The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted three new patents to A.P. Pharma's new APF530 drug delivery candidate. The company said APF530 drug candidate is being developed for the prevention of both acute- and delayed-onset ...
Tags: US Patent, A.P.Pharma, APF530 drug delivery candidate, New Drug Delivery
Ghana's presidential candidates have been outlining plans for the oil and gas sector, as the nation gears up for a decisive presidential election on December 7. The People's National Convention candidate, Hassan Ayraiga, said he would ...
Tags: oil, gas, presidential election
VentiRx Pharmaceuticals has formed a world-wide collaboration with Celgene Corporation to develop VTX-2337, a highly potent and selective TLR8 agonist for cancer treatment. As part of the agreement, Celgene will fund $35m as upfront ...
Merck has signed a licensing agreement with AiCuris for the worldwide development and commercialisation rights of candidates in AiCuris' Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) portfolio. The HCMV portfolio includes letermovir (AIC246), an oral, ...
Capstone Therapeutics and LipimetiX have formed LipimetiX Development , a joint venture (JV), to develop drugs that are used to treat indications of lowering blood cholesterol levels. The JV will develop a family of Apo E mimetic peptides ...
Tags: Apolipoprotein E, lipoprotein metabolism, Capstone Therapeutics
Biogen Idec (BIIB) and Isis Pharmaceuticals have entered into an exclusive, worldwide option and collaboration agreement, pursuant to which the companies will develop and commercialize a novel antisense drug for the treatment of myotonic ...
Tags: Steinert Disease, antisense drug
A 5 year $5.4m grant has been awarded to Profectus BioSciences and the Galveston National Laboratory (GNL) at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston to support the development of a Vesicular Stomatitis virus-vectored vaccine ...
Tags: Trivalent Vaccine, rVSV-vectored filovirus, Ebola and Marburg Viruses
Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company OXiGENE's acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) drug candidate, OXi4503, has received FDA orphan drug status. The second-generation anticancer agent with a dual-mechanism vascular disrupting feature ...
Taipei, Nov. 21, 2012 (CENS)--The cross-Taiwan Strait financial exchanges will reach a new level, as Shan Fulin, chairman of China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), is set to visit Taiwan by the end of this year. Guo Shuqing, chairman ...
Basilea Pharmaceutica has commenced next pharmacokinetic Phase 1 study with antibiotic BAL30072 in healthy volunteers. The injectable sulfactam antibiotic has the potential to target clinically relevant gram-negative bacteria resistant to ...
Galapagos has identified new class of antibiotics targeting drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains and commenced clinical development of first antibiotic. The selected candidate, CAM-1, was effective against all tested MRSA ...
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European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products has announced positive opinion for granting orphan disease designation to Aspireo Pharmaceuticals' Somatoprim for the treatment of acromegaly. Somatoprim, the ...
Taipei, Nov. 21, 2012 (CENS)--AU Optronics Corp. (AUO), a major maker of thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panel in Taiwan, recently won the Thomson Reuters Taiwan Innovation Awards 2012. The Award is organized by the ...
Tags: AU Optronics Corp, TFT LCD, Thomson Reuters Taiwan Innovation Awards
Energy company Centrica has carried out its first corporate agile IT project,building an employee self-service HR portal in an SAP environment for 30,000 users. Mark Tristram,agile development manager,Centrica said the SAP competency ...
Tags: Centrica, SAP selfService HR, agile testing, Mark Tristram, SAP competency
Computerworld - Statistical modeling techniques that retailers and manufacturers use to find and target customers helped some prognosticators predict the outcome of this month's U.S. elections with stunning accuracy. Because of his ...
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