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Biotechs - facing up to reality

02-Apr-2003 - The bulk of biotech companies are firmly rooted towards the foot of the ladder of corporate evolution. Precious few can realistically claim to be at...

GlaxoSmithKline signs €41 million deal with Flamel

31-Mar-2003 - GlaxoSmithKline has entered into a new drug formulation agreement with Flamel Technologies of France that could see the latter firm receive up to $45 million...

Dow obtains new oligonucleotides contact

31-Mar-2003 - Dow Chemical has agreed for Dowpharma, Dow's pharmaceutical manufacturing services business unit, to supply select, proprietary oligonucleotides to Montreal, Canada-based Topigen Pharmaceuticals for use in...

Biogen digs into Europe

28-Mar-2003 - Biotechnology company Biogen this week celebrated its 25th anniversary by breaking the ground on a large-scale manufacturing facility in Hillerød, Denmark, marking the company's first...

Intercare revenues rise strongly in 2002

26-Mar-2003 - UK contract pharmaceutical manufacturer and distributor Intercare Group has reported 2002 turnover of £275.1 million (€406m), an increase of 27 per cent year-on-year, and pretax...

Pharma boom for Denmark

26-Mar-2003 - Data published by the Danish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry (LIF) reveals a boom in pharmaceutical exports in 2002. Sales totalled DK30.3 billion (€4.3 billion),...

Bioscience - economic driver for UK ?

26-Mar-2003 - UK Science Minister Lord Sainsbury this week announced a new initiative to develop 'a strategic approach' to the future of the bioscience industry in the...

Forging genomics

24-Mar-2003 - Biotechnology service group SeqWright has entered into an agreement with Fisher Scientific that combines SeqWright's genomic services with Fisher's scientific research products. Under the terms...

Elan and Ingenium embark on pain alliance

24-Mar-2003 - Ireland's Elan Corp has inked a deal with Ingenium Pharmaceuticals of Germany that will see the companies apply Ingenium's functional genomics technologies to the discovery...

British Biotech to merge with RiboTargets

24-Mar-2003 - British Biotech, once the darling of the UK biotechnology industry but now suffering the after-effects of a string of major drug development failures, is having...

Swallowing loss

21-Mar-2003 - Losses continue for buccal drug delivery company Generex Biotechnology with the company yesterday reporting a net loss of $4.6 million (€4.3m), or $(27) per share...

Akzo carves further into Asia

21-Mar-2003 - Akzo Nobel has opened a new powder coatings factory in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in partnership with Chang Cheng Securities, marking the 12th powder...

Xenogen in Japan

21-Mar-2003 - SC Biosciences is to be the exclusive distributor of sensitive tools for drug discovery with the announcement this week that it will distribute in vivo...

Softly, softly...

19-Mar-2003 - German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim has signed a long-term agreement with software company MDL Information Systems to use its software technology for managing and deploying...

Flaming results

19-Mar-2003 - French drug delivery company Flamel Technologies reported a significant leap in revenues for 2002 jumping from €12.3 million in 2001 to €19.8 million in 2002....

Fund setback for world leader

19-Mar-2003 - Applied Biosystems group, the world's number one maker of gene-analysing equipment, warned on Tuesday that it would report lower-than-expected fiscal third-quarter revenue and earnings due...

Asia-Pacfic focus

17-Mar-2003 - Singapore is the location for the first 'Drug Discovery Technology' event organised by IBC Life Sciences in the Asia-Pacific region. Entitled 'Biomedical Research Applications in...

Life science boost

17-Mar-2003 - US biotechnology company Enzo Biochem that specialises in gene identification technologies, announced continued growth in operating results for the fiscal second quarter and six months...

Genomics tech grows with drug target validation

13-Mar-2003 - Drug target validation has become the critical step in maintaining profitability for the pharmaceutical industry, claims a new report from market research company Business Communications....

Merck OK's CyDex drug delivery

06-Mar-2003 - CyDex, a US company working in drug delivery technologies, has signed announced an agreement with Merck regarding its advanced formulation system Captisol. According to CyDex,...

Outsourcing to help SME's ride the economic storm?

03-Mar-2003 - "The current confluence of negative factors facing the chemical manufacturing industry could be called 'the perfect storm'," said Andrew N. Liveris, president of Dow Chemical...

Lonza steps up oligonucleotides production

26-Feb-2003 - Swiss life-science company Lonza announced on Tuesday that it is to strengthen the production of oligonucleotides - an emerging new class of therapeutics consisting of...

Pharma industry to target women

26-Feb-2003 - Women are becoming the most attractive target audience for healthcare companies, claims a new report from market analysts Datamonitor. A combination of increasing Internet access,...

Biopharm boosts sales for Nabi

20-Feb-2003 - Nabi Biopharmaceuticals saw biopharmaceutical product sales - driven by strong growth in sales of Nabi-HB - reaching record levels of $89.5 million (€83m) in 2002,...

Report predicts rapid growth opportunities for reagents and controls

12-Feb-2003 - US demand for combinatorial chemistry products and services is set to increase by more than twelve per cent annually to reach $4 billion (€3.7bn) in...