Lucerne (ots) - Following its nomination for an eight time in a row as Top Employer Switzerland, MSD (Merck Sharp & Dohme AG) is delighted to announce the introduction of a new gender-neutral parental leave policy to all its employees within ...
Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) - - Norgine to receive upfront payments, undisclosed milestone payments along with double-digit percentage royalties - Norgine retains full commercial rights to PLENVU® in all unlicensed countries Norgine B.V. (Norgine), a leading European specialist pharmaceutical company, today ...
Ra'anana, Israel (ots/PRNewswire) - SMART's G-EYE® 760R colonoscope, incorporating its G-EYE® Balloon Technology designed to increase the detection of cancerous polyps in colonoscopy, will become available by FUJIFILM Europe with its state-of-the-art ELUXEO system, as part of the newly formed strategic ...
Zürich (ots) - In 2019, Helsana Insurance Company Ltd recorded an outstanding result of CHF 436 million. This comprises a very strong investment performance and a solid underwriting result. Customer growth for 2020 once again clearly exceeded the prior year and the new corporate strategy was successfully launched at the start of 2020. In 2019, Helsana Insurance Company Ltd recorded an outstanding result of CHF 436 ...
Lucerne (ots) - World Cancer Day every 4th of February is a global uniting movement led by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). MSD (Merck Sharp & Dohme) is a proud sponsor of this initiative, joining the conversation to create a groundswell of awareness and action that will enable powerful ...
Lucerne (ots) - - Company will open a new location in Zurich, focused on accelerating research, data and commercialization of our medicines and vaccines - Lucerne will remain the center of MSD's presence in Switzerland MSD (Merck Sharp & Dohme AG) today announced that it will establish a new office in Zurich, Switzerland, aimed at accelerating the ...
Cambridge, England and Milpitas, California (ots/PRNewswire) - Abcam plc, a global innovator in life science reagents and tools, is today pleased to announce the asset purchase of the gene editing platform and oncology product portfolio of Applied StemCell, Inc. (ASC) for life science research and diagnostic ...
Prague (ots/PRNewswire) - Zentiva welcomed The Pharmaceutical Applied Research Center (The Parc) to their Prague headquarters to celebrate the first anniversary of The Parc Awards. The Parc is a unique research platform designed to prepare future generations of pharmaceutical scientists and engineers. Twenty-nine students are currently included in the program and an ...
Lucerne (ots) - - Swissmedic approval is based on a significant benefit in overall survival with pembrolizumab in combination with axitinib compared to sunitinib in the Phase III study KEYNOTE-426 - Pembrolizumab is the first PD-1 inhibitor that has ...
Reinach, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - World-leading belting supplier Habasit is launching its innovative Super HyCLEAN plastic modular belt range at IPPE 2020. Designed for poultry processing applications demanding the highest sanitation standards, the new belts' patented hygienic design significantly reduces ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - COMPASS Pathways, a mental health care company, announced today that it has been granted US Patent No 10,519,175, relating to methods of treating drug-resistant depression with a psilocybin formulation, by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The patent covers the use of COMPASS's ...
Lausanne (ots) - - Novadiscovery pioneers the use of in silico clinical trials to predict drug efficacy and optimize clinical development, an approach meeting the strong expectations from pharmaceutical companies for faster and more efficient development, and benefiting from increased endorsement from health ...
MONTREAL, CANADA and LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND (ots) - Knight Therapeutics Inc., (TSX: GUD) ("Knight") a pan-American (ex-USA) specialty pharmaceutical company and Debiopharm, a swiss-based, global biopharmaceutical company, today announced that they have entered into an exclusive agreement that grants Knight the rights to commercialize Trelstar® (triptorelin) in Canada. ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - Senzer's pharmaceutical respiratory device will be used in Europe's first and biggest national medical cannabis registry, Project TWENTY21, in which an expected 20,000 patients will be enrolled by the end of 2021 creating the largest body of evidence for the efficacy of medical cannabis. Drug Science, the leading independent scientific body on ...
Tokyo (ots/PRNewswire) - Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd. (TSE: 4151) President and CEO: Masashi Miyamoto, "Kyowa Kirin") today announces that its marketing authorisation application (MAA) for istradefylline (KW-6002) as an adjunctive treatment to levodopa-based regimens in adult patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) ...
Cambridge, England (ots/PRNewswire) - - Includes leading protein conjugation technologies and industry brands Lightning-Link® and CaptSure(TM) - Opportunity to combine Expedeon and Abcam's technologies to create new products to support research and diagnostic development Abcam plc, a global innovator in life ...
Munich (ots/PRNewswire) - · Results published in the European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy (https://academic.oup.com/ehjcvp/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ehjcvp/pvz070/5644339?redirectedFrom=fulltext), showed rates of thromboembolism similar to those observed in the ENGAGE AF-TIMI 48 ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - COMP360 (psilocybin) was well tolerated in healthy volunteers and results support further investigation of simultaneous 1:1 therapeutic administration design COMPASS Pathways, a mental health care company, has reported that its COMP360 (psilocybin) was well-tolerated when administered to ...
Aachen, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - Grünenthal announced today that Jan Adams, MD has been appointed Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) and Member of the Corporate Executive Board effective 1 January 2020. Since July 2019, Jan has already served as acting CSO, leading the strategic re-alignment of Grünenthal's R&D organisation. Jan brings over 15 years of experience in healthcare and the biopharmaceutical industry. He joined ...
Brussels (ots/PRNewswire) - - Phase II data demonstrate that rozanolixizumab was well tolerated by patients with primary ITP across all dose groups - Clinically relevant improvements in platelet count and decrease in immunoglobin G (IgG) levels were observed in all dose groups - Safety, tolerability and efficacy ...
APR Applied Pharma Research s.a.
Balerna, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - APR Applied Pharma Research sa ("APR"), the Swiss pharma company focused in niche and rare therapeutic areas, announces that the US Food and Drug Administration (the "FDA") has granted Orphan Drug Designation for its investigational drug code-named APR-TD011 for treatment of ...
ST. GALLEN, Switzerland (ots) - Innovative FORA 6 GTel Capability Provides 6 Tests with Single Device, SIM Direct-to-Telehealth Connectivity ForaCare Suisse AG announced the launch of its FORA 6 GTel multi-functional monitoring device with its new "Lab in the Pocket" technology (available on the GTel model and FORA 6 Series products). The innovative 6-in-1 monitoring technology provides seamless 3G/4G data transmission of ...
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse
Bern (ots) - Patient safety in intensive care units could be significantly improved if false alarms could be greatly reduced and critical complications such as epileptic seizures could be predicted. This is where the "ICU Cockpit" project of the National Research Programme "Big Data" (NRP 75) comes in: The large amounts of data from intensive care medicine will be used to develop procedures for early warning systems and ...
Rheinbreitbach (ots) - Jennewein Biotechnologie develops fermentative processes for manufacturing of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) cost efficiently in an industrial scale since 2005 to make these special sugars available for affordably priced infant formula and other uses in food. Jennewein Biotechnologie was the first commercial vendor of HMOs, and brought the ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - Senzer's pharmaceutical cannabinoid device has won another major design award, with the German Design Council commending the unique inhaler for having 'a clear modern design that perfectly combines ergonomics and functionality'. The award is the third design success for Senzer's Class IIa Medical Device, which is breath-activated and delivers ...
Zurich (ots) - The medication costs in Switzerland amounted to about CHF 7.6 billion in 2018. Since 2010, costs have risen by 46 percent, whereby half of this increase was attributable to immunosuppressants and cancer medication. Great savings potential is above all associated with the use of biosimilars. One of the other findings of this year's Helsana Drug Report is ...
Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - - Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare grants orphan drug designation for diseases that affect fewer than 50,000 patients in Japan, and for which significant unmet medical need exists - MET exon 14 (METex14) skipping alterations and MET amplifications are present in ...