Friday, January 06, 2006
TransTech Pharma and Boehringer Ingelheim Initiate Drug Discovery Collaboration
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Friday, January 06, 2006
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1) TransTech Pharma and Boehringer Ingelheim Initiate $54 Million Drug Discovery Collaboration
2) Perlegen Forms Collaboration With Genentech in Cancer Genetics
3) Pfizer Invests $50 Million In Perlegen Sciences
4) Quintiles Book Shows Path To High-Performance Phase IIIB-IV Research
5) Xenogen Announces Extension of Global Licensing Agreement
6) Vaccine For Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Active In Patients With Persistent Disease
7) The Personalized Medicine Market Aims to Match the Most Appropriate Drug to the Right Person
8) Cetek Raises $10 Million To Advance Drug Discovery And Development
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1) TransTech Pharma and Boehringer Ingelheim Initiate $54 Million Drug Discovery Collaboration
TransTech Pharma, Inc. recently announced a worldwide research and license collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH using TransTech's proprietary TTP Translational Technology(R)...
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2) Perlegen Forms Collaboration With Genentech in Cancer Genetics
Perlegen Sciences, Inc. announced today that it has begun a collaboration with Genentech, Inc. to study the genetics of cancer...
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3) Pfizer Invests $50 Million In Perlegen Sciences
Perlegen Sciences, Inc. announced recently that Pfizer Inc has made a $50 million equity investment in Perlegen, taking a twelve percent position in the private biotechnology company...
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4) Quintiles Book Shows Path To High-Performance Phase IIIB-IV Research
Patients, physicians, payers and politicians are calling for more information on the risks and benefits of prescription drugs. At the same time, some organizations are questioning the value of direct-to-consumer advertising...
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5) Xenogen Announces Extension of Global Licensing Agreement
Xenogen Corporation announced recently an extension of its licensing agreement with Novartis for up to two more years...
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6) Vaccine For Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Active In Patients With Persistent Disease
Breakthrough Therapeutics, a privately owned biotechnology company, recently announced the presentation of positive interim data for a novel vaccine known as VAX100 for patients with persistent chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) while on imatinib mesylate (Gleevec(R); Novartis)...
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7) The Personalized Medicine Market Aims to Match the Most Appropriate Drug to the Right Person
The aim of personalized medicine or individualized treatment is to match the right drug to the right patient and, in some cases, even to design the appropriate treatment for a patient according to his/her genotype...
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8) Cetek Raises $10 Million To Advance Drug Discovery And Development
Cetek Corporation announced it has raised $10 million to advance its proprietary drug discovery platform and its emerging pipeline of compounds to treat cancer and infectious diseases...
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