More than 1,400 medical sales professionals took the Best Places to Work survey, and 19 % prefer to work
for pharma companies.
Clearly, an Ireland HQ is particularly attractive
for pharma companies!
Jazz said in a filing that it did so in response to the overall takeover environment
for pharma companies and in light of a patent litigation settlement that allows Hikma Pharmaceuticals to sell a generic version of Xyrem with Jazz receiving royalty payments on those sales.
A good example of an adaptive reuse project, the companies were able to incorporate 95 percent of recycled material from the previous facility, which served Merrill Lynch, to deliver a build - to - suit space
for the pharma company.
Not exact matches
Danish
pharma company Novo Nordisk (nvo), best known
for its insulin - based treatments
for diabetes, said Tuesday it's going to shift its focus slightly to fighting obesity, one of the primary causes of that disease.
Biotech and
pharma companies will get a smaller tax credit
for developing drugs
for rare diseases.
While the early - stage
company still mounted losses
for the quarter, it received more revenue than expected as a result of its collaboration with
pharma giant Pfizer.
Leslie Dan's latest
company, Viventia Bio, looked all set
for a robust 2015 and 2016 before a series of scandals at Valeant Pharmaceuticals brought Canada's whole biotech and
pharma sector crashing down.
Shkreli originally became infamous
for his other former
company Turing
Pharma's 5,000 % price hike
for a drug used by cancer and AIDS patients.
But the initiative comes with another huge financial prize
for firms that successfully win FDA approval
for these niche therapies: a priority review voucher that can be used to slash the regulatory period
for a different experimental specialty treatment being developed by a drug maker or, more often, sold
for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to another
pharma company.
• UroGen
Pharma, an Israel - based clinical stage biopharmaceutical
company, announced terms
for its IPO.
Others, such as consumer watchdog Public Citizen and the preventive medicine advocacy group Trust
for America's Health (TFAH), had very different takes, arguing Cures mostly benefits
pharma companies at the expense of other important public health initiatives.
Martin Shkreli, unaffectionately known as the «
pharma bro» — and infamous
for his decision to hike the list price of Daraprim, a drug used by HIV / AIDS and cancer patients to combat infections, by more than 5,000 % in 2015 under his former
company Turing Pharmaceuticals — was convicted on three criminal securities fraud and conspiracy charges by a Brooklyn jury on Friday.
In periods of rising volatility,
pharma companies are often especially vulnerable because of investors are paying big prices today
for therapies expected to pay off over a long horizon.
«On Nasdaq, the main investors
for biotech stocks are mainly U.S. funds, but, in Hong Kong, we can better tap Chinese and Asian investors as we are closer to them,» said Yang Dajun, chairman of Ascentage
Pharma, a Chinese biotech
company.
Unlike many upstart
pharma companies that must turn to the financial markets
for expansion dollars, Prollenium's sales volume provided the cash it needed to finance new research and development, as well as a major capital project.
The «microbiome,» or the collection of organisms that reside within the human body (especially the gut), has become a big new interest area
for a number of major
pharma companies like Merck and smaller biotechs alike.
That's leaving entire areas open
for the taking and Valeant — a specialty
pharma company that focuses on dermatology, ophthalmology and over-the-counter medications — which already has a strong foothold in emerging markets is poised to fill that void.
Pharma is generally proud of its diversity: A few days before the Trump enacted the ban, J&J published on its website the story of employee Abdullah Al Hommada, who fled his native Syria
for the Netherlands and now works at the
company's Janssen division.
This can set you up also
for more long term reputation rehabilitation by forcing a focus on Turing as a research and development
company — not a
pharma hedge fund hybrid.»
The latest
pharma innovation report from Deloitte holds some pretty grim news
for pharma: returns on R&D investments by large cap
companies slid to a mere 3.7 % in 2016, down from the 10.1 % returns seen in 2010 (although the cost of bringing a drug to market is beginning to stabilize).
Ten of these
companies, our honorees, have matched or outperformed the median annual revenue or profit
for their peers in
pharma, biotech, or tech, as tracked by EY and Capital IQ.
The
companies jockeying
for a first - to - market advantage in the space have encountered plenty of twists and turns along the way — and it appears that
pharma giant Novartis may well achieve its original goal of a pioneering FDA approval
for its own experimental treatment.
Add one more name to the new slew of
pharma companies trying to counteract the public backlash to big drug price increases: France's Sanofi, a $ 126 billion firm known
for its flagship diabetes and vaccines units.
At a moment when the world's fourth - largest pharmaceutical
company by sales (Pfizer) is eagerly courting the world's ninth - largest (the very same AstraZeneca from which Bristol decoupled)-- offering, in late May, a monumental dowry of around $ 120 billion — one can be forgiven
for not noticing the more substantive change that's sweeping the pharmaceutical industry: Big
Pharma is getting smaller.
The environment
for deals among specialty
pharma companies like Jazz has heated up since the beginning of the year.
This was most likely one of the reasons the FDA has rejected
pharma companies» petitions
for it twice, according to FierceBiotech.
A Reuters report citing sources who say that the firm is in talks with investment backs after being approached by several
pharma companies for a buyout.
The premiums that
pharma companies pay
for biotechs with mid-to-late stage experimental drugs has risen to a point that has some analysts crying «bubble.»
While Tesaro is remaining publicly coy
for now, a buyout has always been in the cards as big
pharma companies continue to snap up biotechs that have already done drug development legwork
for them.
Much of the problem, Miller explained, is that Americans are already shouldering more than their fair share of pharmaceutical
companies» costs: While the U.S, accounts
for only 4.6 % of the total world population, it makes up about 40 % of the world's drug spending, and the bulk of
pharma companies» profits, he said.
The California Medical Association, which represents doctors in California, opposes the measure because of that claim, and also because the group said the cancellation of drug purchasing contracts the state already has with
pharma companies «would remove many drugs from the Medi - Cal list of pre-approved medicines — creating a new prior authorization hurdle
for patients and their physicians.»
The spirited
pharma - tech entrepreneur, known
for her liberal use of the color pink and
for the $ 1B sale of her female sexual health
company, is laser - focused on helping female entrepreneurs flourish.
Pharma veteran created a
company that delivers prescription medications to you
for free, on the same day.
The FDA has handed the
pharma giant its second approval
for the drug, the
company said Tuesday afternoon.
A handful of shareholders, including two C - suite execs, are in line
for nine - figure payouts once Novartis completes its acquisition of local
pharma company AveXis.
ICCR encourages
pharma companies to share patents
for their life - saving HIV drug formulations through the Medicines Patent Pool as a way to make them more affordable and available where they are needed most.
Gains in currency - adjusted operational revenue of 15.1 %
for the segment came about half from the Actelion acquisition and half from organic growth, and the
company cited both new products and the strength of core products in boosting
pharma sales.
And once marijuana is rescheduled or descheduled nationwide, all the
pharma companies growing «hemp»
for CBD will already have marijuana farms in operation in terms of environment, feeding, harvest, processing, and distribution.
Immunotherapy has been emerging from the backdrop of oncology research
for years most notably from smaller
companies such as Dendreon, Kite
Pharma and Juno Therapeutics as leaders in the space.
Drug
companies became a favorite villain during the presidential campaign when Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders beat on «
Pharma Bro» Martin Shkreli
for raising a drug price 5,000 %.
The HHS secretary went on to say that his agency wanted to find ways
for Medicaid and Medicare to bring drug prices down by creating more resources to negotiate with
pharma companies.
«Nearly 60 % of projected pipeline revenue — an estimate of how much income
companies will get from drugs in development — comes from externally sourced products» - Max Nisen, Biotech /
pharma columnist
for Gadfly at Bloomberg LP
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Mitzi has served as a nutrition spokesperson
for numerous
companies including: Fiji Water, The National Honey Board, Sambazon, Horizon Organic, Reynold's Wrap, USA Pears, Olive Oil Association, The Hass Avocado Board, Almond Board of California, Wild Blueberries, The Cherry Marketing Institute, Cranberry Marketing Committee, Back to Nature, Bayer Aspirin, Bausch and Lomb, Purdue
Pharma, and Green Giant.
Constantia Flexibles (www.cflex.com), a world leading manufacturer of flexible packaging products and labels that supplies multinational corporations and local market leaders in the food, pet food, pharmaceuticals and beverage industries, has hired Dr. Ibon Odriozola as head of innovation, laminates
for the
company's
pharma division.
Before joining Constantia Flexibles as Sales Director
Pharma in July 2003, Bruchon worked
for different packaging
companies such as VAW Flexibles, AC Folien and Plastohm GmbH.
Keystone Folding Box
Company Introduces Line of Packaging Solutions
for Injectable
Pharma Products
Tim Sykes spoke to Tiziano Petrucciani, quality & technical development director at Molteni Farmaceutici, the renowned Italian specialist in
pharma R&D and production, about the
company's collaboration with Rockwell Automation, using serialisation as a springboard
for a profound modernisation of its manufacturing processes.
While Williams built his reputation on deals such as the merger of fertiliser giants Incitec and Pivot and more recently by advising Bega Cheese in the takeover battle of Warrnambool Cheese & Butter, he has dabbled in small
pharma companies for years.