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Orion research foundation grants €1 million for research
Orion and Finland are both celebrating their centenaries in 2017.
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£100 million for Cancer Research’s ‘grand challenge’ competition winners
Cancer Research UK announced that four international teams are the first recipients of its global £100m Grand Challenge competition, which aims to overcome the biggest challenges facing cancer researchers in a global effort to beat cancer sooner.
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Genmab appoints Judith Klimovsky as Chief Development Officer
The biotechnology company Genmab announced today the appointment of Judith Klimovsky, MD, as Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer.
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Scientists initiate first ethical guidelines for organs cultivated in vitro
Organ models, which are cultivated in the laboratory from human stem cells and grow into living tissue, are one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of recent years.
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Exco InTouch receives EU-US data security certification
The designation certifies that Exco InTouch’s practices meet or exceed the data privacy and security principles outlined by US Department of Commerce and European Commission.
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Big pharma establishes new industry standards group
Pharma companies involved include Allergan, AstraZeneca, Biogen, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, and Pfizer.
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Takeda to acquire ARIAD Pharmaceuticals
The transaction has been approved unanimously by the boards of directors of both companies, and is expected to close by the end of February 2017.
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Latest revision on FDA combination product guidance presented at Pre-Filled Syringes Boston Summit
FDA Present on Regulatory Considerations for Combination Products at Pre-Filled Syringes East Coast this Spring...
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Macrophage raises £9 million & acquires immune-oncology technology
Macrophage Pharma, a newly formed immune-oncology company, has successfully raised £9 million in a Series A equity financing round.
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Ottoline Leyser wins 2017 FEBS EMBO Women in Science Award
This award recognises outstanding achievements of female researchers in the life sciences in the past five years.
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Kymab receives $9m R+D grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The monoclonal antibody biopharmaceutical group Kymab announced today that it has received a $9m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate the development of novel vaccines and therapeutics for infectious diseases, including HIV.
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Jai Patel appointed as Chief Medical Officer of Enterome
Enterome is pleased to announce the appointments of Jai Patel, PhD as Chief Medical Officer and Roger Garceau, MD as non-executive Director.
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Kymab secures $100 million Series C funding
1 December 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Editor
The funds will enable Kymab to advance its proprietary pipeline of first-in-class therapeutic human monoclonal antibodies, with clinical development in 2017...
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German Research Foundation (DFG) gives €87 million to fund 20 new research groups
29 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Editor
The Research Training Groups will receive funding of around €87 million for an initial period of four and a half years...
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Promising antibiotic programme gets European boost
21 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Researchers at the University of Oxford have been working with two major EU-funded projects to deliver a novel antibiotic programme for clinical development...
