph.D., scientific director for Toxikon Europe (Leuven, Belgium), will present 'Extractable and Leachable Studies: How to Step Up the Right Testing Strategy', at the 4th...
Priorclave Completes Major Autoclave Order Ahead of Schedule
This week Priorclave shipped out a batch of twelve autoclaves from its manufacturing facility in south-east London. They represent the final phased shipment to complete a major order placed...
Mass Spec Molecular Fingerprint Analysis at AIBioTech
MALDI-TOF (matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight) mass spectrometry has found many notable uses in current life sciences investigations. Building on the pioneering work of...
Meet Biovian at the ICSE-BioPh International Contract Services Expo
Meet Biovian at the ICSE-BioPh International Contract Services Expo, which will take place 25-27 October 2011 in Frankfurt,...
September 2011
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Toxikon Outlines New Extractables / Leachables R&D Activities for the Next Five Years
Toxikon Europe, a preclinical contract research organisation specialised in extractables and leachables testing for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries, is ramping up its...
Tissue Solutions is Expanding
Tissue Solutions is delighted to announce the appointment of Simon Goulding as a consulting finance director to the business and to welcome two new members of staff to the business development...
Meet Biovian at the 19th BioPartnering Europe 2011 Conference
Meet Biovian at the 19th BioPartnering Europe 2011 conference, which will be held 10-11 October 2011 in London. Biovian's director of business development and projects, Dr Knut Ringbom, will...
Biognosys Invited to Present its iRT Concept for Mass Spectrometry Specialists
On 29 September Biognosys is invited to present its iRT concept at the 'Mass Spectrometry in Biological Sciences' seminar in Basel organised by Thermo Fisher Scientific. The concept of...
Boehringer Ingelheim Wins 2011 European Bio Pharmaceutical Contract Manufacturing Competitive Strategy Leadership Award
Boehringer Ingelheim is pleased to announce that it has received the Frost & Sullivan '2011 European Bio Pharmaceutical Contract Manufacturing Competitive Strategy Leadership Award'. ...
August 2011
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Sovicell to Attend 2nd World Conference on Physico-Chemical Methods in Drug Discovery and Development
Sovicell, a manufacturer and service provider of speciality assays for brain penetration of drugs and drug plasma binding, will be attending the 2nd IAPC World Conference on...
Sovicell to Attend Agilent Technologies' Automation User Group Meeting
Sovicell, a manufacturer and service provider of speciality assays for brain penetration of drugs and drug plasma binding, will be attending Agilent's Automation User Group Meeting in...
Tissue Solutions Introduces Exciting New Human Hepatoma Cell Line
Tissue Solutions is pleased to offer an exciting new human hepatoma cell line, HepaRG™, for toxicology and ADME research (absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion). Derived...
New Tunable Vectors for Protein Expression from Xbrane Bioscience
Xbrane Bioscience develops innovative tools for efficient production of proteins. Based on requests from customers and users, Xbrane Bioscience now offers Xbrane Rhamex System with...
AIBioTech Now Offers Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Analysis on the Roche 454 Platform
AIBioTech has provided automated DNA sequencing services on a commercial basis since 1992. We are pleased to announce that we have expanded and modernized our capabilities and now...
Boehringer Ingelheim and ProBioGen Sign Licensing Agreement for GlymaxX® Technology
Boehringer Ingelheim and ProBioGen have signed a non-exclusive licensing agreement regarding ProBioGen's GlymaxX® technology. Boehringer Ingelheim's Contract Manufacturing Business will...
Exploristics Receives R&D Grant to Develop Personalised Medicine Simulation Tool
Exploristics, the innovative data analysis and modelling company, is pleased to announce that is has received a grant from Invest NI to develop a simulation tool to optimise the design of...
Biognosys to Participate in the Tenth Annual World Congress of the Human Proteome Organisation in Geneva
Biognosys, a leading provider of targeted proteomics solutions, is attending the HUPO Tenth Annual World Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, which is being held 3-7 September 2011. Biognosys...
July 2011
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Tissue Solutions to Offer DRGs to Support Neuroscience Research
Tissue Solutions is pleased to be able to offer human dorsal root ganglia (DRG) recovered under operating room conditions. DRGs contain the cell bodies of afferent neurons and are the mechanism...
Onorach Clinical Partners with Quantics
Onorach™ Clinical has recently formed a strategic partnership with Quantics Consulting to provide statistical services to Onorach™ clients. Quantics Consulting were chosen thanks to...
June 2011
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Priorclave Meets Customer's Wish for a Bigger Compact Model
Despite the most comprehensive range of laboratory autoclaves there is always someone who wants something different and that is exactly what brought about the development of the newest...
Boehringer Ingelheim Expands Biopharmaceutical Fill and Finish Capabilities
Boehringer Ingelheim is expanding its capacities and capabilities in fill and finish for biopharmaceuticals at its state-of-the-art facility in Biberach, Germany, with a new filling line. The...
Tissue Solutions Announces Collaboration with CompanDX to Deliver New Bioinformatics Service
Tissue Solutions is pleased to announce a collaboration with CompanDX to deliver a bioinformatics service in support of personalised medicine and patient stratification. The partnership provides...
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies Expands its Mammalian Cell Culture Capacity
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies is expanding its existing contract manufacturing capabilities with the addition of a 1,000l Xcellerex® single-use bioreactor to its RTP, North...
Biogazelle Unveils the Next Generation of Real-Time PCR Data-Analysis Software
Biogazelle presents qbasePLUS 2, a major upgrade of the most powerful, flexible and user-friendly real-time PCR data-analysis software. qbasePLUS is based on the peer reviewed Ghent...
Meet Biovian at the Advanced Therapies Medicinal Products Workshop in Finland
Meet Biovian at the Advanced Therapies Medicinal Products Workshop 7-8 June, Helsinki, Finland. Biovian's project manager, Mr Antti Nieminen, will be available for in-depth disussions with...
May 2011
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Boehringer Ingelheim and Bayer HealthCare Extend Commercial Production Agreement for Betaferon®
Boehringer Ingelheim is pleased to announce the US-registration for manufacturing of Bayer HealthCare's Betaferon® against multiple sclerosis. Recently Bayer HealthCare has extended...
IPS Therapeutique Releases New White Paper
IPS Therapeutique, a contract research organization dedicated to the assessment of cardiovascular efficacy and safety in new chemical entities, has released a new, free-to-download white...
Xbrane Bioscience and DNA2.0 Initiate Marketing Collaboration
Xbrane Bioscience and DNA2.0 have announced that they will enter into a collaboration to market Xbrane Bioscience's innovative protein expression system, Xbrane Rhamex™ System,...
Xbrane Rhamex System Provides Maximum Yields of Any Protein in E. coli
Xbrane Bioscience, a specialist in the development of novel protein expression systems, has released a new, free-to-download white paper about the Xbrane Rhamex System, a bacterial...
Meet Biovian at the Biotech Outsourcing Strategies cmc2011
Meet Biovian at the Biotech Outsourcing Strategies cmc2011 (BOS cmc) on 16 June at Sohuset Conference Center, Denmark. Biovian's director of business development and projects, Dr Knut Ringbom,...
April 2011
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Onorach Clinical Launches New Website
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new-look website. The website is designed to be easy to navigate and to give you the key information that you need when selecting a CRO for...
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies Announced as New Name for MSD BioManufacturing Network
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies has been announced as the new name for the former Merck BioManufacturing Network (known as MSD BioManufacturing Network outside the US and Canada)...
March 2011
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Bayesian Study Design Offers a Pragmatic Solution for Phase II Clinical Development
Quanticate has released a free-to-download white paper entitled 'Bayesian Study Design: The Pragmatic Solution for Phase II Clinical Development'. Statistically powered studies in phase...
Flexible Phase I Study Designs: Expediting Early Clinical Drug Development
A new paper released by Quanticate provides an overview of some of the ways in which Phase I packages can be tailored to the needs of the specific compound and conducted more efficiently...
29 New Products Now Available from Bachem
Bachem is continuously expanding and updating its extensive range of products for your research purposes. We are pleased to present our latest product additions, which include...
Fujifilm to Acquire MSD BioManufacturing Network
Fujifilm Corporation and Merck, known as MSD outside the US and Canada, have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement by which Fujifilm will acquire the Merck...
February 2011
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Quanticate Announces the Rebranding of OPS Search & Selection to Quanticate People
Quanticate, a global biometrics clinical research organization (CRO), today announced the rebranding of its staff recruitment solutions division from 'OPS Search & Selection' to...
Quanticate Now Offering Free SAS® Training
Quanticate is offering free training in various SAS® procedures and techniques. If you are a SAS user wishing to extend your knowledge of SAS software and build efficiency into your coding,...
Bayesian Study Design Article: Using Interim Analyses to Improve Efficiency in Drug Development
Quanticate's second whitepaper shows how the Bayesian framework is highly appropriate for planning and executing interim analyses: The rationale for using a Bayesian approach to interim...
Gentris Corporation to Attend ASCPT 2011
Gentris Corporation, a leading global provider of applied clinical pharmacogenomic services, will attend the ASCPT 2011 Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas, which is being held 2-5 March. We...
Tissue Solutions Granted Ethical Approval to Collect Psoriasis Skin Biopsies
Psoriasis is one of the most prevalent of all autoimmune diseases and the second most common skin diseases, the first being acne. 125 million people worldwide (2% to 3% of the...
Pfenex and Boehringer Ingelheim Enter into Strategic Agreement for Pfenex Expression Technology™
Pfenex, an industry leader in protein expression through the Pfenex Expression Technology™ platform, and Boehringer Ingelheim International, a leading pharmaceutical company and global...
Nuron Biotech Selects Merck BioManufacturing Network as Manufacturing Supplier for NU100
Nuron Biotech has selected the Merck BioManufacturing Network in the UK to manufacture large-scale GMP clinical supplies of NU100 and undertake process validation leading to long-term...
Catenion to Attend Bio Europe Spring 2011
Catenion is proud to announce that it will attend Bio-Europe Spring 2011 in Milan, Italy. This partnering conference will be held on 14-16 March at the Milano Convention Centre (MIC). ...
January 2011
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Quanticate Networking Event: 'Early Decision Making in Clinical Development'
Quanticate would like to invite you to our February networking event to learn more on early decision making in clinical development. Our expert speaker panel will look at the concept of...
Enantia to Attend InformEx 2011
Enantia, a leading provider of fully integrated chemistry services for the fine chemical, pharmaceutical and biotech sectors, is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting at the upcoming...
Six New Products Available from Bachem
Bachem is continuously expanding and updating its extensive range of products for your research purposes. We are pleased to present our latest product additions, which include...
Avisoft Bioacoustics Introduces Two-Channel Ultrasound Playback System
Avisoft Bioacoustics has introduced an integrated and easy-to-use two-channel ultrasound playback system for conducting USV playback preference tests in rat or mice models of...
Meet Biovian at the BioProcess International Conference & Exhibition
Meet Biovian at the BioProcess International Conference & Exhibition on 6-7 April 2011 at the Nice Acropolis Palais des Congres in Nice, France. Biovian's director of business...
Strategic M&A Support for Pharmaceutical and Biotech Companies - Minimising the Risk of 'Winner's Curse'
In a risky business driven by innovation, M&A is a vital strategic lever to counterbalance the in-built volatility of the R&D pipeline. In fact, there are many more reasons for frequent M&A...
Biovian to Attend BioEurope 2011 Spring Partnering Conference
Meet Biovian at the BioEurope 2011 spring partnering conference, which will be held on 14-16 March 2011 in Milan, Italy. Biovian's director of business development and projects, Knut...
December 2010
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Kemwell Wins Best Contract Manufacturer Award
Kemwell, a leading provider of contract development and manufacturing services, has won the OPPI Best Vendor Award 2010 for Contract Manufacturing. The Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers...
SFS Wins Award for Most Promising Young Life Science Company at the Nexxus East of Scotland Awards
At just over two years old, Solid Form Solutions has grown quickly, continually building more business, hiring more staff, and adding more services. The unique array of high-quality services...
New Version of Qlucore Omics Explorer: More Power, Flexibility and Creativity for Sophisticated Data Analysis
Qlucore, a world leader in the development of bioinformatics software, has unveiled Qlucore Omics Explorer 2.2, the latest version of its advanced data analysis software, now featuring a...
Catenion Introduces Pre-Due Diligence and Due Diligence Support
Licensing and M&A activity has continued unabated in the bio-pharmaceutical space. The reasons are the impending patent cliff, which a number of the larger players have to face, as well as...
Pharmerit's Senior Research Consultant Wins Award for Best Podium Presentation at ISPOR
On the first weekend of November the annual European ISPOR event took place in Prague. At this year's congress, the ISPOR awards committee evaluated over 60 podium presentations and over...
Kemwell to Exhibit at BioPharma India Convention 2010
Kemwell, a leading pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing company, will be attending the BioPharma India Convention 2010 in Grand Hyatt Mumbai, Mumbai, India, taking place on...
Kemwell to Build Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Facility in India in Collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim
In a groundbreaking ceremony, Kemwell has completed construction of a new biopharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Bangalore, India, a strategic collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim, Germany. ...
November 2010
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Unique Monoclonal Antibody for Alzheimer's Disease
Agrisera has released a unique monoclonal antibody for Alzheimer's disease, the Amyloid beta oligomer-specific monoclonal antibody (OMAB), a highly selective amylodi beta oligomers,...
Kemwell Cooperates with GlaxoSmithKline to Establish R&D Centre in India
Kemwell, India's leading pharmaceutical contract manufacturer, has set up a new R&D facility in Bangalore, India, in partnership with the world's leading pharmaceutical company,...
Kemwell to Build New Liquids Facility in Bangalore
Kemwell has started constructing a new non-sterile liquid facility in Bangalore to meet the region's increasing demand. Kemwell is one of India's largest liquids manufacturers, having ...
Ten New Products Available from Bachem
Bachem is continuously expanding and updating its extensive range of products for your research purposes. We are pleased to present our latest product additions, which include human...
Onorach to Attend TB Drug Discovery Conference
Onorach™ Clinical is pleased to announce that it will be presenting at the TB Drug Discovery Conference in Glasgow, UK, on 22-23 November 2010. Jan Anderson, Onorach's clinical /...
Quanticate Selects Oracle Argus Safety for Pharmacovigilance Database
During an interview with eCliniqua magazine, Alison Bond, Quanticate's new head of pharmacovigilance, said: "The key to pharmacovigilance is the collection of high-quality, accurate data....
Boehringer Ingelheim Collaborates with VTU Technology to Provide Customers with a Broader Range of Contract Services
Boehringer Ingelheim, a global leader in biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacture, and VTU Technology, a leading supplier of exclusive technologies and comprehensive services for...
Solid Form Solutions to Exhibit at AAPS 2010
Solid Form Solutions, a world-leading contract research organisation (CRO) for the pharmaceutical industry, is pleased to announce its attendance at this year's AAPS in New Orleans on...
Diagnostic Tests Require DNA or RNA: New Technology Delivers Both Quickly
Fluoresentric has announced the release of its advanced Direct-2-PCRTM sample kits, for nasal, throat and cheek swab diagnostic health tests. This novel and breakthrough sample preparation...
Signal Diagnostics and Fluoresentric Issue Patent for New Breakthrough Technology
Biotechnology company Signal Diagnostics (SDx) and parent Fluoresentric announce the issuance of patent US Patent Application No. 12/058,627, system and method for high-resolution analysis...
Upcoming Challenges for the Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry
The Japanese pharmaceutical industry accounts for more than 1,000 firms, of which approximately 20 have annual sales of more than $500m. It is a widespread view in the West that the...
October 2010
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Mourne Training Services Releases HPLC e-Learning CD-ROM
MTS, a training consultancy specialising in learning and development relating to the chemical analysis of pharmaceuticals, is pleased to announce that the in-house e-learning training...
Comparator Supplies - A Trial you Could do Without?
Sourcing comparator drugs is easy with the right partner. Wellspring, through parent company Mawdsleys, has worked hard to build strong relationships with drug manufacturers and develop...
Clinical Trials Division Enhanced by Luto Acquisition
Wellspring's parent company, Mawdsleys, has recently acquired Luto Research to build upon its existing expertise in clinical trial services. Luto specialises in developing, enhancing and...
Wellspring Further Develops Partnerships with Pharmaceutical Companies
Mawdsleys' clinical trials division, Wellspring, has further developed contacts in the international market, as they recently attended Bangalore Bio, India's premier biotechnology event. ...
'How to Troubleshoot HPLC' - External Training Course from Mourne Training Services
MTS is delighted to announce a series of training dates for a new course: 'How to Troubleshoot HPLC'. These one-day external training courses are sponsored by Phenomenex. The available dates are...
September 2010
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Anaxsys Receives CE Mark for its Respiratory Rate Monitor with the Support of Exploristics
Exploristics, the innovative analysis group, is pleased to announce that Anaxsys has received the CE mark for its respiratory rate monitor, respiR8, from the British Standards Institute (BSI)....
ARTES Steps Further into the Vaccine Business by Acquiring Anavax
ARTES Biotechnology announces today the acquirement of the ANAVAX virus-like particle (VLP) technology from Select Vaccines. ANAVAX is a patent-protected VLP technology that can be applied to...
Solid Form Solutions to Exhibit at Booth 6E103 at CPHI
Come and meet our experts at this year's worldwide CPHI. Either pop along to our stand or contact juliescott@solidformsolutions.co.uk to schedule your meeting. Come along and sample...
Bachem and Atheris Collaborate on Melusine® Venom Peptide
Bachem has announced that the company has concluded an agreement with Atheris Laboratories to market their Melusine® libraries, consisting of natural products isolated from animal venoms....
Durbin Donates $200,000 of Pharmaceuticals to AmeriCares
Durbin has recently donated 4,500 packs of a long-dated medicine to AmeriCares - one of the largest NGOs in the US. The medicine, worth over $200,000, has been used by AmeriCares as part of...
Mourne Training Services Offers 20% 'Back-to-School' Discount
Mourne Training Services is offering a special 'back-to-school' discount on all iLearn bookings that are made in September and October this year. iLearn is an online HPLC e-learning...
Enantia to Exhibit at CPhI Worldwide 2010
Once more Enantia will be present at the CPhI worldwide event, which will be held in Paris from 5-7 October. Visitors are kindly invited to drop by our stand (6K99) where we will be pleased...
Mourne Training Services Releases HPLC Calculator as Free Download
The latest free resource from Mourne Training Services (MTS) is a HPLC calculator, which can be used for a number of useful HPLC calculations, including: Calculating how long is required...
Troubleshooting Advice on Pharmaceutical Analysis from Mourne Training Services
Mourne Training Services (MTS) has launched a troubleshooting service that provides free advice on problems encountered during the chemical analysis of pharmaceuticals. The MTS helpdesk is...
Bachem - Your Partner for Resins for SPPS
Solid-phase synthesis, especially the more convenient Fmoc variant, has become the routine method for assembling peptides. Standard resins such as Wang resin yield the 'free peptide',...
Qlucore Announces Dates of 2010 European Seminar Roadshow
Qlucore, a world leader in the development of bioinformatics software, has announced the dates of its 2010 European Seminar Roadshow. Founded in 2007, Qlucore currently provides powerful...
August 2010
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Exploristics Signs Agreement with OmicSoft Corporation
Exploristics is pleased to announce an agreement with OmicSoft Corporation. Under the terms of the agreement, Exploristics will act as the sole distributor in Europe of OmicSoft's...
Bachem Releases Half-Year Results for 2010
In the first half of 2010, sales of the Bachem Group fell to CHF73.9m as a result of the difficult market conditions. Trends in the most important business areas Generics in particular...
Exploristics Releases New 'Management and Analysis of Biomarker Data' White Paper
Exploristics provides effective solutions to the challenge of managing, storing, integrating and analysing large volumes of biomarker data. Exploristics' recently released white paper,...
Exploristics Signs Contract with Cytos Biotechnology
Exploristics is pleased to announce a collaboration with Cytos Biotechnology, the drug discovery, development and commercialisation company specialising in therapeutic vaccines. As part of...
Enantia Selected as Preferred Partner for Neogenius Project
Set up on the basis of a strategic alliance between four pharmaceutical companies (Almirall, Esteve, Palau Pharma and Proteomika), the Neogenius project will run for four years with a total...
Caco-2 Permeability Studies: Optimise Your Resources with CacoReady and CacoReady Express
ADVANCELL's ReadyCell™ product line helps you to optimise your resources, to avoid in-house cell culture maintenance and to obtain reproducible results. ADVANCELL...
Pharmaceutical Analysis e-Newsletter Released by Mourne Training Services
The July/August 2010 edition of 'Analyse This', the e-newsletter from Mourne Training Services, is now available. In this summer issue there is advice about making the most of attending...
ADVANCELL to Host Webinars from September
ADVANCELL Alternative Testing invites you to participate in the webinars that the unit will organise every week in September: 'New Ready-to-use tools to evaluate transport' and 'Metabolism...
Durbin's Checking Procedure Limits Risk of Counterfeit Goods
Recent news that the number of seizures of medicines suspected of infringing intellectual property increased in 2009 to almost 11.5 million articles across the EU. This highlights the need...
HPLC Training by e-Learning Now Available from Mourne Training Services
Mourne Training Services has launched a new HPLC training course which is available in a distance learning option: iLearn. This e-learning course is ideal for anyone who wishes to use HPLC. ...
July 2010
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Free HPLC Training Video Released by Mourne Training Services
Mourne Training Services has released a free HPLC training video entitled 'A Brief Guide to HPLC Instruments'. The video describes the different parts of a HPLC instrument. A picture of how...
Qlucore's Next-Generation Data Analysis Software Helps Researchers to Understand the Link Between Epigenetic Alterations and Disease
A team of scientists at the Institute of Human Genetics of the Christian-Albrechts-University and the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel, Germany, is currently using...
FDA Approves Beech Tree Labs' Recurrent Oral Herpes Infections IND Application - Another Successful Collaboration Milestone for NCRA and BTL
Beech Tree Labs has announced that the FDA has approved its IND for a Phase 1/2a clinical evaluation of BTL-TML-HSV, a novel therapeutic agent for treating recurrent oral herpes infections....
Gentris Corporation Appoints Karen Weck, MD, as Consulting Medical Director
Gentris Corporation, a global leader in applied clinical pharmacogenomics, announced today that they have appointed Karen Weck, MD, as a consulting medical director. Dr Weck replaces the...
Risk Profiles of Corporate Portfolio Strategies - A Perspective for the Pharmaceutical Executive
The current meltdown of some segments of the global banking system can be seen as a direct result of systemic weaknesses in the way that many financial services companies operated in a...
MTS Training Books Reviewed by Chemistry World
The training books from Mourne Training Services have received very positive reviews in the May edition of the Royal Society of Chemistry magazine, Chemistry World. Two books were reviewed,...
Gentris Corporation Names New Chief Executive Officer
Gentris Corporation, a global leader in applied clinical pharmacogenomics, announced today that Rick Williams has joined the organization as chief executive officer and a member of the board...
Ten New Products are Available from Bachem
Bachem is continuously expanding and updating its extensive range of products for your research purposes. We are pleased to present our latest product additions, which include atrial...
Solid Form Solutions Increases Headcount
Solid Form Solutions (SFS) today announced that four new staff members have joined the company to support a number of large contracts. The Roslin-based CRO specialises in providing...
June 2010
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Bachem - Your Partner for Bioactive Peptides
Thymosin β4 is a 43 amino acid peptide. It is the most abundant member of the β-thymosin family in mammalian tissue and is regarded as the main intracellular G-actin sequestering...
Bachem Divests Stake in Polyphor
Bachem has announced that the company, on 16 June 2010, sold its complete stake in Polyphor to Ingro Finanz, which hereby increased its stake in Polyphor to 29%. The involved parties...
Exploristics Supports the Design and Validation of Clinical Rating Scales and QoL Data
Exploristics, the innovative data analysis company, is pleased to announce the release of a new service that helps clinical researchers from across the healthcare sector to design and...
Qlucore Supports its Ongoing Expansion with Appointment of New Sales Director
Qlucore, a world leader in the development of bioinformatics software, has appointed Ann Holmberg as its new sales director. Ms Holmberg, who holds an MSc in Biochemistry from the University...
Kemwell Establishes New Pharmaceutical Production Centre
The family owned company group Kemwell in India acquired one of Pfizer's factories in Sweden during 2006 and by this transaction established itself as a contract manufacturer in the EU...
ImmunoPrecise's Rapid Prime System Ensures a 65-Day Completion of Hybridoma Development Programs
As a leading provider of custom monoclonal and polyclonal antibody development with over 20 years of experience, ImmunoPrecise Antibodies is well-positioned to offer some of the fastest...
Bachem to Supply ISA Pharmaceuticals with Finished Dosage Forms of Immunotherapeutic HPV-SLP for Phase III Clinical Trials
Bachem and ISA Pharmaceuticals have announced the conclusion of an agreement for the manufacture of the active ingredients and the supply of finished dosage forms of ISA...
May 2010
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University of Leicester Selects Sygnature Chemical Services to Support Wellcome Trust-Funded Pneumococcal Diseases Project
Sygnature Chemical Services, a leading UK-based provider of premium discovery chemistry services to the global pharmaceutical industry, has announced that it has been selected by the University...
Introducing the Ideal Pharmaceutical Teaching Tool: Risky Business, The Pharmaceutical Industry Board Game
Risky Business, the pharmaceutical industry board game, is becoming a must-have when it comes to teaching about the pharmaceutical industry. Risky Business is a strategy training workshop...
Advanced Data Analysis Software Helps to Drive Creativity and Efficiency in R&D for Pharmaceutical Companies
Qlucore, a world leader in the development of bioinformatics software, has revealed how the log function in Qlucore Omics Explorer 2.1 is helping to drive creativity and efficiency within...
Solid Form Solutions to Exhibit at Chemspec 2010
Are you attending Chemspec? Come meet with us at this year's Chemspec Europe, to be held on 9-10 June 2010 at Messe Berlin, Germany. We will be exhibiting at stand number U6. Contact us now...
Vital New Treatment for Liver Failure
A remarkable new device for the treatment of liver disease is now one step nearer to being available in the UK and Europe, thanks to a unique collaboration between Wellspring Clinical Services...
Recombinant Protein Production
The advent of genomics has revolutionised the industry of production of recombinant protein. The interest of the diagnosis, research, medicine, veterinary and industrial sectors is growing....
Protein Expression in E.Coli, Yeast, Baculovirus or Mammalian Cells
The most commonly used system for expression and purification of recombinant protein is E. coli. Indeed, it is the simplest and fastest system for custom expression of a protein and at low cost. ...
Proteogenix - Refolding
Recombinant protein expression in E. Coli has the disadvantage of expressing a significant number of proteins in inclusion bodies or pellets. It is often a defence system of the bacteria...
Proteogenix – Recombinant Protein Purification
The global growth in the need of recombinant protein expression and purification leads to the development of ever more ingenious strategies to improve yields, purity and quality of protein...
Xenometrix Holds Second International Distributor Meeting
Xenometrix recently organised its second international distributor meeting with participants from all over the world. At the end of the meeting, Xenometrix organised a spectacular train trip...
Results of Comparison of Ames MPF PENTA I with Ames Plate Incorporation
Xenometrix tested 17 mutagenic reference compounds with the 5 tester cultures of the PENTA I kit (TA98, TA100, TA15335, TA1537 and EC wp2 uvrA plus EC wp2 [pKM101]) and compared the...
Xenometrix Introduces New Ames MPF YG Microplate-Based Mutagenicity Test Kit
Xenometrix has expanded its range of Ames microplate-based mutagenicity test kits and introduced a basic kit for the use with the S.typhimurium tester strains YG1021, YG1024 and YG1041....
Xenometrix Starts Partnership with MetaSystems
Xenometrix has entered into partnership with MetaSystems, in order to use the latter's technology to enable full automation of Ames MPF / Ames II data reading, identification of positive wells...
April 2010
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Q Chip and ARTES Biotechnology Sign a Collaborative Agreement
Q Chip and ARTES Biotechnology have announced that they have signed a collaborative agreement to explore the co-development of a new sustained release formulation of interferon alpha 2a for...
Corealis Pharma to Attend BIO Exhibition
If you plan to attend BIO in Chicago (3-6 May 2010 at the McCormick Place), we do hope you have the opportunity to visit us on the exhibit show floor. We will be present at our partner's stand...
Corealis Pharma Expands its Operations into a New Facility in Laval, Canada
Corealis Pharma has announced the consolidation of its operations by acquiring a new 33,000ft² state-of-the-art pharmaceutical research facility in the heart of the Cité de la Biotech...
New Whitepaper from Pronexus Analytical: Neurochemical In Vivo Monitoring and Allied Bioanalytical Techniques
Pronexus Analytical is a preclinical contract research organisation that offers services in neurochemical in vivo monitoring and allied bioanalytical techniques. Pronexus Analytical's...
Bachem - Your Partner for the Biotinylation of Peptides
The complex formation between biotin and avidin or streptavidin is one of the strongest and most specific non-covalent interactions of a low-molecular weight compound with a protein. In...
NextGen Sciences to Develop and Validate Protein Biomarker Assays for Takeda Pharmaceuticals
NextGen Sciences, a leading provider of biomarker discovery, assay development, validation and testing services, and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company (Takeda), have entered into an agreement...
Solid Form Solutions Achieves ISO9001:2008 Certification
After inspection by the British Standards Institute, Solid Form Solutions (SFS) has now been certified to ISO9001:2008. The audit's success stemmed from hard work and overall team effort...
Solid Form Solutions Launches New Custom Synthesis Service
Solid Form Solutions is pleased to unveil its custom synthesis service to complement its solid form screening programmes. Using a 'quality by design' approach, the integration of the two...
Avaxia Biologics to Collaborate with Biomodels on Antibody Therapeutic for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Avaxia Biologics, a biotechnology company developing oral antibodies for diseases of the GI tract, has announced that it has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant...
March 2010
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FOCUS Clinical Drug Development Expands Phase II-IV Activities and Launches Volunteer Community Website
FOCUS Clinical Drug Development's new volunteer community website FOCUS4you has gone live today. This is the first German volunteer community platform established to facilitate the exchange...
Investigator Responsibilities Revisited by FDA
By Glenda Guest, vice president, Norwich Clinical Research Associates (NCRA) While the title of the new guidance from FDA is 'Investigator Responsibilities', in reality sponsors also...
New Guide from Qlucore Shows How Visualisation Techniques Can Produce Important Research Findings
Qlucore, a world leader in the development of bioinformatics software, has published an easy-to-use guide that shows how visualisation techniques can be used to obtain important new findings...
Fluoresentric Offers Outsource Genotyping or Quantifiication PCR Development
Can you see yourself readily collecting data for your project, instead of tediously developing the test? Do you need genotyping, qPCR, rtPCR, or even qrtPCR? We've done it all - successfully. ...
Bachem Releases New Receptor Antagonist, Building Blocks for Peptide Synthesis and Immunology Products
Bachem is continuously expanding and updating its extensive range of products for your research purposes. We are pleased to present our latest product additions, which include the PAC1...
Bachem Confirms High Profitability in the 2009 Business Year
In 2009, despite difficult market conditions, the Bachem Group achieved sales of CHF181.8 million. Compared with the previous year, this corresponds to a sales decline of only 5.6% in...
Qlucore Omics Explorer Helps Researchers to Find Alternatives to Animal Testing for Allergen Studies
Qlucore, a world leader in the development of bioinformatics software, has today confirmed that researchers at Lund University in Sweden are using Qlucore's advanced data analysis software...
February 2010
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Quanticate Appoints Dr Alison Bond to Lead Pharmacovigilance
Quanticate, a global biometrics clinical research organisation (CRO), today announced that it has appointed Dr Alison Bond to lead its new pharmacovigilance services team. The appointment...
Quanticate Wins Kinetic Process Innovation Award
Quanticate, a global biometrics clinical research organization (CRO), today announced that it has received the 2010 Kinetic Process Innovation Award for excellence in clinical data management...
Biovian Successfully Expands its Aseptic Filling Capacity
Biovian has answered to the growing need of full one-stop-shop services in cGMP contract manufacturing of injectables and sterile products with a new aseptic filling line, which has...
Biomodels' Oral Mucositis Expertise Speeds Up FDA Approval for ActoGeniX's Phase 1b Trial of AGO13 in Cancer Patients
Pre-clinical research organisation Biomodels has announced that it has successfully collaborated with ActoGeniX, a development stage biopharmaceutical company, in obtaining FDA approval for...
Xenometrix to Exhibit at the SOT 49th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo
There will be various opportunities to meet us at the upcoming SOT meeting in March. We would be happy to welcome you at the Aniara / Xenometrix booth to discuss our latest products with...
Ames MPF 98/100 Aqua: New Mutagenicity Test Kit for the Testing of Water Quality
Xenometrix is pleased to introduce a new liquid microplate kit version of the Ames MPF 98/100 assay. The Ames MPF 98/100 AQUA is designed to detect the mutagenic potential of non-concentrated...
Xenometrix Introduces New Bulk Chemicals for Cytotoxicity Assays
Xenometrix has recently introduced bulk chemicals within its cytotoxicity line for cost-efficient testing and high sample throughput. In addition to the ready-to-use cytotoxicity kits...
Agrisera Introduces New Antibodies for Animal Cell Biology
Agrisera, a specialist in polyclonal and monoclonal antibody production, has introduced a new set of antibodies that detect human SOD1: SOD1 aa 03-20, superoxide dismutase 1, soluble SOD1...
Agrisera Offers Western Blot Recommendations, Troubleshooting and Protocol Advice
Each antibody-antigen interaction has unique characteristics; a protocol that gives good results for one antibody-antigen pair might not be satisfactory for a second antibody, even on the...
The Limsophy RALIMS Data Management Concept Passes the Practical Test at Biotech Company Trenzyme
Whenever a new cell line, plasmid, biomarker, formulation, product, surface coating, etc. is developed, a vast amount of data is usually generated, which cannot easily be filed in a...
Bachem - Your Reliable Manufacturer of Custom Peptides
Bachem, the number one in the production of peptides at any scale, is and will remain your ideal partner for custom synthesis. Our proficient peptide synthesis techniques coupled with...
Pronexus Analytical's Dr Jan Kehr to Give Lecture at In Vivo Neurochemistry Symposium
Dr Jan Kehr, CEO of Pronexus Analytical and the senior scientist at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, has been invited to give a lecture entitled: "Monitoring brain neurotransmission...
Nycomed and Trenzyme Extend Their Cooperation Agreement
The companies Nycomed and Trenzyme, both situated in Konstanz (Germany), have extended their cooperation agreement for another four years. As a service provider for Nycomed, Trenzyme...
Trenzyme Receives ISO 9001 Certification
Trenzyme has set another milestone as a first-class service provider for the pharma and life science industry. By obtaining the DIN EN ISO 9001:2008 certification the German 'TÜV...
January 2010
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FDA Approves Beech Tree Labs' Influenza IND Application
Beech Tree Labs, Inc., has announced that the FDA has approved its IND for a 180 patient Phase 1/2a clinical evaluation of BTL-TML001, a novel therapeutic agent for treating acute influenza...
Technical Paper on the Identification of Opportunities for Pharmacogenetics is Now Available from Exploristics
There is increasing demand in the pharmaceutical industry, in medical practice and by regulatory authorities to use new data, such as genetics, to identify patients who are likely to respond...
Exploristics Can Discover Hidden Gems in Your Clinical Development Portfolio
Exploristics, the innovative data analysis company, is pleased to announce a new service that helps pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies identify and exploit new opportunities within...
BioScience Business Resources and Welund Launch Web-Based Service for Tracking Pandemic Flu
If you are tracking pandemic flu, perhaps for the production and marketing planning of your flu product, FluAlert is the right tool for you. FluAlert is a web-based service that...
Mourne Training Services launches UTrain Online HPLC Training Package for In-House Use
UTrain is an online e-learning training solution designed to fulfil your in-house training requirements in pharmaceutical analysis areas, such as HPLC training, in an effective, efficient...
Sygnature Chemical Services Strengthens Scientific Team
Nottingham, UK — Sygnature Chemical Services, a leading UK-based provider of premium discovery chemistry services to the global pharmaceutical industry, today announced the appointment of...
Meet Biovian at BioEurope 2010
Meet Biovian at the BioEurope 2010 spring partnering conference, which will be held 8-11 March 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. Biovian's director of projects and marketing, Dr Knut Ringbom, will...
New from Bachem: Liraglutide, Rat Alarin, ACTH Peptides and a High Sensitivity EIA Kit
Bachem is continuously expanding and updating its extensive range of products for your research purposes. We are pleased to present our latest product additions, which include Liraglutide, a...
December 2009
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Mourne Training Services Releases Practical Guide to Validating Analytical Methods for Pharmaceutical Analysis
Following on from the release of our guide to using HPLC for the analysis of pharmaceuticals, Mourne Training Services is pleased to announce a guide for the validation of analytical methods. It...
Linn Liljeström Zeuthen Appointed Managing Director for NORMA
Linn Liljeström Zeuthen MSc has been appointed managing director for NORMA. For the last two years Linn has worked as contract manager across all of NORMA's six units. She succeeds...
Bicycle Therapeutics and Pepscan Enter into Partnership to Apply Constrained Peptide Technology in the Development of Novel Biotherapeutics
Bicycle Therapeutics has obtained a global licence from Pepscan to utilise its proprietary constrained peptide chemistry technology. The parties propose to closely collaborate on the development...
Dutch Biotech Company Pepscan Appoints New CEO
Pepscan Holding, the Netherlands-based biotechnology company focusing on protein mimicking technology for the generation of immune therapeutics, has announced that it has appointed Wim EM Mol...
Coming Soon - GMP Compliance Training Webinar
FCA is a full-service GMP and quality systems consultancy that provides quality, regulatory and compliance strategies to pharma, biotech and medical device companies. In January FCA will...
Sygnature Chemical Services and Cyprotex Establish Strategic Alliance
Sygnature Chemical Services, a leading provider of medicinal and computational chemistry services to the global pharmaceutical industry, and Cyprotex Discovery, a world-renowned...
November 2009
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Mourne Training Services Releases a Practical Guide to Using HPLC for the Analysis of Pharmaceuticals
HPLC is one of the most important analytical techniques used in pharmaceutical analysis. It is applied routinely throughout drug development and manufacturing, therefore it is critical...
Almac Doubles Capacity at North Carolina Facility
The Almac group has completed a 67,000ft² expansion to their North Carolina facility in Durham, which now houses both the Clinical Services and Diagnostics divisions. Almac Clinical...
Bachem Releases New Building Blocks and Immunology Products
Bachem is continuously expanding and updating its extensive range of products for your research purposes. We are pleased to present our latest product additions, which include the novel...
Sygnature Chemical Services and RespiVert Provide Update on Successful Discovery Collaboration
Sygnature Chemical Services, a leading provider of medicinal and computational chemistry services to the global pharmaceutical industry, and RespiVert, a small molecule drug discovery...
ARTES and Rhein Minapharm Continue Their Successful Product Development Collaboration
ARTES Biotechnology, specialised in recombinant protein production and process development from yeast expression systems, and Rhein Minapharm Biogenetics, a subsidiary of Minapharm SAE,...
Biomodels Scientists Develop Novel Model for Cancer Treatment-Related Fatigue
Scientists at Biomodels have successfully developed the first model that accurately duplicates human cancer treatment-related fatigue (CTRF). The new model shows that, as in human cancer...
Qlucore Expands its Marketing Efforts with New High-Profile Appointment to Board
Qlucore, a world leader in the development of bioinformatics software, has appointed Pia Gideon, the former vice-president of marketing and communication at Ericsson, to its board...
ETS Releases Free Whitepaper: Effects of an Ultraviolet B Radiation Absorber on Photocarcinogenesis in Hairless Albino Mice
Henk Tennekes, manager of ETS Nederland, has been involved in a recent study that explored the effects of an ultraviolet B radiation absorber on photocarcinogenesis in hairless albino mice. ...
October 2009
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Meet Biovian at BioEurope 2009
Meet Biovian at the BioEurope 2009 partnering conference, which will be held 2-4 November 2009 in Vienna, Austria. Biovian's director of projects and marketing, Dr Knut Ringbom, will...
The Latest News from FOCUS Clinical Drug Development
We would like to inform our sponsors about our new capabilities and latest accomplishments: The recent FDA pre-approval inspection audit of our Phase II clinical study site and office...
New Coupling Agents from Bachem
The coupling reaction is the critical step in peptide synthesis. In particular, the solid-phase approach relies on rapid peptide bond formation and complete conversion with a minimum of...
Sygnature Chemical Services and Heptares Therapeutics Announce Contract Chemistry Collaboration
Sygnature Chemical Services, a leading provider of premium medicinal chemistry and computational chemistry services to the global pharmaceutical industry, and Heptares Therapeutics, a...
mondoBIOTECH and Bachem Agree Long-Term Cooperation on the Development of Peptides to Fight Rare Diseases
mondoBIOTECH and Bachem have announced the conclusion of a longterm cooperation. In the frame of the agreement with Interferon Medical Use in Collina d'Oro, Switzerland - a 100% affiliate...
Almac Expansion Expected to Create 500 Jobs Over the Next Five Years
Almac, one of Northern Ireland's leading businesses, has secured planning permission for major expansion plans that could potentially see the company create over 500 jobs during the next...
Lubris and Biomodels Report Potential New Therapy for Osteoarthritis
Medical researchers have reported findings demonstrating that injecting the protein lubricin into knee joints can dramatically reduce cartilage degeneration. The discovery by scientists...
NORMA Gains Gazelle Company Status
NORMA has been appointed a gazelle company 2009 by Greens Analysis Institute in collaboration with the daily newspaper Borsen and Soliditet in Denmark. A gazelle company is the name given to...
Qlucore's Magnus Fontes to Speak at Half-Day Workshop Looking at Innovation in the Life Sciences
Qlucore, a world leader in the development of bioinformatics software, has confirmed that Magnus Fontes is to co-host a workshop on the subject of innovation in the life sciences. The...
Pipeline Biotech Offers Fast and Reliable PK Screening Programmes
Rational drug discovery requires an early appraisal of all factors impacting on the likely drug-ability of a new chemical entity (NCE) in the subsequent preclinical, clinical and commercial...
King's College London Chooses Qlucore Omics Explorer to Analyse Important Genetic Data
Qlucore, a world leader in the development of bioinformatics software, has today announced that the Genomics Centre, a core research facility at King's College London, has chosen to use the...
September 2009
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New Products from Bachem – Bioactive Molecules, Synthetic RANTES Peptides, LHRH Impurities and a Range of New Immunology Products
Bachem is continuously expanding and updating its extensive range of products for your research purposes. We are pleased to present our latest product additions, which include a number of...
Qlucore's New Omics Explorer 2.0 Software will Deliver Flexible and Creative Data Analysis for the Life Science and Biotech Industry
Qlucore, a world leader in the development of bioinformatics software, has today unveiled the Qlucore Omics Explorer 2.0, a newly enhanced data analysis tool that has been developed for the...
Dr Reddy's Laboratories: Exhibitor at CPhI Worldwide Madrid 2009
From 13-15 October 2009, Dr Reddy's Laboratories will be exhibiting at CPhI Worldwide 2009 in Madrid. Interested in our expertise in pharmaceutical development and manufacturing to provide...
Dr Paul Clewlow Appointed Sygnature's Senior Vice-President for Business Development and Joins the Board of Directors
Nottingham, UK - Sygnature Chemical Services, a leading provider of medicinal chemistry, synthetic chemistry and chemical library services, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr....
Sygnature Chemical Services Announces New Appointments to the Board of Directors
Nottingham, UK - Sygnature Chemical Services is pleased to announce two new appointments to the board of directors: Dr Jonathan G Williams becomes director of operations following...
Beth Harper to Facilitate Two International Patient Recruitment Workshops
As the competition for enrolling patients in global clinical trials increases, so does the demand for enhancing the skill set to effectively plan and manage global recruitment programs....
Establishment of McClay Foundation Marks New Era for Northern Ireland
Speaking today Sir Allen McClay, chairman of the Almac Group, formally announced the establishment of the McClay Foundation, a charitable trust that is one of the first of its kind in...
ARTES Becomes a Research Partner of the ChemBioTec Project Supported by Deutsche Stiftung Umwelt
ARTES Biotechnology has announced its collaboration with five other collaboration partners in a joint 28-month research programme that is granted by the national Deutsche Stiftung Umwelt within...
Micom Laboratories Commissions a New 1,700ft³ (48m³) Climatic Chamber
Micom Laboratories is pleased to announce its recent commissioning of a 1,700ft³ (48m³) Thermotron climatic chamber. At Micom, a laboratory specialized in cold chain and packaging...
August 2009
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Bachem - Your Partner for Opioid Peptides
Several families of endogenous opioid peptides, the endorphins, enkephalins and dynorphins, have been identified in the mammalian central nervous system. The peptides of these families contain...
Exclusive Cooperation Between ARTES and the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences
ARTES has announced that it has signed an exclusive marketing agreement with the Institute of Cell Biology of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine. The agreement is that the NAS...
July 2009
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Sygnature Chemical Services Awarded £390,000 Grant for Business Investment by emda
Sygnature Chemical Services, a leading provider of medicinal chemistry and computational chemistry services to the global pharmaceutical industry, has been awarded a £390,000 Grant for...
Reknowned Oncologist Dr Martin Murphy Opens Almac Diagnostics' New Headquarters
The headquarters of Almac Diagnostics, a division of the Almac Group, was officially opened today by renowned oncologist Dr Martin Murphy. Almac Diagnostics is based within the...
Bachem Presents 31 New Products
Bachem is continuously expanding and updating its extensive range of products for your research purposes. We are pleased to present our latest product additions, which include several...
June 2009
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Bachem's New Apelin Products
The 36-peptide apelin-36, which was originally detected in bovine stomach extracts, turned out to be the specific endogenous ligand of the orphan G protein-coupled receptor APJ. APJ has been...
Latest Offers from Proteogenix
Promotional offers: 10% discount on peptides from €2,000 HT until 31 June Chicken polyclonal antibody development (pre-purification included): €399.50 until 30 September. 10%...
Safe, Secure Storage and Transportation for Medicinal Products: What Do the Guidelines Mean in Practice?
In a two–day education programme called GMP in Storage, Distribution and the Cold Chain, our principal pharmaceutical quality consultant, Afshin Hosseiny, completes a distinguished panel of...
May 2009
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Afshin Hosseiny to Speak at 4th Qualified Person Conference in Barcelona
Tabriz Consulting's principal pharmaceutical quality consultant, Afshin Hosseiny, will once again share his experience and insight into the world of the qualified person at the European...
Stephan Schindler to Become New CFO of Bachem Group
Bachem has announced that Stephan Schindler, currently the head of Finance & Control Switzerland at DSM Nutritional Products, Kaiseraugst, will succeed Michael Hüsler as CFO of the...
Almac Announces Collaboration with Pfizer and the PETACC3 Translational Research Working Party
Almac Diagnostics has announced a collaborative study between Almac, Pfizer and the PETACC3 Translational Research Working Party (PTRW). The study involves gene expression profiling...
Biovian at Bio International Convention 18-21 May 2009
Meet Biovian at Bio International Convention 18-21 May 2009 in Atlanta, US. Biovian's CEO, Mr. Sakari Heyno, will be available for one-to-one partnering offered at the conference. To request...
18 New Products are Available from Bachem
Bachem is continuously expanding and updating its extensive range of products for your research purposes. We are pleased to present our latest product additions, which include...
ARTES Enters into a Partnership with Henkel for a Three-Year Research Programme
ARTES Biotechnology has announced its collaboration with Henkel in a joint three-year research programme that is granted by the German national BMBF (German Ministery of Education and...
April 2009
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Almac Launches Biocatalyst Kits
Almac Sciences has launched a range of biocatalysts in comprehensive, easy-to–use kits for customer evaluation. The kits cover hydrolases, carbonyl reductases, nitrilases and transaminases –...
Annual General Meeting Elects New Member of the Board of Directors
Bachem has announced that at the annual general meeting of Bachem Holding on 22 April 2009 Dr Jürgen Brokatzky-Geiger was elected as a new member of the board of directors by a vast...
Bachem - Your Partner for Peptide Toxins
Peptide and protein toxins are widespread in the animal kingdom as well as in microorganisms and fungi.Their unique properties make them valuable tools in various areas of research. The...
Almac - ‘Business of the Year Award is Company Milestone’
The Almac Group, headquartered in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, with further sites across the UK and USA, is celebrating success after being named ‘Business of the Year’ by Northern Ireland’s...
Bachem and Debiopharm Sign Follow-Up Contract for Long-Term Supply of Triptorelin Pamoate
Bachem and Debiopharm has announced the conclusion of a follow-up agreement for the long-term supply of Triptorelin Pamoate. Bachem has been supplying Triptorelin Pamoate, the active...
Biovian to Attend BioProcess Conference, 22-23 April 2009
Meet Biovian at the BioProcess conference, which will be held 22-23 April 2009 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Biovian's CEO, Mr Sakari Heyno, and director of projects and marketing, Dr Knut...
March 2009
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Almac Tops Off New North American Headquarters on St Patrick’s Day
Staff and management from Almac gathered at the site of their new North American headquarters yesterday, along with representatives from construction firm Skanska, for a traditional ‘topping...
Validation of Clinical Trials Facilities – Getting it Right from the Start
Tabriz Consulting’s principal pharmaceutical quality consultant, Dr Afshin Hosseiny, has recently returned from a visit to a US-based manufacturer of microbicide delivery systems. As part...
Bachem Announces Financial Results for the Business Year 2008
In the business year 2008 the Bachem Group achieved sales of CHF195 million. Compared with the previous year, this corresponds to a 2% sales growth in local currencies or a 1.7% sales decline...
Almac Wins ‘Exporter of the Year’ in Economic Awards
The Almac Group, headquartered in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, with further sites across the UK and USA, is celebrating success after being named ‘Exporter of the Year’ by Northern...
Frost & Sullivan European Drug Discovery Product Innovation Award Bestowed on Xenometrix
The 2009 Frost & Sullivan European Drug Discovery Product Innovation Award has been presented to Xenometrix in recognition of its active role in the production of single and multiple ...
February 2009
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Biovian to Attend BioEurope 2009
Meet Biovian at the BioEurope 2009 partnering conference, which will be held 16-18 March 2009 in Milan, Italy. Biovian's director of projects and marketing, Dr Knut Ringbom, will be...
Special Offers
Below are the details of the latest special offers from Proteogenix. Custom peptide synthesis: We offer the best prices in Europe. We have a quality comittment and guarantee the amount,...
Almac Jobs Boost for Northern Ireland
The Almac Group, which is based in Craigavon, has created almost 100 full time jobs in Northern Ireland in the first two months of 2009. Twenty full time positions were filled in January with...
Almac Discovery and Argenta Discovery Announce Contract Drug Discovery Collaboration in Cancer
Almac Discovery, an independent member of the Almac Group focused on the discovery and development of novel and innovative approaches to the treatment of cancer and associated conditions,...
Intelligroup Secures Multi-Million Dollar COSMOS Implementation with Almac Clinical Services
Intelligroup, an information technology and outsourcing services provider principally focused on enterprise resource planning (ERP) and extended ERP solutions, today announced that it has...
Almac Pharma Services Retained by MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals to Produce Physician Samples of MOXATAG™
Almac Pharma Services, a product development and commercial manufacture partner to the international pharmaceutical industry, today announced that MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals, a...
January 2009
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Almac growth set to continue in 2009
The Almac Group, which has its headquarters in Craigavon, Northern Ireland with further sites in the USA, expanded its workforce by 250 last year and is looking forward to further expansion...
Meet Biovian at Biosquare partnering conference March 9-11 2009 in Lyon, France.
Biovian's Director of Projects and Marketing, Dr. Knut Ringbom, will be available for the 1-2-1 Partnering offered at the conference. To request a meeting please contact Dr. Ringbom...
Almac Selects NuGEN Ovation® Systems to Broaden Gene Expression
NuGEN Technologies, a leader in nucleic acid sample preparation, and Almac Diagnostics, provider of translational genomics-based solutions, announced today that Almac has added NuGEN...
December 2008
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Biovian at the Genesis Conference
Meet Biovian at the Genesis conference, which takes place on 9-10th December 2008 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre and BERR Conference Centre, Westminster, London, UK. Genesis is...
October 2008
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Meet Biovian at BioEurope
Meet Biovian at the BioEurope partnering conference on 17-19 November 2008 in Mannheim / Heidelberg, Germany. Biovian's director of projects and marketing, Dr. Knut Ringbom, will be...
September 2008
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Successful Inspection by MHRA of Almac Clinical Services’ Pennsylvanian Facility
Almac Clinical Services is pleased to announce the completion of a successful inspection of its Audubon, Pennsylvania operations by the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory...
Biovian Expands and Invests in New Capacity
Biovian is pleased to present its two newest investments in capacity: the new 200 L Wave Bioreactor for mammalian cell culture and the new 300 L Stirred Tank Bioreactor for microbial...
Bachem Enlarges Corporate Executive Committee
Bachem announced today that Dr. Lester Mills will become the fourth member of the company’s Corporate Executive Committee on 1 January 2009. Lester Mills will be responsible for global...
Almac Diagnostics Launches Ovarian Cancer Research Tool
Almac Diagnostics has today announced the release of a new Cancer DSA™ research tool for ovarian cancer. The tool has additional disease specific information, which is optimised for use...
August 2008
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Meet Biovian at ICSE 2008 (International Contract Services Expo) in Frankfurt 30 September - 2 October 2008.
Biovian's CEO Mr. Sakari Heyno and Director of Projects and Marketing, Dr. Knut Ringbom will be available for in-depth discussions with your delegates at booth 41BIO37, Hall 4.1 in the Biotech...
Biovian International Contract Services Exhibition
Meet Biovian at ICSE 2008 (International Contract Services Expo) in Frankfurt 30 September - 2 October 2008. Biovian's CEO, Mr. Sakari Heyno and director of projects and Marketing, Dr....
July 2008
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Almac Announce World's Largest Gene Expression Study to Develop Prognostic Test for Early Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
Almac Diagnostics today announced details of a global multi-centre collaborative lung cancer study with leading research organisations in the USA, Canada, Asia and Europe, which, according...
Governor Rendell and Sir Allen McClay Break Ground at Site of New Almac North American Headquarters
The Pennsylvania Governor, Edward G. Rendell, today joined Sir Allen McClay, chairman of Almac Group, and Sam Kriebel, a local farmer and landowner, who has lived in the area for many...
Almac Testers Receive ISTQB Software Testing Certification
Almac Clinical Technologies announced today that its testing department has completed the International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB). ISTQB is the most widely recognized...
June 2008
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Almac Diagnostics Join Personalized Medicine Coalition
Almac Diagnostics announced today that it has joined the Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC). The coalition is an independent non-profit group comprised of leading academic,...
Almac Group Launches Oncology Discovery Arm
Almac Group has announced the creation of a separate division to be known as Almac Discovery. The new company will be focused exclusively on the discovery and development of novel and...
May 2008
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Newly Validated Capability to be Used in Gastrointestinal Cancer Study
The Almac Group today announced a deal with Biogen Idec, a global biotechnology company based in Cambridge, USA, to use Almac Diagnostics' expertise in extracting genetic information from...
April 2008
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Meet Biovian at BIO 2008, June 17-20, 2008 in San Diego
Biovian's CEO, Mr Sakari Heyno, will be available for the face to face partnering offered at the conference. To request a meeting please contact Mr. Sakari Heyno at sakari.heyno@biovian.com or...
Record Year for Bachem at all Levels in 2007
Sales grow to CHF198.3 million – up 17.0% in local currencies and 15.5% in CHF respectively Operating profit up 29.9%, net income up 37% Operating margin rises sharply to 36.5%, net...
Action Pharma and Bachem Cooperate on AP214 - Now Ready to Enter Phase 2 Clinical Trials
Action Pharma A/S and Bachem (SWX: BANB) today announced their cooperation on AP214, Action Pharma’s lead compound, about to enter Phase 2 clinical trials in post-surgical organ failure....
February 2008
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Meet Biovian at BioEurope Spring 2008 Conference, Madrid 7-9th April 2008.
Biovian's Director of Projects and Marketing, Dr Knut Ringbom, will be available for the one-to-one partnering offered at the conference. To request a meeting please contact Dr Ringbom...
Bachem Production Facilities Licensed for the Manufacture of APIs for the Japanese Market
Bachem announced today that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has granted the company a manufacturing license in conformity with the new regulations. The license...
Largest Ever Clinical Trials Cargo Shipped from Northern Ireland
Cargo travels on specialist Boeing 747 plane chartered in Northern Ireland from Belfast International Airport Almac Clinical Services largest ever supply of clinical trials material has...
January 2008
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ARTES and Minapharm Sign Long-Term Strategic Development Agreement
ARTES Biotechnology, which specializes in recombinant protein production from yeast expression systems, and Rhein Minapharm Biogenetics, a subsidiary of Minapharm, jointly announced the start of...
December 2007
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Almac wins top award at Tech Idol Showcase
Award Diagnostics division scoops Best New Technology Almac Diagnostics' Cancer DSA™ platform has won the award for the Best New Technology at the Tech Idol Showcase event held at the...
Meet Biovian at Genesis Conference, London 13th December 2008
Biovian's Director of Projects and Marketing, Dr Knut Ringbom, will be available for the one-to-one partnering offered at the Genesis Conference taking place in London, UK this December....
October 2007
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First Minister Praises World-Class Standard of Research and Development at Almac Group HQ
First Minister Dr Ian Paisley recently visited the headquarters of Almac in Craigavon, County Armagh. This was Dr Paisley's first visit to the company, which employs 2,000 people across...
Exclusive Cooperation Between ARTES and IPK
ARTES Biotechnology GmbH expands technology platform Having achieved notable success with the Hansenula technology for years, the biotech company ARTES has now concluded an exclusive...
July 2007
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Artes Enjoys Growing International Reputation
"We are looking forward to working with an international team“, says Dr Melanie Dröttboom, head of business development of Artes Biotechnology GmbH. Biotech company Artes, based...
May 2007
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Ace Initiates a Large Phase III Study For Levamisole
ACE Pharmaceuticals today announced that the first patient has entered the Phase III trial also known as the Levamisole trial. This trial was accepted by the EMEA by November 2006. The goal...
January 2007
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New European Patent Granted
ARTES announces the grant of the European patent on increasing recombinant protein secretion in yeast by co-expression of Calnexin, a protein responsible in intracellular quality control...
August 2006
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Almac Clinical Services Expands It's Global Depot Network
Almac announced this week that its Clinical Services division has signed further distribution agreements which will enhance the company's global depot distribution network. The new...
June 2006
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Pharmaceutical Companies Combine Under Almac Brand
Almac has announced the re-branding of its five business divisions under one brand name. As the company consolidates its position as a world leader in the provision of integrated...
PROTEO Biotech AG and ARTES Biotechnology GmbH: Strategic Alliance for Marketing of Elafin in Asia, Africa and South America
Kiel - Erkrath, June 19, 2006. PROTEO Biotech AG, a wholly owned subsidiary of PROTEO Inc., USA, has signed a cooperation agreement with ARTES Biotechnology GmbH. The aim of the agreement is...
ARTES Biotechnology GmbH and ProteoNic BV Start Research Collaboration
Today ARTES Biotechnology GmbH, Germany, and ProteoNic BV, The Netherlands, announced the start of their research collaboration. Both companies will join forces to investigate the application...
April 2006
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ARTES to present at BIOFINE, Barcelona and ACHEMA, Frankfurt
ARTES will present the technology and service offer plus the latest achievements and developments at: BIOFINE, Barcelona, on May 4th 2006 - 'Protein production using the Hansenula...
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