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Private equity firms play ‘pass the Parexel’ with $8.5bn handover deal

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The new deal will assists the company’s focus “on advancing and innovating Parexel to meet our customers’ needs across the evolving clinical development landscape,” he added. ” The deal is subject to the usual conditions, including receipt of various approvals from regulators around the world.

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Are radiopharmaceuticals the next breakthrough in oncology?

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However, there is a difference between the two: the toxic payloads of ADCs need to be absorbed into cancer cells, whereas radiopharmaceuticals can still do damage even when only bound to the cancer, and are particularly sensitive to radiation-induced DNA damage. Investment is flowing.

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In The Global Race For The COVID-19 Vaccine, India Stands As A Strong Player

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British-Swedish pharma company AstraZeneca in collaboration with Jenner Institute (Oxford University) is working on Covid-19 vaccine ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 /AZD1222. Based in Ahmedabad, Zydus Cadila is one of the top most pharma companies in the Indian pharmaceutical industry. Zydus Cadila ( ZyCoV-D ).

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Where is the drug discovery expertise happening in the UK?

Drug Discovery World

Despite the overall reduction in major pharma R&D centres in the UK, global pharma companies continue to engage with academic and biotech organisations here, particularly in hotspots such as the Golden Triangle, the Northwest, and Scotland, through the strong networks that have been developed between these organisations.

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New horizon for cancer innovation

Drug Discovery World

RA: How can the integration of industry and academia help streamline drug development? . TH : Increasingly, large pharma companies need scale, agility and access to academic partnerships to succeed. It is unsurprising that many pharma companies are increasingly keen to work with academia or academic spin-out.

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Touchlight boosts DNA manufacturing capacity with latest expansion

Pharmaceutical Technology

Enzymatic DNA production company Touchlight have augmented its DNA production capabilities with a newly announced expansion to its London facilities. Tripling its production capacity, Touchlight can now manufacture 8kg plasmid DNA, a key component for mRNA gene therapies and vaccines.

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BioSpace Global Roundup, Oct. 15

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Priothera will use the funds to progress the clinical development of mocravimod, a modulator of sphingosine 1 phosphate (S1P) receptors, to enhance the curative potential of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for treating AML.