Events

Following a change to U.S. corporate tax laws, Pfizer announced at the beginning of this year that it intends to invest $5 billion in U.S. manufacturing over the next five years. On Tuesday, Pfizer showed its commitment to that promise with a $465 million investment in a new Michigan manufacturing site that is expected to create more than 450 jobs.
Arc Bio launched its proprietary antimicrobial resistance (AMR) software. It is the first in what it expects to be a series of next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based products for pathogen detection.
Merck presented results from Week 96 of its Phase III DRIVE-FORWARD clinical trial of doravirine in HIV. The data was presented in an abstract at the 22nd International AIDS Conference being held in Amsterdam.
Nearly four months after acquiring 100 percent control of its consumer health unit, GlaxoSmithKline Chairman Philip Hampton may be pushing for the business to become a standalone entity apart from its pharma and vaccines division, according to The Financial Times.
Atul Gawande is heading out to hold one-on-one meetings with employees of a new healthcare venture to get a handle on their healthcare needs, challenges and concerns.
The Chinese biopharma market is booming as more and more companies eye breaking into that rich market. Christophe Weber, chief executive officer of pharma giant Takeda, views its China programs as its second-biggest business behind the United States.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers who seek to buy medications through websites that they may be opening themselves up to of a swarm of imposters claiming to be representatives of the regulatory agency.
FDA
July can be a notoriously slow period for FDA activity, and this year is no different. There are only five PDUFA dates scheduled for the month, and the first one was a supplemental approval for Merck’s Keytruda. The PDUFA date was July 3, but it was approved June 13. At this point in the month there are only four more approvals on the docket, here are the remaining approvals scheduled for July.
Shares of Advaxis are skyrocketing this morning after the company announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration lifted the clinical hold on its Investigational New Drug Application for a Phase I/II cancer study.
Novartis and Michael Cohen, attorney to President Donald Trump, had a much deeper relationship than has been previously disclosed and was selling access to the White House, a new report issued by Senate Democrats alleges.
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