Epidemiologists conducting national precision medicine initiatives focused on gathering clinical research data on genetic variation among East and South Asian populations now have access to Thermo Fisher Scientific's Applied Biosystems Axiom Asia Precision Medicine Research Array.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, and SRI International, a research center that creates world-changing solutions, today announced the results of a collaboration agreement to enable researchers to combine the results of high-resolution Orbitrap LC/MS experiments with highly curated and organism-specific metabolic pathway and genome data for quick and effective mass spectrometry-based small molecule research and analysis.

Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that, in alignment with Chinese regulations, it has temporarily withdrawn its new drug application for anticancer agent eribulin mesylate (Brand name: Halaven) in China in order to submit additional documentation.

AbbVie , a global biopharmaceutical company, and Principia Biopharma Inc., a private, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced today that they have entered a collaboration for the development of oral immunoproteasome inhibitors.

eTheRNA immunotherapies, a clinical-stage company developing mRNA based cancer immunotherapies from its unique TriMix platform, announces the start of the first Phase Ib oncology clinical study evaluating its novel candidate TriMix-MEL (ECI-006) in metastatic melanoma patients showing no evidence of disease after surgical removal of their tumor, but at risk for disease recurrence.

Sandoz, a Novartis division, and the pioneer and global leader in biosimilars, announced today that the EC  has approved Rixathon® (biosimilar rituximab*) for use in Europe**. Rixathon is approved for use in all indications of the reference medicine, MabThera® [2],[3].