BioSpace News Archive

Virginia, which is part of the BioSpace Hotbed region known as BioCapital, is home to an $8 billion biopharma market that employs more than 26,545 people.

It was discovered in Lake Pampulha, an artificial lake in Belo Horizonte, a city in Brazil, and infects amoeba.

Hector Armando Kellum, a former senior executive with the Novartis subsidiary Sandoz, pleaded guilty for his role in a price-fixing scheme for generic drugs developed by his company.

It doesn’t happen that often, but Merck’s checkpoint inhibitor Keytruda received a rejection from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The Phase II trial did not meet its primary endpoint.

Frank Reynolds, the founder and chief executive officer of PixarBio, was also ordered to repay $7.5 million to investors who backed the company’s non-opioid painkiller, NeuroRelease.

To date, there are more than 72,000 confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19 and 1,023 deaths from COVID-19, most in mainland China.

It is planned to go into operation in 2021, and is expected to create more than 200 new jobs in Lee County, North Carolina.

Genentech announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted the company’s supplemental Biologics License Application and granted Priority Review for Tecentriq® as a first-line monotherapy for people with advanced non-squamous and squamous non-small cell lung cancer without EGFR or ALK mutations with high PD-L1 expression, as determined by PD-L1 biomarker testing.

International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra has received an order for its radiology imaging solution from the British SWASH consortium of NHS Trusts.