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Why Does Immunotherapy Cost So Much?

The use of multiple, potentially costly, drugs during combination therapy all contributes to the high costs in oncology. DO you know why does immunotherapy cost so much?

October 3, 2018
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Chelsea Weidman Burke
Owlstone Medical Completes $50 Million USD (c.£38 Million GBP) Financing Round

Investment will fund the global commercialization of Owlstone Medical’s Breath Biopsy® platform for early disease detection and precision medicine

October 3, 2018
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Policy

Rentschler Fill Solutions starts GMP operations with pharmaceutical Manufacturer’s Authorization granted from Austrian authority AGES

Certificate from AGES, the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, endorses GMP conformity to Rentschler Fill Solutions’ new top-of-class facility.

October 3, 2018
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Deals

Recipharm completes acquisition of Sanofi inhalation contract manufacturing business

Recipharm and Sanofi have completed the acquisition of Sanofi’s inhalation contract manufacturing business including a manufacturing facility located in Holmes Chapel, UK.

October 3, 2018
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Business

Boston Pharma Doubles Pipeline with 2 Deals with Novartis and GSK

Boston Pharma went on a buying binge, licensing a slew of compounds from GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis in two separate deals.

October 3, 2018
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Alex Keown
Business

Frances Arnold 5th Woman to Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Joining Madame Curie and Her Daughter

The 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith and Gregory P. Winter for research in utilizing evolutionary principles to create proteins.

October 3, 2018
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Mark Terry
Business

Karius Announces Winners of the 2018 Clinical Investigator Awards

Karius today announced the winners for its 2018 Clinical Investigator Awards for Applied Infectious Disease Genomics.

October 3, 2018
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Drug Development

Bionomics’ Phase 2 Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Trial Results

Trial did not meet primary endpoint of decrease in PTSD symptoms as measured by CAPS-5 at 12 weeks

October 3, 2018
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DONOR ORGANS ON DEMAND: RESEARCH LOOKS AT LIFELIKE ORGAN MODELS PRODUCED ON 3D PRINTERS

Biomedical engineers from Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences in Krems launch project focused on 3D printing of tissue models

October 3, 2018
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Ypso-Facto launches Ypso-Ionic®, a new software package enabling the simulation of ion exchange processes

This groundbreaking software is set to transform the market for ion exchange process design

October 3, 2018
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2 min read