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31-Jul-2003
Argonaut exits HPLC business
31-Jul-2003 - Argonaut Technologies has divested its high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) business as it continues its strategy of refocusing its business on supplying chemistry consumables for pharmaceutical...
30-Jul-2003
Degussa buys into "designer" solvents
30-Jul-2003 - Degussa has acquired a stake in a company specialising in ionic liquids, an innovative technology that could provide a greener alternative to commonly used volatile...
New team in protein separation
30-Jul-2003 - Sweden-based Alfa Laval has entered into a joint marketing agreement with Millipore that will see the two firms work together to supply tools for the...
Amersham comes in low, but on track
30-Jul-2003 - Amersham today trimmed its 2003 profit forecast by £40 million (€57m), or 4.1 pence per share, after reporting lower sales and pre-tax profits for the...
Roche buys its way out of diagnostics trouble
30-Jul-2003 - Swiss drugs and diagnostics major Roche has moved to settle its long-running legal dispute with USA-based Igen by acquiring the firm in a deal valued...
Pliva opens new unit in USA
30-Jul-2003 - Hungary-headquartered Pliva has continued its rapid expansion with the opening of a new R&D facility in the USA that will carry out formulation work on...
Funguard capacity to swell on sales growth
30-Jul-2003 - Japan's Fujisawa has decided to build a new formulation plant for its recently launched candin antifungal micafungin (Japanese trade name Funguard) with a capital investment...
28-Jul-2003
Pharma holds back life sciences at DSM
28-Jul-2003 - DSM looks unlikely to grow its operating profit this year after reporting lacklustre second-quarter results on the back of weaker demand for its products and...
Sweet way to protein production
28-Jul-2003 - Scientists in Texas have developed a way of producing recombinant proteins in sugarcane that they claim will be safe and less expensive than other transgenic...
Chemical ID for high-value products
28-Jul-2003 - US company Vencor has launched a range of chemical taggants that can be used to provide secure identification of products, including pharmaceuticals and speciality chemicals....
Baxter wins court order in Bayer espionage case
28-Jul-2003 - A judge has ordered an employee at Bayer's US subsidiary to hand over documents and computer files to the court in a lawsuit brought by...
Harmonisation panel makes progress on CTD
28-Jul-2003 - The latest meeting of the International Conference on Harmonisation steering committee saw progress being made on a number of fronts, including the common technical document...
InnaPhase completes Beckman LAO buy
28-Jul-2003 - InnaPhase has completed the transaction of Beckman Coulter's Laboratory Automation Operations (LAO) that was announced in May of this year. Details of the cash transaction...
25-Jul-2003
LGC expands pharma business outside UK
25-Jul-2003 - UK-based analytical laboratory company LGC has acquired Germany's Mikromol, a specialist in the synthesis and sale of pharmaceutical impurities and metabolites as reference materials. This...
Baxter accuses former employee of espionage
25-Jul-2003 - Baxter has filed a lawsuit in the USA alleging that one of its former employees provided proprietary information to rival company Bayer. The first hearing...
A new whey for pharma-grade lactose
25-Jul-2003 - Australian dairy farmers could become major suppliers of pharmaceutical-grade lactose, if a new technology developed at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) can...
Production starts at Abu Dhabi's Neo Pharma
25-Jul-2003 - Neo Pharma has become the first pharmaceutical manufacturing company to start production in Abu Dhabi, according to local press reports. After a three-month period of...
Gentler risedronate forms patented by P&G
25-Jul-2003 - Procter & Gamble has patented a new formulation of its osteoporosis drug risedronate that overcomes the upper gastrointestinal side effects sometimes associated with the drug....
24-Jul-2003
Pharma's focus on growth "unsustainable" says report
24-Jul-2003 - The pharmaceutical industry is failing to increase efficiencies in core areas of its business - such as clinical trials and sales - because of an...
23-Jul-2003
Lonza revamp comes too late for first-half figures
23-Jul-2003 - The difficulties facing Lonza came into clear focus today as the company published its half-year results, with sales down across its custom manufacturing, organic chemicals...
Emisphere tech aids oral protein delivery
23-Jul-2003 - A drug delivery technology developed by Emisphere Technologies has been shown to provide effective oral administration of protein-based drugs in three studies presented at the...
BASF buys pharma chemical firm
23-Jul-2003 - Chemical major BASF has expanded the range of products it offers to pharmaceutical clients with the $65 million (€58m) purchase of Callery Chemical from Mine...
FDA starts anti-counterfeiting drive
23-Jul-2003 - The US Food and Drug Administration has launched an offensive against counterfeit pharmaceuticals after seeing an increase in both the number of cases and the...
Coping with chemical uncertainty
23-Jul-2003 - A European Union project funded under the EUREKA programme has designed a software system aimed at helping pharmaceutical and food companies comply with chemical limit...
Drug delivers double-whammy to diabetes
23-Jul-2003 - Scientists at Roche have discovered a new class of drug that may be of use in the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes. The...
22-Jul-2003
Millipore 2Q sales up but biotech static
22-Jul-2003 - Millipore has reported buoyant sales growth in the second quarter of this year but was let down by a lacklustre showing from its biotechnology division,...
21-Jul-2003
Think formulation design, says software firm
21-Jul-2003 - UK software company Intelligensys has launched a new product that promises a step forward in the application of artificial intelligence technologies to formulation design. The...
Akzo results better than expected
21-Jul-2003 - Akzo Nobel's second-quarter results have revealed increasing pressure on its pharmaceuticals business and led to renewed speculation that it may consider splitting drugs from its...
Controlled-release - from a softgel
21-Jul-2003 - Banner Pharmacaps has unveiled what it claims is the first controlled-release system to be based on a softgel capsule platform. The company is not providing...
LipoCore hints at major partner
21-Jul-2003 - LipoCore's drug delivery technology is to be the subject of a major feasibility study at one of the largest multinational pharmaceutical manufacturers in the autumn,...
Galen says takeover talks break down
21-Jul-2003 - Negotiations have fallen down over the proposed purchase of Galen Holdings of Northern Ireland by a firm believed to be US generics specialist Barr Laboratories....
16-Jul-2003
Assay identifies cells for Ab production
16-Jul-2003 - US company One Cell Systems has been awarded a government grant to develop a novel approach for identifying hybridoma cells that produce antigen-specific antibodies. The...
Toolkit helps chemist plan drug synthesis
16-Jul-2003 - A reagent kit developed by Argonaut Technologies promises to help chemists identify the best synthesis route for drug candidates in the earliest stages of drug...
Roche plant falls foul of FDA rules
16-Jul-2003 - A plant operated by Roche Diagnostics for the manufacture of insulin pumps has serious regulatory compliance problems, according to a letter posted on the US...
Metrohm extends titrator range for routine QC
16-Jul-2003 - UK company Metrohm has launched two new titrators in its economical Titrino range designed for general quality control and assurance applications, including the analysis of...
Sheep cull follows staff cuts at PPL
16-Jul-2003 - Scotland's PPL has started a mass slaughter of its transgenic sheep engineered to produce alpha-1 antitrypsin, a drug intended for emphysema, in their milk. The...
India's Wockhardt buys CP Pharma
16-Jul-2003 - Indian drugmaker Wockhardt has acquired UK-based CP Pharmaceuticals in a deal valued at £10.9 million (€15.6m) that grows the Indian firm's UK market presence, as...
15-Jul-2003
Celltech books long run at Lonza facility
15-Jul-2003 - Lonza Biotec is to manufacture PEGylated antibody fragment-based drugs for Celltech under the terms of a new agreement between the two companies. The two companies...
Celsis wins long-term GSK contract
15-Jul-2003 - Celsis International, a UK-based company specialising in microbiological screening, has won a contract to provide its systems to GlaxoSmithKline as a preferred supplier. Celsis has...
Crucell revenues slide in 2Q
15-Jul-2003 - Dutch biotechnology company Crucell has reported a decline in revenues for the second quarter of 2003, down 62 per cent to €1.1 million from €2.9...
Applikon to distribute Niro homogenisers
15-Jul-2003 - The Netherlands' Applikon Biotechnology has entered into an agreement with Niro Soavi, part of the GEA Group, for the distribution of lab-scale homogenisers to the...
EU states taken to ECoJ over biotech
15-Jul-2003 - The European Commission is to refer eight European Union member states to the European Court of Justice over what it alleges is their continued failure...
IT consultancy branches into life sciences
15-Jul-2003 - CTG, a specialist in validation and verification information technology and good automated manufacturing practices, has set up a consultancy to serve companies in the life...
11-Jul-2003
Denmark booms on back of US exports
11-Jul-2003 - Danish pharmaceutical companies increased their sales to overseas countries by 20 per cent in the first four months of this year compared with the same...
Merck cuts activities in France
11-Jul-2003 - Germany's Merck KGaA has trimmed down its operations in France with the closure of a site at Lacassagne focusing on preclinical R&D and production. R&D...
Integra culture vessel boosts MAb production
11-Jul-2003 - A range of cell culture vessels developed by Switzerland's Integra Biosciences promises to increase production yields in laboratories making monoclonal antibodies and recombinant proteins, according...
Lock offers key to Part 11 compliance
11-Jul-2003 - UK firm Lock Inspection Systems has developed a software package for use alongside its metal detection systems that will make it easier for pharmaceutical manufacturers...
Lonza expands into discovery with Vaccinex deal
11-Jul-2003 - A new deal with Vaccinex has taken Lonza Biologics beyond its primary focus of mammalian cell culture-based manufacturing and into the area of antibody drug...
Joint venture takes Profile towards US presence
11-Jul-2003 - Profile Therapeutics has formalised a joint venture with Breath Ltd that opens the door to the roll out of its drug delivery technologies in North...
09-Jul-2003
€2bn credit facility for Degussa
09-Jul-2003 - Germany's third largest chemical company has raised € 2 bn of credit lines by means of a syndicated facility with a group of leading international...
Chiron collars PowderJect
09-Jul-2003 - Chiron's has completed its $888 million (€782m) acquisition of UK vaccine and drug delivery specialist PowderJect, at a stroke becoming the second-largest manufacturer of influenza...
DSM-Gist signs Chinese deal
09-Jul-2003 - Gist, a unit of Dutch chemicals and pharmaceuticals group DSM, has entered into an agreement with China's Guangzhou Baiyunshan General Pharma for the supply and...
BASF outlines plan for a greener future
09-Jul-2003 - Europe's biggest chemicals company, BASF, has put forward plans to improve further its environmental and safety standards, with the objective of cutting emissions of air...
EU and Japan seek to align GMP
09-Jul-2003 - The European Union and Japan have agreed that there is still a lot of work to be done before a system of mutual recognition of...
Massachusetts to get biotech boost
09-Jul-2003 - York Street, a US developer of real estate for biotechnology manufacturing, development and research has reached agreement with three Massachusetts-based companies to develop a large-scale...
08-Jul-2003
Roche licenses Avastin outside USA
08-Jul-2003 - Roche has licensed exclusive marketing rights outside the USA to Avastin (bevacizumab), a drug for colorectal cancer, from Genentech. The latter company will retain all...
Schering gets EU approval for Angeliq
08-Jul-2003 - Germany's Schering has been granted approval throughout the European Union for Angeliq (oestradiol and drospirenone), its new low-dose hormone replacement therapy. The news is a...
07-Jul-2003
Novo signs up Morphotek for protein enhancement
07-Jul-2003 - Danish pharmaceuticals company Novo Nordisk has enlisted the aid of the USA's Morphotek to improve the manufacturing process for one of its marketed protein therapeutics....
UK grant for IVAX manufacturing plant
07-Jul-2003 - The UK subsidiary of IVAX, IVAX Pharmaceuticals UK, has received a $6 million (€3.9m) grant to complete the construction of a $41 million manufacturing plant...
Whatman liquidates German unit
07-Jul-2003 - UK separations specialist Whatman has decided to wind down the operations of its German subsidiary Biometra Biomedizinische Analytik, which makes laboratory instruments and thermocyclers. The...
Nitto Denko buys Elan's patch business
07-Jul-2003 - Japan's Nitto Denko is to buy Elan Transdermal Technologies in what is regarded as the first stage of a strategy to roll-out Nitto's drug delivery...
Millipore water software helps GLP compliance
07-Jul-2003 - Millipore has launched a new suite of software that allows users to automatically record and retrieve water quality data for better compliance with Good Laboratory...
Orion closes down Danish manufacturing
07-Jul-2003 - Troubled Finnish group Orion has decided to close down its pharmaceutical manufacturing operations in Denmark in a bid to save money. The company recently announced...
Australian BioBall for micro QC
07-Jul-2003 - Australian firm Biotechnology Frontiers has been awarded a government grant to develop a new microbiological quality control tool that can be used in the pharmaceutical...
04-Jul-2003
Caliper gets OK for Zymark purchase
04-Jul-2003 - Caliper Technologies has been given the go-ahead by the US federal Trade Commission for its $71 million cash and stock acquisition of Zymark, a specialist...
FDA rebuffs Akzo fertility product
04-Jul-2003 - Akzo Nobel received a knock-back from the US Food and Drug Administration after the agency asked for more information before approving a ready-to-use version of...
Patch system from LTS gets US patent
04-Jul-2003 - Germany's Lohmann Therapie-System has been granted a US patent on a new process for the manufacture of a multilayer laminate that can be used for...
DSM takes stake in chiral compound specialist
04-Jul-2003 - DSM has taken a 25 per cent interest in Nijmegen, Netherlands-based Chiralix in a move which both expands DSM's capabilities in early-stage drug development and...
Millipore sees throw-away future
04-Jul-2003 - For the last 25 years there has been a significant shift in biopharmaceutical manufacturing from labour-intensive processes to full automation with ready-to-use separation devices. The...
Ultrasound improves biopharma purification
04-Jul-2003 - The use of ultrasound technologies to monitor the process-scale column chromatography can lead to significant improvements in productivity, lower costs and greater drug purity, according...
Biotrace taps into Scandinavia with Maltec buy
04-Jul-2003 - UK microbiology company Biotrace has continued its expansion into the healthcare sector with the acquisition of Denmark's Maltec. The move provides Biotrace with a stronger...
02-Jul-2003
Pfizer to sell Pharmacia diagnostics unit
02-Jul-2003 - Pfizer is considering the sale of its Pharmacia Diagnostics business, acquired alongside the rest of Pharmacia in a $60 billion deal that concluded in April....
Commission responds to G10 report
02-Jul-2003 - The European Commission has issued its long-awaited response to the G10 Medicines Report, intended as a blueprint for improving the European pharmaceutical industry's competitiveness...
Safety syringe set for launch
02-Jul-2003 - The Futura Safety Syringe, developed by UK company Medisys, has successfully passed its final specification tests and should be ready for launch within the next...
McCormick sells packaging ops to Kerr
02-Jul-2003 - US food company McCormick & Co looks set to sell its packaging activities to Kerr Group in a transaction valued at $142.5 million. The deal...
Panic offer seals ICN Bio deal
02-Jul-2003 - Milan Panic, the former Yugoslav prime minister who until recently had been at the helm of ICN Pharmaceuticals for 42 years, has bought the ICN...
New adjuvant patented by Vical
02-Jul-2003 - A new vaccine adjuvant developed by Vical promises to improve the immunogenicity of gene-based immunisation. The company has just been granted a US patent on...
01-Jul-2003
Argonaut resin aids combichem
01-Jul-2003 - Argonaut Technologies has introduced a new resin-bound reagent, MP-TsO-TEMPO that enables medicinal chemists to introduce diversity into chemical libraries with high purity and yields. Jeff...
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