20-Aug-2009 - US drug giant Pfizer has joined the growing list of organisations seeking to boost trial recruitment via the web, teaming up with IT firm Private Access to create a website designed to “increase clinical trial awareness and participation.”
03-Jun-2009 - IT solutions firm Merge Healthcare has won the race to buy eClinical specialist etrials, beating previous suitor Bio-Imaging Technologies whose takeover bid collapsed on Monday.
07-May-2009 - UK software group Cisiv has unveiled a web-based EDC platform, Baseline Plus, which is specifically tailored to meet the demands of post market trials.
07-May-2009 - CRO CMED and IT group Tessella are teaming up to offer adaptive trial data management and acquisition services to the drug industry.
08-Apr-2009 - Companies are maintaining their spending on quality control measures despite the challenging operating environment, according to Matthew Kopecky, product manager at Sparta Systems.
07-Apr-2009 - Werum Software & Systems has set up offices in Japan and Singapore, which will strengthen its position in Asia-Pacific and help it meet the region’s growing demand for tools to improve manufacturing quality.
02-Apr-2009 - Enterprise software company Oracle is to acquire Relsys, a specialist in drug safety and pharmacovigilance applications, for an undisclosed figure.
11-Mar-2009 - UK CRO Richmond Pharmacology has unveiled a new data management offering for the drug industry that it claims will help trial sponsors cut costs, save time and help guarantee data integrity.
24-Feb-2009 - Wonderware has launched software to improve the management of batch processes, offering users the ability to easily install additional processing lines or manufacturing cells.
02-Feb-2009 - As the sophistication of counterfeit drug packaging continues to improve it is becoming harder and harder to tell real products from fake. in-PharmaTechnologist spoke with Alpvision's Roland Meylan about the company's approach to brand authentication.
29-Jan-2009 - ABB has launched its latest process analytical technology (PAT) software xPAT, which it claims will help companies implement quality by design (QbD) through a products entire lifecycle.
23-Dec-2008 - The European Association of Pharmaceutical Full-line Wholesalers (GIRP) says it has concerns about the anti-counterfeiting proposals contained in the European Commission's recently-released 'pharmaceutical package.'
18-Dec-2008 - To accompany the map detailing job losses, which can be viewed here , we have picked out the details and trends from the data, uncovering the state of US pharmaceutical employment in 2008.
16-Dec-2008 - Australian drug development firm Cancer Therapeutics (CTx) has selected IDBS’ E-workbook and ActivityBase platforms to manage its global drug development programmes.
20-Oct-2008 - A UK company has been launched with the aim of providing high level management expertise to pharmaceutical companies on an “on-demand” basis.
02-Oct-2008 - Pfizer is shifting its research focus to those diseases where its sees the potential for the biggest treatment improvements and profits, while dropping eight disease areas including cholesterol.
19-Aug-2008 - Conformia says that the integration of its SOA data platform into IBM’s system will provide drugmakers with robust management architecture for the entire lifecycle of a product.
09-Jul-2008 - The credit crunch is putting the squeeze on start-ups and established companies alike, with numerous firms struggling to obtain the financing that is their lifeblood.
01-Jul-2008 - in-PharmaTechnologist.com presents its periodic round-up of personnel changes in the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector.
26-Jun-2008 - Sanofi-Aventis is to invest $6.25bn into vaccine production between now and 2015 as the company attempts to keep pace with rising demand.
25-Jun-2008 - IndiaSoft Technologies, which is headquartered in the city of Pune in Maharashtra state has won the contract to distribute Performance Fluid Dynamics' (PFD) DynoChem productivity software to drug manufacturers in the region.
23-Jun-2008 - in-PharmaTechnologist.com presents its periodic round-up of personnel changes in the pharmaceutical sector.
23-Jun-2008 - US technology specialist Honeywell International says that new features of its POMSnet manufacturing execution system (MES) can help pharmaceutical firms reduce production errors.
11-Jun-2008 - A company based in the US and Germany has set up what it describes as a 'Facebook for scientists', in a move that brings the phenomenon of social networking firmly into the workplace.
04-Jun-2008 - in-PharmaTechnologist.com presents its periodic round-up of personnel changes in pharmaceutical manufacturing and development.