BioSpace News Archive

Career Advice

10 Bad (Yet Surprisingly Common) Workplace Habits to Drop ASAP

Your workplace habits can interfere with your work life and cause professional imbalance. Therefore, you should avoid these habits to boost your productivity.

October 2, 2018
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Editorial Staff
Policy

Ministry of Health & Prevention focuses on intellectual property to combat Counterfeit Medicines and Illicit Drugs to protect citizen’s health

Ministry presents initiatives at 12th International Law Enforcement Intellectual Property Crime Conference

October 2, 2018
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6 min read
Business

RHINOMED SIGNS 12 YEAR LICENSING AGREEMENT WITH AMERICA’S LARGEST MEDICAL CANNABIS OPERATOR - COLUMBIA CARE LLC

Rhinomed signs 12-year exclusive licensing agreement with New York based Columbia Care LLC, the largest and most experienced manufacturer and provider of medical cannabis products and services in the United States.

October 2, 2018
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6 min read
Drug Development

Avrobio Plunges on Mixed Data from Fabry Disease Gene Therapy Trial

Shares of Cambridge, Mass.-based Avrobio plunged more than 50 percent on Monday after the company provided an updated look at its gene therapy for Fabry disease that showed promise for the treatment, but also raised some concern for investors.

October 2, 2018
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Alex Keown
Pharm Country

Technology Is Revolutionizing Clinical Trials: Here’s How

Technology has had a massive impact on basically every area of life. One very important part of medical research that technology has been having a noticeable impact on is clinical trials.

October 2, 2018
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Sasha Mortimer
Deals

PharmaBlock Acquires a GMP compliant Manufacturing Facility to Support Ongoing Customer Demand

Facility is acquired from Porton Pharma Solutions Ltd., and operated with GMP compliance.

October 2, 2018
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4 min read
Business

Ministry of Health & Prevention partners with Pfizer Gulf to provide free medication to cancer & rheumatoid arthritis patients

One-year scheme under ATAA & TADAMON initiatives for financially challenged patients

October 2, 2018
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2 min read
Business

3 Months After Launching a Phase Ib Trial, Janssen Terminates Collaboration Deal with Aduro Biotech

Janssen Biotech, a Johnson & Johnson company, informed Aduro Biotech that it was terminating its research and license deals related to Aduro’s Listeria treatment for cancers.

October 2, 2018
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2 min read
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Mark Terry
Business

Synlogic Names Aoife Brennan as President and CEO

Synlogic, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYBX), a biology-focused clinical-stage company focused on living medicines, has just today announced that effective immediately, Aoife Brennan, M.B., B.Ch., has been appointed as president and chief executive officer (CEO).

October 2, 2018
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3 min read
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Elizabeth Glasure
Drug Development

Promising Early-Stage Results for Novel Malaria Therapeutics

Two antimalarial strategies have been published from Imperial College London in the past month: new compounds that prevent the malaria parasite from infecting mosquitoes and gene-edited mosquitoes that cannot reproduce, leading to population destruction.

October 2, 2018
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4 min read
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Chelsea Weidman Burke