BioSpace News Archive

Deals

Charles River Laboratories Acquires KWS BioTest

The addition of KWS enhances Charles River’s discovery expertise, with complementary offerings that provide our clients with additional tools in the active therapeutic research areas of oncology and immunology.

January 11, 2018
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Pharm Country

PAVmed Initiates Reduction in Exercise Price of Series W Warrants

The Warrant Offer begins today and will extend to February 8, 2018, subject to extension at the Company’s sole discretion.

January 11, 2018
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Deals

LENSAR Acquires Laser Business Assets of Precision Eye Services

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

January 11, 2018
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Biotech Beach

Biosense Webster Release: First Patient Enrolled in U.S. IDE Study to Evaluate the Potential of New Device to Reduce Stroke Risk in Atrial Fibrillation Patients

The study will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the WaveCrest LAAO System in closure of the LAA and evaluate reduction of embolic stroke in AFib patients who cannot tolerate chronic OAC.

January 11, 2018
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Business

Thermo Fisher Scientific Designs Flexible Manufacturing Site for Flexion Therapeutics

Thermo Fisher Scientific announced today that manufacturing of Zilretta, is underway at its Swindon, U.K. site where a custom “condo” manufacturing suite has been installed to support the launch of Flexion’s newly approved therapy for osteoarthritis-related knee pain.

January 11, 2018
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3 min read
Drug Development

Cour Pharma Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for Timp-Glia

By encapsulating a component of wheat within a nanoparticle, Cour is developing a novel treatment which resulted in gluten tolerance in numerous animal models.

January 11, 2018
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LivaNova Initiates BELIEVE Aortic Heart Valve Study in the U.S. and Canada

This study is a post-market, prospective, interventional, multi-center trial designed to report the overall incidence of reduced leaflet motion identified by CT imaging in patients receiving a commercially approved LivaNova bioprosthetic aortic heart valve.

January 11, 2018
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BioMidwest

Open Therapeutics Integrates Overleaf Manuscript Development Platform Into Therapoid

Open Therapeutics announces the planned integration of Overleaf into its novel scientific collaboration platform, Therapoid.

January 11, 2018
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Business

Concept Life Sciences Appoints Helen McKeever as Group Programme Manager and David Halverson as U.S. Head of Sales

Helen joins Concept from RedX Pharma where she was Project Manager, leading a portfolio of small molecule projects from late discovery to early clinical development.

January 11, 2018
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Policy

BioTeknica Earns ISO 9001:2015 Certification

BioTeknica announced that it received ISO 9001:2015 certification, the highest standards of its kind, for its Quality Management System.

January 11, 2018
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