Consulting :: Business Services

Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry News From Medical News Today

Leading Drug Database To Be Housed At U-M
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0700
The University of Michigan received $5 million from the National Institutes of Health to develop the world's leading resource of high-quality experimental data sets of drug-making compounds that will ultimately take computer-aided drug design to a new level. The resource will house the data needed to improve computer programs that can predict the effectiveness of potential new drugs, said Heather Carlson, associate professor in the U-M College of Pharmacy and Medicinal Chemistry.
Drug Companies Plan To Invest In HIV/AIDS Drug Development, Improve Access, U.N. Secretary-General Says
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday said that many large pharmaceutical companies -- including Abbott Labs, Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer -- plan to increase their efforts to develop HIV/AIDS drugs and diagnostics for impoverished regions, Reuters reports.
Partnership To Develop Next Generation Of HIV Vaccines
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Elevation Biotech, a start-up biotechnology company funded by LIFElab, an agency of the South African Department of Science and Technology, and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), the world's only global non-profit organization dedicated solely to AIDS vaccine development, have partnered to develop the next generation of AIDS vaccine candidates. "An AIDS vaccine remains our best hope for ending AIDS.
Biovail Comments On Filing Of Lawsuit
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Biovail Corporation (NYSE, TSX: BVF) today announced that it has been notified that a proposed securities class action lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court Southern District of New York against the Company, its Chairman and two former officers. The complaint has been filed on behalf of all persons and entities that purchased Biovail securities from December 14, 2006 through July 19, 2007.
Phase III Study Showed Rituxan In Combination With Chemotherapy Improved Progression-Free Survival In Patients With Relapsed Chronic Leukemia
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0700
Genentech, Inc. (NYSE: DNA) and Biogen Idec (Nasdaq: BIIB) today announced that a global Phase III study of Rituxan® (rituximab) in combination with fludarabine and cyclophosphamide chemotherapy met its primary endpoint of improving progression-free survival (PFS), as assessed by investigators, in patients with previously treated CD20-positive chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) compared to chemotherapy alone. There were no new or unexpected safety signals reported in the study.
Early Data Show Potential For Imatinib To Treat Life-threatening Form Of Pulmonary Artery Disease
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0700
An early proof-of-concept study presented shows promising results for imatinib in the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a severe, incurable blood vessel disorder.

The Seattle Times: Biotech


News on biotechnology pharmaceutical from BioPortfolio.com

Biotechnology against food security: the choice for Africa
Open Democracy:
Research and Markets: A Financial Deals Industry Tracker Focusing on the Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Market
Calibre Macro World:
Stem Cell Leader Beike Signs 8 New Cooperation Agreements, Establishes Safety Monitoring Boards
MedIndia:

The Economist: Biotechnology

Medicine: Shooting down cancer
Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:04:00 -0000
A theory linking the scourge to stem cells may offer new ways of treating this most terrifying of diseasesEVERY age is afraid of plagues. For the most part, such plagues have been infections. The rich world, though, has brought infectious disease under control and, AIDS aside, the memory dims with every generation. Instead, the fear of disease has transferred itself to cancer. How to prevent it, and how to treat it if prevention has failed, fills the health pages of the newspapers. How this or that celebrity won or lost his or her battle with it seems to fill much of the rest.The military metaphor is not confined to newspapers. It is 37 years since Richard Nixon, then America’s president, declared war on the disease. During that time, the prognosis for cancer patients has got a lot better. Scientists have refined old therapies and found new ones. Moreover, governments have waged a relentless public-health campaign against the biggest cause of cancer—the smoking of tobacco. The war, however, has never looked close to being won. Scan the horizon and there is no sign of a cure. ...
Cancer stem cells: The root of all evil?
Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:04:00 -0000
Cancer may be caused by stem cells gone bad. If that proves to be correct, it should revolutionise treatmentMUCH of medical research is a hard slog for small reward. But, just occasionally, a finding revolutionises the field and cracks open a whole range of diseases. The discovery in the 19th century that many illnesses are caused by bacteria was one such. The unravelling of Mendelian genetics was another. It now seems likely that medical science is on the brink of a finding of equal significance. The underlying biology of that scourge of modern humanity, cancer, looks as though it is about to yield its main secret. If it does, it is possible that the headline-writer’s cliche, “a cure for cancer”, will come true over the years, just as the antibiotics that followed from the discovery of bacteria swept away previously lethal infectious diseases. The discovery—or, rather, the hypothesis that is now being tested—is that cancers grow from stem cells in the way that healthy organs do. A stem cell is one that, when it divides, produces two unequal daughters. One remains a stem cell while the other multiplies into the sorts of cells required by its organ. This matters for cancer because, at the moment, all the cells of a tumour are seen as more or less equivalent. Therapies designed to kill them do not distinguish between them. Success is defined as eliminating as many of them as possible, so those therapies have been refined to do just that. However, if all that the therapies are doing is killing the descendants of the non-stem-cell daughters, the problem has not been eliminated. Instead of attacking the many, you have to attack the few. That means aiming at the stem cells themselves. ...
Pharmaceuticals: Convergence or conflict?
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:35:36 -0000
Drug giants’ recent attempts to buy big biotech firms have provoked a backlashDALLIANCES between conventional pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology firms are nothing new. Big Pharma, eager to refill its emptying drug pipelines, has in recent years looked hopefully to biotech’s upstarts. The drugs giants have pursued all sorts of tie-ups, from alliances to licensing deals to outright purchases of a few smallish companies. But mindful of the sharp cultural differences between the two sorts of firms, they have generally avoided big acquisitions.Until now, that is. In recent weeks Roche, a Swiss pharmaceuticals giant, has made a surprise $44 billion bid for the 44% of Genentech, the world’s biggest biotech firm by stockmarket value, that it does not already own; and Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), an American drugs company, has offered $4.5 billion for the 83% of ImClone, an American biotech firm, that it does not already control. These attempts came on the heels of earlier deals in which AstraZeneca, a British drugs giant, bought MedImmune for $15.6 billion, and Takeda of Japan paid $8.8 billion for Millennium. ...

 

Subscribe to Biotechnology_and_Pharmaceuticals RSS feed

A-consult aps - Facilitating the registration of pharmaceuticals, natural remedies, and regulatory advice in cosmetic and food industries. Includes IBM AS/400 server solutions, offered from Copenhagen, Denmark.

Axiom Resources - Specializing in marketing, human resource, and software consulting for Life Science start-up companies.
Meta Description: [ Axiom Resources is a consultantcy and search firm specializing in cutting edge Life Science Jobs. ]

Beocarta Ltd - Consultants specializing in detailed metabolic analysis. Includes downloadable publications, news, global contacts for Japan, USA and Glasgow, UK.
Meta Description: [ beocarta ltd is a world leading independent company specialising in detailed metabolic analysis. ]

Bio-Strategy Ltd. - Offers strategic business advisory services and supplies to biological sciences, technology and chemicals companies. Includes service range, case studies, profiles and contacts in Auckland, New Zealand.

BioApproaches South West - Company providing information and professional development and training among the biotech sector, in the southwestern counties of England.
Meta Description: [ BioApproaches South West has been launched to support the professional and business development of the biotechnology sector in the South West of England. ]

BioForesight - Facilitates Strategic Alliances for Proteomics Therapeutic Antibody Companies

BioIdeas - Technical expertise and consulting services on new and emerging biotechnologies, therapeutic targets, agents, and product pipelines for both the biotech and pharmaceutical industries.

Biologics Consulting Group, LLC. - Offers regulatory advice for manufacturers of vaccines, bacterial and viral products, gene and cell therapies, monoclonal antibodies and immunoglobulins. Includes regulatory library, related links, list of services, staff, with worldwide contacts and base in Alexandria, Virginia.  
Meta Description: [ Biologics Consulting Group, Inc. provides regulatory and product development advice to manufacturers of products regulated by CBER and CDER of the FDA. Our staff consists of experts in regulatory affairs product manufacturing and testing pharm/tox statistics and clinical trial design/evaluation. ]

BioMed Capital Group Ltd. - A strategic and business advisory firm providing services in Bio-technological strategy development, divestitures, distribution and marketing agreements, and capital formation.

Biotechnology Consulting Group - Consulting firm with deep expertise in the field of biotechnology.
Meta Description: [ Biotechnology Consulting Group is a consulting firm with leading expertise in the emerging field of biotechnology. Biotechnology Consulting Group is based in Palo Alto, California with offices in Europe and Asia. ]

Biotechnology Solutions - Consultants for biopharmaceutical research and development
Meta Description: [ Biotechnology Solutions, Biotechnology consulting for biopharmaceutical research and development. ]

Campbell Alliance - A management consulting company providing services to pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Areas of expertise include brand management, business and clinical development, managed care, and sales.
Meta Description: [ Campbell Alliance is a specialized management consulting firm focusing on the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. ]

Caplix Partners - Business planning strategy consultants specializing in valuations, CEO coaching, acquisitions, financial analysis and strategy development for emerging technology for midmarket medical device and biotech companies.
Meta Description: [ Business planning strategy consultants specializing in valuations, CEO coaching, acquisitions, financial analysis and strategy development. ]

Cognigen Corporation Online - Research and consulting company providing services to the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare organizations.

Discovery-Insight BioPharmaceutical Consulting - Helps clients, including multinational pharmas, bio-pharmaceutical and -technology companies, entrepreneurs, and the life science investment community, manage risk in all apsects of drug discovery and development, from concept through Phase II proof-of-principle.

Don Hill and Associates - Offer hands-on experience in interpreting and applying cGMPs and regulatory requirements to the fields of pharmaceutical products, vaccines, cellular and gene therapy and traditional small molecule drugs. Contacts by email or phoning Maryland.

Drug Safety Evaluation Consulting, Inc. - Drug discovery and development consulting services with expertise in bioanalytical chemistry, pharmacokinetics, toxicokinetics, metabolism, and delivery.

Eidetics - Strategic research and consulting for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies.

500 Endpoint Drug Development Consulting - Providing pharmaceutical and biomedical firms with advice on the clinical development of medicines.

500 Farago Life Science - Overview of the industry, and profile of consultant, offering advice to biotech and medtech sectors, on licensing, investment strategy, executive search, process and knowledge management. Operates globally from Zug, Switzerland.

Haberman Associates - Assisting companies with identification and adoption of genomics and proteomics technology to expedite drug discovery and development.
Meta Description: [ Management consulting in science and technology strategy for life science companies. We focus on effective R&D, business development, and partnering. ]

404 Independent Biotech Consulting Services - Network of experienced scientists and consultants providing advice to clients investing in the biotech, life science, and pharmaceutical industries, as well as analysis of gene therapy and bioinformatics projects for industrial clients.
Meta Description: [ Our biotech consultants offer independent investment advice to the biotech investor and venture capitalist in addition to providing consulting services for the biotechnology & pharmaceutical industry. ]

Innovative Bio Biz - Offers patented technologies for licensing. Includes portfolio. Located in Hong Kong.
Meta Description: [ innovativeBio.Biz is a solution provider for the biotech industry. We offer patented technologies for licensing. Our technology portfolio includes: medical diagnostics, PCR, spectrometry, encapsulation, drug delivery ]

Integra BioScience Consulting, Inc. - Scientific, management and financial consultants to the biotechnology and biopharmaceutical industries.

Joklik and Associates, LLC - Specialty in the design of training solutions, organizational strategies and work processes in science and compliance industries from Severna Park, Maryland.

500 Madison Keats - Investment banking services for select clientele from the life sciences industry. Specializing in strategic planning, licensing, MA, private placement, and business valuation services.
Meta Description: [ Madison Keats provides strategy consulting and investment banking services for a select clientele drawn solely from the life sciences industry. ]

500 MG Pappas and Company Biotechnology Consultants - Specialists in grantsmanship and liaisons between biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms and federal agencies. Includes information on experience, services, books and clients.
Meta Description: [ Mike Michael Pappas, mgpbiotech, microtransponders, biotech books, Michael Pappas, biotechnology, biotechnology consultant, links biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms with SRIR or STTR government grant officials at the NIH DoD NIST FBI and DEA and providing grant writing services.. ]

Mulligan BioCapital AG - Flash presentation from investment consultants offering a portfolio, strategy, implementation guidelines, and news. Based in Hamburg, Germany.
Meta Description: [ Mulligan BioCapital AG is an investment firm dedicated to the life sciences with a specific Focus on biotechnology with health care applications. We invest in North American and European biotechnology ventures, that promise to transform the healthcare industry as we know it today. ]

Pacific Biodevelopment, LLC - Pacific BioDevelopment, LLC (PBD) provides consulting services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

Pharmaceutical Medicine Consultants - Provides information, links, and resources on pharmaceutical medicine, including qualified consultants, continuing medical education, and clinical investigator training programs.
Meta Description: [ The leading site for the advancement of Pharmaceutical Medicine. Find a qualified consultant in Pharmaceutical Medicine. Find information on continuing medical education, and Clinical Investigator training programs. ]

Pharmaceutical Regulatory Services - Provides regulatory support of various aspects of drug development, including clinical trials, marketed products, generics, OTC products, medical devices, as well as regulatory activities related to mergers and acquisitions.
Meta Description: [ Pharmaceutical Regulatory Services, Inc. specializes in providing expert regulatory support of all phases of global drug development, with special emphasis on the emerging markets of Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Central and Eastern Europe. ]

PharmaVentures Ltd - A healthcare consultancy assisting pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in market and technology evaluation, product portfolio assessment and strategic business development issues.
Meta Description: [ Pharmaceutical strategic business consultancy involved in partnering, licensing, acquisitions, divestments and new business start-ups. We assist in due diligence and write expert reports for investors. We are experts in business intelligence and markets ]

PharmSupport-Peer Productions, Inc. - Consultation and training services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, with expertise in small-scale consulting, writing, and training projects, as well as large-scale, full-service Investigational New Drug and New Drug Applications.
Meta Description: [ PharmSupport offers consultation and training services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, with expertise in medical, clinical, writing, project management, and other services ]

Seraphim Life Sciences Consulting LLC. - Offers regulatory, operations, due diligence, advisory and corporate development services to drug, biopharmaceutical and medical device companies and investors. European contacts, with headquarters in Vienna, Virginia.
Meta Description: [ Seraphim Life Sciences Consulting LLC ]

Swift Water Group - Management consultants to the pharmaceutical industry.

T and D Technology - Specialty in biosensors, chemical sensors and other analytical devices using of enzymes or whole cells, and polymer synthesis. Includes brokerage, technology, client examples, consultancy areas, and details of firm in Wakefield, UK.

The Bruckner Group, Inc. - Strategic management consulting organization providing services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries.

The Carlock Group - Complete project management, strategic consulting, and laboratory automation services for the life sciences industry for over 25 years.

Vision Biotechnology Consulting - Specialists in drug, device, and diagnostic product development, clinical trials, and manufacturing.

Wardell Associates International LLC - Consultants to the pharmaceutical and biotech industries on drug development and business strategy, product approval, and market support.
Meta Description: [ Wardell Associates International consults to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical-device industries on business strategy, product development, approval, and market support. WAI provides a complete range of integrated solutions for the development process for drugs and devices – from dis... ]