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French company Innate Pharma and UK-based AstraZeneca have had a research collaboration deal in place since 2015. The two companies announced a new multi-term deal to build on that collaboration.
Two years after forging a partnership to collaborate on microbiome targets for gastrointestinal disorders, France-based Enterome SA and Takeda Pharmaceuticals have entered into a second agreement. This time with a specific focus on Crohn’s disease.
MagForce AG is pleased to announce that it will host a scientific lunch symposium titled “Local Therapies for Malignant Gliomas” on Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at the 18th European Congress of Neurosurgery in Brussels, Belgium.
Hutchison China MediTech Limited has initiated a Phase I study of HMPL-523, its novel spleen tyrosine kinase (“Syk”) inhibitor, in combination with azacitidine, an approved nucleoside metabolic inhibitor, in elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia (“AML”) in China.
Mesothelioma is a rare cancer that develops in the lining of the lungs, abdomen, or cardiovascular cavity. A 2017 study reported that the number of people affected by this rare cancer is between 2,400 - 2,800 individuals per year in the United States alone.
AstraZeneca and Merck & Co. presented results at the Presidential Symposium at the European Society for Medical Oncology 2018 Congress held in Munich Germany describing its Phase III SOLO-1 trial of Lynparza (olaparib) in ovarian cancer.
The FDA approved Sanofi and Regeneron’s Dupixent (dupilumab) as an add-on maintenance therapy for patients with moderate-to-severe asthma. The approved group is age 12 years and older with either an eosinophilic phenotype or with an oral corticosteroid-dependent asthma.
The European Society of Medical Oncology was in full swing this weekend as multiple companies showed off mid- and late-stage assets that could change the way some patients are treated for their cancer. This morning, BioSpace takes a look at some of the announcements.
Arjo today signed an agreement to divest Acare – the group’s low-spec medical beds business – to China-based CBL Group. The divestment is a key part of the group’s action plan to improve profitability in the medical beds product category.
Sterna biologicals GmbH & Co. KG today announced that the Company will participate in the upcoming BIO-Europe® 2018 – 24th Annual International Partnering Conference taking place from November 5 to 7, 2018 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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