Brazilian trade officials say they are considering suspending patent and intellectual property rights on goods including agricultural chemicals, biotechnology products, and pharmaceuticals. The announcement stems from a long running dispute between Brazil and...
Around 2001 Dr. Ajaz Hussain and his colleagues at USFDA-based on their experiences-suggested and encouraged the global pharmaceutical industry to improve their process technologies so that the manufacturing practices could be simplified and quality products...
CEO for NEPIC It is with great sadness that we heard of the death of Dr Ashok Kumar MP for Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland. He was well respected by his colleagues in the Process Industry not only locally but nationally as well. He has helped both...
CEO of Hovione For most of this decade we have been told that the number of new drug approvals by FDA is decreasing. An article published in Nature in December 20091 sheds new light on this. Bernard Munos researched the last 60 years of drug approvals...
Bayer CropScience informed the Bombay Stock Exchange (Mumbai) in a statement today that a fire occurred at the company’s production facility at Ankleshwar, India on March...
The meeting at Ankeny, IA the first time U.S. regulators have scrutinized competition and regulation in the seed market, and come amid competitors' and farmers' accusations of antitrust behavior by seed industry's market leader Monsanto....
Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, IL) says it has entered into a definitive agreement with biotechnology company Facet Biotech (Redwood City, CA), to acquire Facet Biotech for $27/share in cash, for a total transaction value of about $450 million. The...
Lonza says it has signed an agreement with drug discovery technology company Odyssey Thera (San Ramon, CA) to make Odyssey Thera’s proprietary protein-fragment complementation assay (PCA) technology, and Odyssey Thera has granted to Lonza an option to...
The site's research will focus on breeding higher-yielding corn hybrids with greater resistance to disease and other stresses prevalent in the south....
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