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Biogen Idec and Samsung Bioepis Announce Agreement to Market Anti-TNF Biosimilar Product Candidates in Europe

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– Biogen Idec Opts-In to Commercialization Opportunity with Joint Venture Partner – CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & SEOUL, Korea–(December 17, 2013)–Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) and Samsung Bioepis today announced that through their joint venture, Biogen Idec has exercised its right to enter into an agreement to commercialize anti-TNF biosimilar product candidates in Europe, including biosimilars for widely used therapies to […]

Mylan Announces Settlement Agreement for First-to-File Generic Version of TARGRETIN®

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Agreement includes a no-later-than July 9, 2015 launch PITTSBURGH, Dec. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Mylan Inc. (Nasdaq: MYL) today announced that its subsidiary Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. and partner, Banner Pharmacaps Inc. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Patheon Inc.), have entered into a settlement and license agreement with Eisai Inc. and Valeant Pharmaceuticals Luxembourg S.a.r.l that will […]

Health Canada Issues Notice of Compliance for Sovaldi™ (Sofosbuvir) for the Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C

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– Sovaldi Receives Marketing Authorization for Patients with Genotypes 1, 2, 3 or 4 HCV – – High Cure Rates (SVR 12) and Therapy Shortened to Just 12 Weeks for Many Patients – FOSTER CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec. 16, 2013– Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) today announced that Health Canada has issued a Notice of Compliance for Sovaldi™ (sofosbuvir) 400 […]

Varian Imaging Components President Robert Kluge Announces Plans to Retire; Varian CEO Dow Wilson Names Sunny Sanyal as Kluge’s Successor

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PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Varian Medical Systems (NYSE:VAR) today announced that Robert H. Kluge has announced his intention to retire as its Senior Vice President and President, Imaging Components Businesses effective February 7, 2014.  Varian CEO Dow R. Wilson has named and the Board of Directors has appointed Sunny Sanyal, CEO of T-System, to succeed Kluge.  Varian’s Imaging Components Businesses […]

Valeant Pharmaceuticals Agrees to Acquire Solta Medical for $2.92 Per Share in Cash

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Combination Creates a Global Leader in Aesthetics Transaction Values Solta at Approximately $250 Million Transaction Expected to Close in the First Quarter of 2014 LAVAL, Quebec and HAYWARD, Calif., Dec. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (NYSE: VRX and TSX: VRX) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement under which […]

Endo to Acquire Specialty Pharmaceutical Company NuPathe

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MALVERN, Pa., Dec. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Accretive transaction furthers Endo’s transformation into leading specialty healthcare company Builds on Endo’s leadership in pain management through addition of ZECUITY® (sumatriptan iontophoretic transdermal system), the first and only FDA approved patch to treat migraine Proven Endo branded pharmaceuticals commercial team to execute ZECUITY launch, expected in first half 2014 Endo […]

U.S. FDA Approves Gilead’s Once-Daily Single Tablet HIV-1 Regimen Complera® for Patients Switching from a Stable Regimen

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— European Commission Also Approves Expanded Indication for Regimen, Marketed as Eviplera® in the European Union — FOSTER CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec. 13, 2013– Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the single tablet HIV-1 regimen Complera® (emtricitabine/rilpivirine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) for use in certain virologically-suppressed (HIV RNA <50 copies/mL) adult patients on a stable […]

Merck Advances Development Program for Investigational Alzheimer’s Disease Therapy, MK-8931

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Data Monitoring Committee recommends continuation of Phase II/III EPOCH study in mild to moderate disease patients Merck also plans to initiate dosing in Phase III study of prodromal disease patients WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. December 10, 2013 — (BUSINESS WIRE) –Merck (NYSE:MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today provided an update on the […]

Sangamo BioSciences Presents Data From Non-Human Primates Providing Proof Of Concept For Disruptive And Broadly Leverageable Platform For Protein Replacement Therapies

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Data Presented at American Society of Hematology (ASH) Meeting Demonstrates Therapeutic Levels of Gene Modification in Sangamo’s In Vivo Protein Replacement Platform RICHMOND, Calif., Dec. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGMO) announced the presentation of new pre-clinical data demonstrating therapeutic levels of gene modification in non-human primates (NHPs) from its In Vivo Protein Replacement Platform. Based […]

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