BioSpace News Archive

Job Trends

6 Award-Winning Life Science Companies in the Bay Area

Here’s a look at six San Francisco Bay Area life science companies that have hit a variety of “best of” lists recently, in no particular order.

April 19, 2019
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Mark Terry
Policy

White House Continues to Tackle Opioid Abuse With $350 Million R&D Initiative

The new initiative against opioids has a goal of reducing related deaths by as much as 40 percent.

April 19, 2019
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Alex Keown
BioCapital

Patients Rank Pharma Companies in New Perspective Survey

The survey showed that not surprisingly, patients by and large have negative views of the pharma industry when it comes to corporate responsibility and pricing -- mostly pricing.

April 19, 2019
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Alex Keown
Business

Nocion Therapeutics Launches With $27 Million to Focus on Chronic Cough and Pain

The company focuses on developing drugs to treat chronic cough, although their technology may have broader implications for itch, pain and inflammation.

April 19, 2019
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Mark Terry
Drug Development

Pfizer and Lilly’s Non-Opioid Painkiller Shows Mixed Results in Phase III

Pfizer and Eli Lilly and Company announced top-line results from a Phase III clinical trial of two doses of tanezumab in moderate-to-severe osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee.

April 19, 2019
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Mark Terry
Policy

United Therapeutics Fires Back After Sandoz Files Anti-Competitive Lawsuit Over PAH Drug

Maryland-based United Therapeutics said Sandoz has had eight years to ensure it had its own delivery system in place for its generic pulmonary arterial hypertension medication.

April 19, 2019
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Alex Keown
Genetown

Of Mice and Men: New Light and Sound Combination Therapy May Treat Alzheimer’s

Recently published research by MIT neuroscientists indicates that amyloid plaques could be reduced via brain wave stimulation.

April 19, 2019
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4 min read
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Elizabeth Glasure