Drug Research

Shire plc, the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced the appointment of two senior Research & Development executives to its Specialty Pharmaceuticals business. Lawson Macartney, DVM, PhD, FRCPath, has been appointed Senior Vice President of the Emerging Business Unit...

Interview with: Teodor Aastrup, Chief Executive Officer, Attana AB "Drug discovery scientists should focus on the biological relevance of their candidate molecules as soon as possible in their research, to ensure a high probability of success...

King Pharmaceuticals®, Inc. and Pain Therapeutics®, Inc. announced that King has resubmitted a New Drug Application (NDA) for REMOXY® (oxycodone) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in response to a Complete Response letter received by Pain Therapeutics...

King Pharmaceuticals®, Inc. and Acura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that King has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) for ACUROX® (oxycodone HCl) Tablets to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including a request for priority review classification. ACUROX® is...

Pfizer Inc. announced that a significantly higher proportion of patients with newly diagnosed chronic myeloid leukemia who were treated with bosutinib (39 percent) experienced a major molecular response (MMR), a secondary endpoint, compared with patients treated with imatinib (26...

Promising vaccine candidates, rising global demand and preparations for the next pandemic influenza have brought vaccine’s role into focus in the past years and resulted in an impressive Pharma market share and revenue (US$ 26billion) in 2009. This...

Scientists working at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Grenoble, France have developed a new technique that enables them to introduce up to 15 fluorescent markers to a mammalian cell in one go. They say their findings could help...