Pan-American countries should adopt EMA-style regulations to increase clinical trial transparency and streamline research, according to a recent report.
UDG Healthcare has acquired two healthcare-focused firms, expanding its global footprint and service offerings – including those in health economics and outcomes research – in a deal worth up to $82.4m.
Forty mice were launched into space last week aboard the SpaceX Dragon, which will deliver the genetically engineered research models to the International Space Station for study in microgravity.
Sanofi will tap Japanese academics' personalised medicine knowhow under a new collaboration with the University of Tokyo's translational research initiative (TR).
Hermes Pharma has added hot melt coating capabilities to its offering and hopes the food industry technique will win it pharma customers with unpleasant tasting APIs.
After months of speculation, Charles River Laboratories has decided to move forward with the re-opening of its early-stage research site in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts sometime in the first quarter of 2016.
British MPs have signed an anti-animal cruelty pledge which scientists warn would “cripple” disease research and outlaw 89% of preclinical animal research.
MedImmune, the biologics R&D arm of AstraZeneca, and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have signed a five-year agreement to support research that will help advance drug discovery and biomanufacturing.
Animal-model contract research organisation (CRO) Crown Bioscience will open a research centre in North Carolina, combining expanded oncology services with its existing cardiovascular and metabolic offerings.
In a rare win for a CRO, Quintiles was awarded a two-year, $1.088M research grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to compare the effectiveness of uterine fibroid treatments.
Epidemiological and other medical research could be prohibitively difficult to conduct if a new European regulation is passed, according to three professors from the University of Amsterdam.
Researchers say cluster randomized trials (CRTs) present "distinct ethical challenges" and have created 15 "guidelines" to help researchers and ethics committees address them.
HUYA Bioscience says it will strengthen bonds between Chinese drug innovators and worldwide developers and through its new partnership with the Tianjin Institute of Pharmaceutical Research (TIPR).
US Contract research laboratory Metrics reveals that benzophenone, a component used in varnish on labels, is able to migrate through HDPE bottles to reach the pills inside.
Results from PAT humidity monitoring research will improve API granulation process, product yields and reduce variability during drug manufacture, says NextPharma.
Freeslate has entered into a strategic partnership with Johnson and Johnson (J&J) to provide the pharma with integrated workflows, software and research services until 2012.
ACRO is aiming to increase recognition and analysis of the value CROs bring to drug development, spanning their role as strategic partners throughout the process, by funding academic research.
Biotechs that partner or outsource in emerging markets are better equipped to innovate and prosper, according to research that warns “if you are not in Shanghai, Mumbai, or Dubai, watch out".
Singapore's Economic Development Board has been taking strides over
the past year to further its biomedical sciences industry and vie
for global attention amidst the other Asia Pacific players,
particularly in the field of translational...
Outsourced pharmaceutical R&D spending is set to increase
at twice the expected rate of general R&D expenditure
for the next five years, according to new research published this
week.
A new clinical research tool is now available, offering
investigators the ability to integrate clinical data from a number
of different sources across the clinical development spectrum.
A group of researchers have come together to form a coalition,
which aims to campaign for the revision directives on the
protection of animals used for scientific research.
There is a growing realisation in pharma that, to remain
competitive, paper-based trials are not the way forward. Instead,
electronic data capture (EDC) and management technology solutions
are now readily available and becoming more...
Researchers have discovered a series of enzyme inhibitors that
appear to block the replication of the SARS virus - a finding that
could help speed up the research and development of drugs used to
treat the killer virus.
Lab research scientists are being urged to drop their paper
notebooks and go electronic with Infotrievea's new management
software and the company's online research centre, reports Ahmed
ElAmin.
Cardiff-based drug delivery company Q Chip has extended its
collaborative research deal with Biocompatibles International, a
medical device company focused on the treatment of cardiovascular
disease, cancer and benign tumours.
In the first of a two-part interview, DrugResearcher.com
took time out to talk to Dr. Tim Jaeger, director of business
development at iAS interactive Systems, Germany. Speaking at the
recent Drug Discovery Technology Europe conference...
Researchers at the University of Derby in the UK are appealing for
industrial partners to join their research programme into tackling
problems associated with misleading medicine labels, difficult drug
names and package designs.
Proposals to introduce a 'scientific visa' to facilitate movement
of third country researchers to and within the EU have been adopted
by the European Commission, writes Wai Lang Chu.
Much animal research into potential human treatments is wasted
because it is poorly conducted and not thoroughly evaluated,
according to a commentary in the British Medical Journal (28
February).
Chemicals company Sigma-Aldrich is to build an $8 million (€6.5m)
laboratory-scale production facility for pharmaceuticals in
Hyderabad, India, that will act as a feeder site for its plants
elsewhere.
As the lead story today on In-Pharmatechnologist.com
highlights, the European brain-drain is far from slowing down with
the US continuing to attract researchers and entrepreneurs. A fact
that has had, and will continue to have, a...
