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Roche announced that it was discontinuing two of its Alzheimer’s Phase III trials, CREAD I and 2, after a pre-planned interim analysis.
As the United Kingdom nears closer and closer to exiting the European Union without a deal, drug manufacturers like Novartis are preparing contingencies for how they will continue to provide medications, many of them life-saving, for patients in the U.K.
Not only will a company use a significant amount of capital to make the acquisition, but there are longer-term issues, such as the merging of two company cultures, Franz said in an interview with CNBC.
The U.S. government has been pushing to increase access to experimental drugs over the last two years. On August 18, 2018, the RACE for Children Act was signed into law as part of the 2017 FDA Reauthorization Act, which amended the Pediatric Research Equity Act (PREA).
In 2018, the FDA approved 59 novel drugs, meaning approved new molecular entities. BioSpace analyzed new drug approvals from 2014 to 2018 to determine which companies were responsible for the most drug approvals in that period. Here’s a look.
Traditionally, Genentech has tended to operate with less hands-on scrutiny from the business bean counters at its Swiss Roche headquarters. These more recent job cuts suggest those days may be over.
PwC recently came out with the latest version of their annual R&D spending report, and while there is a lot of interesting information to digest in this report, there are a few companies in particular that stand out within the field of biotechnology.
In writing literally hundreds of stories this year, two BioSpace writers, Alex Keown and Mark Terry, found certain stories particularly intriguing or impactful. Some of those were such big topics that they were covered over a series of stories. Looking back at 2018, here are their Top 10.
As we look back over the year, we noticed some stories just grabbed readers more than others. Here’s a look at the top 10 stories of the year, including job cuts, best-selling drugs, up-and-coming companies,scandals, clinical trials, and more.
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