WuXi PharmaTech Co., Ltd. To Produce New Cancer Drug For Pharmacyclics, Inc.

by Richard Daverman, PhD

November 15, 2013 -- WuXi PharmaTech announced that its CMO subsidiary, Shanghai SynTheAll Pharma, will produce commercial supplies of Imbruvica, a newly approved treatment for mantle cell lymphoma developed by Pharmacyclics. WuXi has been manufacturing the drug during its clinical trials. Imbruvica was approved by the US FDA as a second-line treatment earlier this week under a Breakthrough program that OK’d the drug after it completed a Phase II clinical trial. More details....

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