Acquisitions

Apr 13, 2017

Cancer, diabetes and eczema star in 2017 top-launch list Launch prognostications are getting more attention than ever as they come out with “Drugs to Watch” list, and the highlights of different drugs shows what might work this year. By 2021, some of the drugs in the list are expected to bring in $16 billion, shared...

Mar 16, 2017

GSK consolidates DT and TT vaccine production in Hungary plant, adding 100 jobs With GlaxoSmithKline’s vaccines sales expanding, it figures it needs expanded production as well and some of that will happen at a 10-year-old plant in Hungary as well as Germany. GlaxoSmithKline said on Monday that it would invest £40 m...

Feb 23, 2017

PMV Pharma Raises $74M, Aiming to Hit Cancer’s Hard Target- P53 PMV Pharmaceuticals is the latest startup to load up with cash in an attempt to home in on one of the toughest targets in cancer biology: the tumor suppressor protein known as p53. The company raised a $74 million Series B round from Topspin Biotech Fun...

Feb 02, 2017

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

Oct 20, 2016

Sun Pharma & ICGEB announce exclusive collaboration to develop novel dengue vaccine International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) and Sun Pharma Ltd. announced their new collaboration for development of a dengue vaccine, targeted against all the four serotypes of Dengue virus that cause ...

Oct 05, 2016

The value of announced mergers and acquisitions (M&A) worldwide fell 27% to $753 billion in the third quarter of 2016, as the companies have become apprehensive in terms of overpaying, which totally prevented the repeat of last year's deal-making frenzy. The Thomson Reuters M&A data is of the view that the f...