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People on the move: pharma jobs

16-Aug-2010 - in-PharmaTechnologist presents its latest round up of movements in the pharma sector, including Ranbaxy’s CEO stepping down and appointments at Avid, the USP and Novavax.

Costs offset revs at Furiex, but Eshelman upbeat about prospects

12-Aug-2010 - Furiex posts Q2 loss as increased R&D spending and higher admin costs offset revenue gains, but firm is confident development model can boost partners’ pipelines.

People on the move: pharma jobs

09-Aug-2010 - in-PharmaTechnologist presents its latest round up of movements in the pharma sector, including appointments at Watson Pharmaceuticals, Shire, Lupin and AmerisourceBergen.

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Regulatory expert insight: Business Processing Outsourcing

04-Aug-2010 - In the first of a series of special in-pharmatechnologist podcasts Kate Wilber, Image Solutions’ (ISI) director of regulatory Services, Europe discusses the emerging trends in BPO and talks about how it can benefit drugmakers.

US patients call for Fabrazyme patent break; Are you watching Sanofi?

03-Aug-2010 - Calls for US government to break Genzyme’s Fabrazyme patents accompany more speculation that French drugmaker Sanofi Aventis is in takeover talks.

People on the move: pharma jobs

02-Aug-2010 - in-PharmaTechnologist presents its latest round up of movements in the pharma sector, including appointments at Roche, Caraco, CMP Therapeutics and Unilife.

in-Pharmatechnologist.com goes mobile

02-Aug-2010 - From today, you can access in-Pharmatechnologist.com from your mobile phone.

Guest article

Pharma consolidation and the downstream impact on CROs

29-Jul-2010 - Significant biopharm consolidation has played a key role in reshaping the drug development sector. Viq Pervaaz, senior vice president at Aon Consulting, discusses the changes and how they will impact on contract research organizations (CRO).

People on the move: pharma jobs

27-Jul-2010 - in-PharmaTechnologist presents its latest round up of movements in the pharma sector, including appointments at Phage Pharmaceuticals, the USP and Nycomed.

News in brief

Becton Dickson plans East coast distribution boost

26-Jul-2010 - Medical Technology group Becton Dickson (BD) will build a $38m warehouse facility in Four Oaks, North Carolina, according to State Governor Bev Perdue.

EU majors reported to be looking at Genzyme

26-Jul-2010 - European drugmakers Sanofi-Aventis and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) are rumoured to be looking at a possible acquisition of US biotechnology group Genzyme.

Group claims Irish COE would create 4,800 jobs

20-Jul-2010 - A group of Irish drug firms and banks plan to set up a “global pharmaceutical centre of excellence” (COE) that they believe will create 4,800 research, development and manufacturing jobs.

News in brief

CSL to build $235m manufacturing facility

20-Jul-2010 - Australian vaccine maker CSL says new $235m plant will advance development of its portfolio of biotech cancer drugs, anti-infectives and plasma products.

People on the move: pharma jobs

19-Jul-2010 - in-PharmaTechnologist presents its latest round up of movements in the pharma sector, including a new leader at PhRMA and KV replacing its CFO after three months in the job.

ViiV opens HIV portfolio to generics firms

19-Jul-2010 - GSK and Pfizer’s ViiV Healthcare JV says it will make its entire drug portfolio available to generics manufacturers and 80 per cent the global HIV-infected population.

Interactive Quiz

EU industry quiz – how much do you know about H1 2010?

16-Jul-2010 - Covering PPD and Pfizer, Sweden and Switzerland our European map-based quiz tests your knowledge of recent biopharm events against colleagues, peers and our community of readers.

Guest article

M&A processes, pitfalls and keys to success

15-Jul-2010 - M&A can help revitalize firms but failure to properly integrate the companies can create an inefficient, demoralized business. In this article, Viq Pervaaz, senior vice president at Aon Consulting, takes a look at M&A processes, pitfalls and keys to success.

People on the move: pharma jobs

13-Jul-2010 - in-PharmaTechnologist presents its latest round up of movements in the pharma sector, including appointments at GSK, KV Pharmaceutical, ParagonRx, West, Novavax and Unilife.

Eurofarma expands capacity with Laborátorios Gautier

08-Jul-2010 - Brazilian generics manufacturer Eurofarma has acquired Uruguay counterpart Laboratorios Gautier, further expanding its reach across Latin America.

People on the move: pharma jobs

06-Jul-2010 - in-PharmaTechnologist presents its latest round up of movements in the pharma sector, including appointments at Elan, Inspire Pharmaceuticals, BioVex and Lux Biosciences.

Sanofi said to be planning $20bn acquisition in US

05-Jul-2010 - Rumour has it that French drug giant Sanofi Aventis is planning to make a $20bn (€16bn) acquisition in the US with speculation that biotechs like Allergan, Biogen Idec and Genzyme are among the targets.

Abbott exploring sale of vaccines unit

05-Jul-2010 - Abbott Laboratories has confirmed it is considering the sale of the vaccines unit it gained with the €4.5bn ($6.2bn) acquisition of Solvay Pharmaceuticals in February .

Sanofi to set up new facility in Saudi Arabia

30-Jun-2010 - Sanofi-Aventis will build a new manufacturing plant in King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) in Saudi Arabia through an agreement with the Emaar development company (ECC).

People on the move: pharma manufacturing jobs

30-Jun-2010 - in-PharmaTechnologist presents its latest round up of movements in the pharma space, including appointments at DSM, Codexis, USP and MonoSol Rx.

Alembic to demerge pharma business

30-Jun-2010 - India’s oldest pharmaceutical company Alembic went one step closer to the biggest restructuring in its history as its board approved the demerging of its main pharmaceutical business into a separate subsidiary company, Alembic Pharma.