The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Belgium-based ingredients manufacturer Puratos have entered into a loan contract for €45m that will be used for Puratos European research and development program until 2015. Puratos is involved ...
Tags: Ingredient Research Program, Food
A cooperative in Aklan involved in the piña-weaving industry has been identified by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) as its qualified cooperator/partner in the Shared Service Facilities (SSF) Project under its “Big ...
Pfizer has received breakthrough therapy designation from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its investigational compound Palbociclib, a potential treatment for patients with breast cancer. The breakthrough therapy ...
Tags: Cancer Drug, Pfizer, Therapy Designation
Mercodia, a developer of immunoassays, has entered into a collaboration agreement with Profil Institute for Clinical Research. Under the alliance, Mercodia will offer its enzyme-linked immnosorbent assays (ELISA) as a component for Profil ...
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KannaLife Sciences has partnered with Advanced Neural Dynamics and IteraMed for the discovery of new neuroprotectants. As part of the agreement, KannaLife will fund a new drug discovery project related to a laboratory validated ...
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The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has issued a positive opinion for Genzyme's oral Aubagio (teriflunomide) for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS). Aubagio did not ...
Merck, referred to as MSD outside the US and Canada, and Luminex have signed a deal to develop a companion diagnostic device to support patient selection for the clinical development program of investigational drug MK-8931 to treat ...
Tags: companion diagnostic device, drug, Merck
Optical components, modules and subsystems developer Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA says it has achieved a milestone towards the development of a 100G coherent CFP2 pluggable module based on a new generation of indium phosphide (InP) ...
The silk industry of Cambodia is in rapid decline due to limited domestic supply of silk yarn and high cost of imported raw materials. According to the latest data released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)-Cambodia, the ...
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The Vaccine World Summit India 2013 conference has honored Novavax, Cadila Pharmaceuticals Biologicals (CPLB) and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) collaboration for having the 'most promising ...
Tags: malaria vaccine, Pharmaceuticals, Vaccine
On Feb., 25th, National Key Scientific Instrument Development Program Application and Engineering Development of High Precision Optical Comb Coherent Imaging Analyzer, sponsored by government, approved by MOST was launched in Baosteel. ...
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company has submitted marketing authorisation application (MAA) seeking approval from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for its investigational, gut-selective humanized monoclonal antibody for the treatment of adults ...
Tags: Takeda, IBD Disease Drug, MAA, EMA
Gov. Bobby Jindal, South Louisiana Methanol CEO Barry Williamson and Todd Corp. Group CEO Jon Young announced that South Louisiana Methanol LP will invest $1.3 billion in a new methanol production facility on the banks of the Mississippi ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Complete Response Letter (CRL) to Nuvo Research's US licensing partner, Mallinckrodt, following the review of Mallinckrodt's New Drug Application (NDA) for diclofenac sodium topical ...
Decentralized renewable energy systems are increasingly the focus of the energy policy in Lebanon. The country wants to increase the share of renewables to 12% by 2020. Two initiatives are in particular targeted to advance the adoption of ...
Tags: Lebanon, Renewable Energy, Energy