Roche

Aug 03, 2017

Allergan can finally sell its losing stake in Teva. Will it? Allergan, which acquired a 9.9% stake in the Israeli drugmaker last year as part of the pair’s $40 billion-plus generics deal, currently stands as Teva’s largest shareholder. Those shares, worth $5.3 billion when Allergan acquired them, have been locked do...

Jun 06, 2017

Dendreon touts T-cell response data for prostate cancer vaccine Provenge Dendreon has had no shortage of challenges with Provenge since winning FDA approval for the groundbreaking prostate cancer vaccine back in 2010. Years later, the company has unveiled new data showing the med generates a killer T-cell response—a...

May 30, 2017

Roche, Boehringer tout new idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis analyses to boost their rival medications The idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) market-share battle between Roche’s Esbriet and Boehringer Ingelheim’s Ofev hasn’t let up since the FDA green-lighted the medications in October 2014. And this week, both drugmak...

Mar 30, 2017

Mylan closing Illinois plant, cutting 90 jobs as part of slim-down after Meda buyout Mylan has been in the midst of cutting about 3,500 jobs to decrease costs and refocus after its $7 billion buyout last year of Meda Pharmaceuticals. About 90 of those cuts will come with the closure of a plant in Illinois.The drugma...

Mar 23, 2017

AstraZeneca slapped with second Complete Response Letter Having a potential blockbuster sidelined because of manufacturing issues is bad enough, but AstraZeneca has now had that experience twice—both times receiving a complete response letter from the FDA. For a second time, AstraZeneca has received a complete respo...

Feb 24, 2017

Colony Stimulating Factor 1 Receptor (CSF1R) is a cell-surface protein encoded, in humans, by the CSF1R gene. CSF1R is also known as macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor (M-CSFR), and CD115 (Cluster of Differentiation 115), and is encoded by CSF1R gene which controls the production, differentiation, and fun...

Feb 10, 2017

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a major global public health problem which progresses slowly and get worse over time. It is the 8th leading cause of death in United States, and is characterized by kidney damage and reduced kidney function. According to National Kidney Foundation, approximately 26 millions of adults ...

Dec 06, 2016

Glaxo replaces ViiV Healthcare chief as executive shuffle continues The executive exodus at GlaxoSmithKline is continuing—and so is the rise of women to the company’s top ranks. The British pharma giant announced that Dominique Limet, head of HIV unit ViiV Healthcare, would step down at the end of March 2017—the sam...

Sep 15, 2016

Roche's drug candidate for Multiple Sclerosis touted to be better than Merck’s Rebif The much anticipated multiple sclerosis drug from Roche, ocrelizumab, has overtaken Merck’s Rebif according to the results of Phase III data, and has also shown great stats that could prove that it might have an edge in the hotly co...

Aug 29, 2016

Immune checkpoints are defined as the stimulatory or co-stimulatory molecules involved in the immune system. There are two kinds of checkpoint proteins found on T cells such as PD-1/PD-L1 and cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLA-4). The PD1/PD-L1 pathway is an adaptive immune resistance mechanism exerted by tumor cells in ...