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16-Sep-2005 - Medimmune announced the signing of an agreement to acquire Cellective Therapeutics, in a deal that furthers its strategy of increasing new drug candidates in its specialist areas of cancer and autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
16-Sep-2005 - UK pharmaceutical testing company Cirrus Laboratories has been acquired by Bodycote Materials Testing, an international provider of materials testing services to industry.
16-Sep-2005 - Novis, the publisher of Outsourcing-Pharma.com, 22 other business news websites and more than 50 specialist e-newsletters, is today changing its name to Decision News Media, to convey the editorial ethos that has made the group's news services into market leaders.
15-Sep-2005 - Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly looking to retain their internal focus on research and development (R&D) and marketing while outsourcing their manufacturing processes, thus fueling a growing demand for the manufacturing capacities of contract manufacturing organisations (CMOs).
15-Sep-2005 - BioSante Pharmaceuticals has licensed its calcium phosphate (CaP) nanotechnology - used for drug delivery and as an adjuvant for vaccines - to an unnamed European pharmaceutical company.
14-Sep-2005 - India's largest pharmaceutical packaging company, Bilcare, is planning to open a subsidiary in Germany, shortly after announcing a major acquisition in the US, in a move that underlines its international ambitions.
13-Sep-2005 - Switzerland's Lonza has boosted its ability to make active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) at its Visp site in response to what it said was 'ever increasing hygienic and regulatory requirements'.
13-Sep-2005 - Ambion and Rosetta Genomics have announced a licensing and commercialisaton agreement to advance microRNA research. The results will facilitate microRNA research that hails this as a promising area in the treatment of a range of diseases.
09-Sep-2005 - Biotechnology firm, MorphoSys, have announced an agreement with pharmaceutical company Shionogi, in a deal that fits into MorphoSys' effort to expand geographically into the Japanese market - currently the second largest individual pharmaceutical market in the world.
08-Sep-2005 - Anglo-German company Evotec has reorganised its pharmaceutical development services business by integrating its ProPharma subsidiary, based in Scotland, into a new structure alongside its in-house activities.
07-Sep-2005 - Akzo Nobel business unit Diosynth, which specialises in the production of complex active biopharmaceutical ingredients for the pharmaceutical sector, has won a contract to apply its new method for manufacturing synthetic peptides that, it claims, increases the speed and flexibility of the process.
06-Sep-2005 - French drug delivery company Flamel Technologies suffered another blow yesterday when it was revealed that TAP Pharmaceutical Products has pulled out of deal to develop a formulation of its big-selling gastrointestinal drug lansoprazole based on Flamel's Micropump technology.
05-Sep-2005 - Following hot on the heels of the GSK's expansion of its vaccine division, Novartis is seeking to take control of vaccine maker Chiron by buying the remaining shares it does not already own in the US firm for $4.5bn (£2.5bn).
02-Sep-2005 - Britiain's largest drugsmaker, GlaxoSmithKline, announced it is to expand its ability to increase vaccines supplies by acquiring a vaccine research and production facility from rivals Wyeth.
31-Aug-2005 - The cost-effective benefits and research standards set to become international has added to the attraction of outsourcing R&D to India and China - two developing nations that are set to ease the ever-increasing cost pressures, shorter product life cycles and numerous regulatory challenges in the West.
30-Aug-2005 - Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), announced today that it has been awarded an additional information technology (IT) outsourcing contract with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), valued at $100.5 million (€82 million) over five years.
09-Aug-2005 - Peakdale Molecular launches its latest G-Protein Coupled Receptor (GPCR) library, specifically designed to synthesise and characterise for screening against aminergic GPCR targets.
08-Aug-2005 - BioFocus and Organon have announced they are to embark on the second phase of collaborative projects involving key GPCR targets for therapeutic applications and drug discovery.
02-Aug-2005 - Melbourn Scientific is to launch a new pharmacopeial test facility providing a range of contract analytical services to the pharmaceutical industry. The move comes in response to market demand.
01-Aug-2005 - Charles River Laboratories saw a double digit boost in fiscal second quarter revenues with a leap in operating earnings, helped by its acquisition of Inveresk Research Group, and also to continuing strong demand for research models and outsourced preclinical services.
27-Jul-2005 - Labcyte has announced that it has closed its latest round of financing in which $21 milllion was raised. The funds will be used to expand its low-volume liquid handling business with a view to marketing the next Labcyte product in the genomics and proteomics market.
22-Jul-2005 - Pfizer has revealed that it is set to outsource some of its technology jobs to India, harnessing the country's IT infrastructure to focus more on clinical trial and other R&D-related information management.
18-Jul-2005 - US-based laboratory equipment specialist VWR International has boosted its presence in Europe via the acquisition of Technical Service Lab, a Dutch calibration and validation company.
12-Jul-2005 - French biotechnology company Proteus is launching a business unit to provide protein engineering and production services for the life science industry.
06-Jul-2005 - Millipore has bolstered its position in the contract testing business with the acquisition of a Dutch contract laboratory.