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Archives :: Chemical Week Magazine :: Pharmaceuticals & Fine Chemicals
Displaying 61 - 80 of 414 stories.
February 27, 2009
The global botanical and plant-derived drug market is expected to blossom by 2013, reaching a combined total of $32.9 billion a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11%, according to...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/pharma_and_fine_chemicals/Botanical-and-Plant-Derived-Drug-Industry-to-Blossom_17311.html February 27, 2009
Pharmaceutical contract manufacturer Haupt Pharma (Berlin) has acquired a Pfizer production facility at Latina, Italy for an undisclosed sum. The plant’s 450 employees will be...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/pharma_and_fine_chemicals/Haupt-Pharma-Acquires-Pfizer-Facility_17312.html February 27, 2009
Cambrex reported a net loss of $697,000 for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2008. The company posted a net profit of $265,000 in the year-ago period. Sales in the 2008 quarter...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/pharma_and_fine_chemicals/Cambrex-Posts-Loss-On-Pricing-Cost-Issues_17313.html February 23, 2009
Capturing the Potential of Innovation in Industrial Biotechnology (CLIB; Duesseldorf), a biotech innovation network featuring 60 member companies, is drawing industry interest by...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/pharma_and_fine_chemicals/German-Biotech-Network-Offers-New-Model-for-Innovation_17207.html February 23, 2009
Fine and specialty chemical suppliers are concerned about the economic downturn but feel they are well-positioned to ride it out, attendees at the Informex expo, held last month in San...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/pharma_and_fine_chemicals/Informex-Moving-Ahead-Amid-Economic-Uncertainty_17169.html February 9, 2009
Pfizer has agreed to acquire Wyeth for $50.19/share, or a total of about $68 billion, in a deal that the companies say will create one of the most diversified health care firms...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/pharma_and_fine_chemicals/Pfizer-to-Acquire-Wyeth-Cut-Jobs-Close-Sites_16923.html February 9, 2009
Lonza and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (Petah Tikva, Israel) say they have agreed to establish a joint venture to develop, manufacture, and market a portfolio of biosimilars. The jv...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/pharma_and_fine_chemicals/Lonza-Teva-to-Form-Biosimilars-JV-Lonza-Starts-Up-Plant-in-China_16924.html February 9, 2009
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; Boston) say they have developed a process to genetically engineer a periwinkle plant cell to produce new compounds. The...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/pharma_and_fine_chemicals/Engineered-Periwinkle-Cells-Yield-New-Compounds_16925.html January 29, 2009
Recessionary pressures are being felt in the biotech and fine chemicals industries, according to attendees and presenters at the Informex expo running this week in San Francisco...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/pharma_and_fine_chemicals/Informex-Recession-Is-a-Major-Concern_16758.html January 28, 2009
Helsinn (Lugano Switzerland), a pharmaceuticals developer and manufacturer, has disclosed during the Informex expo running this week in San Francisco that it has acquired Sapphire...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/pharma_and_fine_chemicals/Informex-Helsinn-Buys-Biopharma-Producer_16739.html January 28, 2009
One major chemical company is well into discussions to sell “the crown jewels” of its fine chemicals business....http://www.chemweek.com/sections/pharma_and_fine_chemicals/Informex-The-Economy-Is-the-Hot-Topic_16716.html January 23, 2009
The U.S. FDA has launched a voluntary pilot program to help promote the safety of drugs and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) produced outside the U.S. The agency plans to...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/pharma_and_fine_chemicals/FDA-Launches-Program-to-Improve-Drug-Safety_16649.html January 23, 2009
Biotechnology firm Xoma (Berkeley, CA) says it will cut 144 jobs, about 42% of its workforce, due to challenging market conditions. Most of the cuts will be in manufacturing, Xoma...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/pharma_and_fine_chemicals/Xoma-to-Slash-Workforce_16650.html January 8, 2009
BASF and Monsanto jointly have announced that they are “a major step closer” to introducing the world’s first drought-tolerant corn variety to the market. The...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/pharma_and_fine_chemicals/BASF-Monsanto-to-Introduce-Drought-Tolerant-Corn-Early-in-the-Next-Decade_16208.html December 19, 2008
Hovione (Loures, Portugal) says it has agreed to buy Pfizer’s multipurpose active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) plant at Loughbeg, Ireland. The deal is scheduled to be...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/pharma_and_fine_chemicals/Hovione-to-Buy-Irish-Pharma-Ingredients-Site-from-Pfizer_16028.html December 19, 2008
Sigma-Aldrich Fine Chemicals’ (SAFC) incoming president Gilles Cottier tells CW that he is “cautiously optimistic” about the company’s prospects during the next...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/pharma_and_fine_chemicals/Incoming-SAFC-President-Cautiously-Optimistic-about-2009-Growth_16029.html December 19, 2008
Andrew von Eschenbach, U.S. FDA commissioner, says in an internal memo to his staff that he will resign from the organization on January 20, 2009, according to press reports...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/pharma_and_fine_chemicals/Head-of-FDA-to-Step-Down_16030.html December 19, 2008
Contract fine chemical and pharmaceutical producer Helsinn (Lugano, Switzerland) says the Irish Medicines Board, a regulatory body, has granted Helsinn’s Birex Pharmaceuticals...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/pharma_and_fine_chemicals/Helsinn-Gains-Pharma-License_16031.html December 12, 2008
Evonik says the recent sale of its Seal Sands, U.K. fine chemical facility and the planned introduction in the next few weeks of a pharmaceutical ingredient facility at Nanning, China...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/pharma_and_fine_chemicals/Evonik-Hones-Pharma-Focus-with-Sale-of-U-K-Unit_15888.html December 12, 2008
Research chemists from the University of Bristol (Bristol, U.K.) and other research institutes, led by Jake L. Stymiest, say they have developed a two-step process for converting...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/pharma_and_fine_chemicals/Researchers-Develop-Two-Step-Process-to-Produce-Chiral-Tertiary-Alcohols_15889.html |
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