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Featured Story | | | Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Novartis is set to open innovation labs around the world to connect with tech companies. The labs, the first of which has opened in San Francisco, will serve as a bridge between companies developing R&D-enhancing technologies and the broader Novartis business. |
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Top Stories Of The Week Friday, October 5, 2018 GlaxoSmithKline has decided to keep its cephalosporin antibiotics business but reorganize it to be more efficient, cutting nearly 200 jobs at its Ulverston site in the U.K. Monday, October 8, 2018 The FDA has cleared a direct-to-consumer hearing aid, developed by speaker manufacturer Bose, potentially opening the door for other consumer-focused electronics companies. Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Some new CEOs fill out their executive team roster over time as leaders from the previous regime make their exits. Not Pfizer’s. On Tuesday, the New York company unveiled the list of executives that will support incoming chief Albert Bourla when he takes the baton from retiring Ian Read on Jan. 1. Monday, October 8, 2018 Last week, Eli Lilly unveiled positive data for a new diabetes drug with serious potential to disrupt the GLP-1 market. But its rivals don't need to hunker down, analysts said. Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Affimed has halted work on two phase 1 trials of its lead T cell engager AFM11 for blood cancers after a death and two life-threatening events. Monday, October 8, 2018 Merck's Remicade biosimilar hasn't made much of a splash on the market, but the company won a national contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs due to a pricing offer that beat out rivals. Monday, October 8, 2018 Spark Therapeutics announced encouraging preclinical data on SPK-3006, its investigational gene therapy to treat Pompe disease. The inherited lysosomal storage disease causes the sugar glycogen to build up in muscles and organs such as the heart, impairing their function. Monday, October 8, 2018 With HPV vaccine uptake slow to take off in the U.S. way back when, Merck & Co.'s Gardasil shots missed out on many eligible patients. But now, Merck has another chance—and so do the men and women who didn't get their shots the first time around. Wednesday, October 10, 2018 Takeda biotech spinoff GenAhead Bio has inked a nonexclusive license deal to access ERS Genomics’ CRISPR/Cas9 patents for genome editing technology. | This week's sponsor is Biotech Primer. | |  | |
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