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Business

Immunomedics Announces Agreement With University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center to Expand Sacituzumab Govitecan (IMMU-132) Into Prostate Cancer

The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium, to investigate Immunomedics’ lead antibody-drug conjugate product candidate, sacituzumab govitecan, in an investigator-sponsored Phase 2 trial in patients with advanced castration-resistant prostate cancer.

January 11, 2018
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Rho Experts to Discuss eTMF Resourcing at the 2018 Trial Master File Summit

Rho will offer best practices for successful trial master file management at the seventh annual Trial Master File Summit, taking place on January 16-18 in Orlando, Florida.

January 11, 2018
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BioMidwest

Pharmazz Release: Issuance of Patent and Initiation of a Study to Evaluate PMZ-1620 in Dogs With Degenerative Myelopathy, a Disease Similar to Human Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

Pharmazz is pleased to announce that Indian Patent No. 290038 on a pharmaceutical composition comprising IRL-1620 was granted on November 28, 2017.

January 11, 2018
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Business

Elanco Announces Addition of New North America and Global Strategy Senior Executive

Today, Elanco named Sarena Lin as senior VP, North America Operations and Global Strategy, joining Elanco’s Leadership Team and reporting to Elanco president, Jeffrey Simmons.

January 11, 2018
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Deals

Shiseido Acquires Breakthrough Technology from Olivo Laboratories

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

January 11, 2018
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Job Trends

Medtronic’s New Study Shows Superiority of Intrathecal Baclofen Therapy (ITB Therapy) Over Oral Medication for the Treatment of Severe Post-Stroke Spasticity

The SynchroMed II Infusion System is the only system approved in the United States for ITB Therapy.

January 11, 2018
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Biotech Bay

Xenex LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robots Helping Stanford Health Care - ValleyCare Destroy Germs and Bacteria

The two Xenex robots, named Violet and Ray, use pulsed xenon ultraviolet (UV) light to quickly destroy bacteria, viruses, fungi and bacterial spores.

January 11, 2018
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Hemispherx Enhances Manufacturing Efficiency of Ampligen

The manufacture of Ampligen, a double-stranded RNA, requires an enzyme which historically has been difficult to prepare.

January 11, 2018
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BioForest

WaveForm Technologies Announces Clinical Trial Results For Its Continuous Glucose Monitoring System

WaveForm completed four human clinical trials for its proprietary continuous glucose monitoring (“CGM”) system.

January 11, 2018
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Policy

MiMedx Obtains Successful Settlement of its Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation, Medline Industries and Liventa Bioscience

In its suit, MiMedx asserted, among other things, that MTF, Liventa and Medline infringed MiMedx’s U.S. Patent No. 8,709,494.

January 11, 2018
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