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New, independent kidney health technology company will combine expertise from two industry leaders to drive care transformation DUBLIN and DENVER, April 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT) and DaVita Inc. (NYSE: DVA) today announced the launch of Mozarc Medical—an independent new company committed to reshaping kidney health and driving patient-centered technology solutions. "Mozarc Medical's focus will be on meaningful and innovative kidney health technologies that improve the overall patient experience and increase access to care globally," said Ven Manda, CEO of Mozarc Medical. "At a time when patient preferences are evolving and in-home kidney care is on the rise, Mozarc Medical is uniquely positioned to better serve patients with kidney disease around the world." Central…

Support to include dedicated educational website, science advisory panel, patient video series and strategic alliance across sleep patient advocacy organizations Research shows that sleep disorders are associated with increased risks of cardiovascular comorbidities, including those with narcolepsy being two- to three-times more likely to have a stroke or heart attack than people without narcolepsy DUBLIN, March 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (Nasdaq: JAZZ) today announced an expansion of its support of the American Heart Association (Association) to provide the sleep disorder community an in-depth understanding of the cardiovascular risks associated with these debilitating disorders. Through this initiative, the Association aims to help people living with sleep disorde…

Basildon, UK,  27 March 2023 - Pharmanovia, a global pharmaceutical company that revitalises, extends and expands the lifecycle of established medicines, has today announced that it has expanded its exclusive licence and supply agreement with Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AQST) for its patented diazepam buccal film formulation to cover rest of the world, excluding US, Canada and China. Aquestive Therapeutics has been granted tentative approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)1, for its diazepam buccal film for the acute treatment of intermittent, stereotypic episodes of frequent seizure activity (i.e., seizure clusters, acute repetitive seizures) that are distinct from a patient’s usual seizure pattern in patients with epilepsy 12 years of age and older. In addition to…

Program Drives Digital and Omnichannel Engagement for Medical Science Liaison Teams & Medical Conferences MORRISVILLE, N.C., March 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Syneos Health® (Nasdaq: SYNH), a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization, today announced the launch of Medical Affairs Digital Amplifier, a program designed to drive smarter and more effective scientific exchange. This integrated program seeks to ensure customers, and the clinicians they serve, have access to the latest education to optimize patient outcomes. The development of this unique digital asset underscores Syneos Health’s continued focus on Medical Affairs, an increasingly critical component of successful clinical development. Fueled by the Company’s advanced digital engagement capabilities an…

WALTHAM, Mass. & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), will accelerate advanced cell therapies for difficult to treat conditions, including cancer, rare diseases, and other illnesses, from a newly opened cGMP manufacturing facility adjacent to UCSF Medical Center’s Mission Bay campus. The partnership between Thermo Fisher and UCSF, first announced in 2021, has the potential to demonstrate that having scientists, clinicians, and patients closer to a manufacturing site may expedite the development of breakthrough treatments. UCSF’s initial focus at the facility will be on treatments for glioblastoma, multiple myeloma, and other cancers using updated approache…

GRANT FROM THE BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION SUPPORTS EVOTEC’S EFFORTS TO DISCOVER AND DEVELOP DRUG CANDIDATES FOR A UNIVERSAL, SHORTER, SAFER AND SIMPLER TUBERCULOSIS DRUG REGIMEN AS ONE OF ITS PROGRAMMES CONTRIBUTING TO THE UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 3 “WORLD TUBERCULOSIS DAY”, 24 MARCH RAISES PUBLIC AWARENESS ABOUT DEVASTATING HEALTH, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE TUBERCULOSIS EPIDEMIC Hamburg, Germany, 24 March 2023:Evotec SE (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EVT, MDAX/TecDAX, ISIN: DE0005664809; NASDAQ: EVO) announced today that the Company has received a US$ 6.6 m grant from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for drug discovery in tuberculosis (“TB”). The grant is the second award from the foundation to Evotec supporting TB drug discovery, and allows the Company…

– Funding Will Reach Under-Resourced Communities Impacted by the HIV Epidemic as Part of Gilead’s Zeroing In™: Ending the HIV Epidemic Grant Program – FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) today announced it is providing a total of $3 million in grant funding to eight organizations to provide services to communities disproportionately impacted by HIV in rural areas in the United States. My Brother’s Keeper, based in Ridgeland, Mississippi, will provide technical assistance and capacity building to the organizations funded through this initiative. These grants are part of Gilead’s ongoing Zeroing In™ program to help end the HIV epidemic by supporting organizations working to improve the overall health and wellness of communities most impacted by the H…

Roche and Lilly will collaborate on the development of Roche Diagnostics’ Elecsys Amyloid Plasma Panel The Elecsys Amyloid Plasma Panel has demonstrated clinical performance and is currently undergoing additional investigation to ensure clinical validation Once approved, could help healthcare professionals to streamline the journey to diagnosis for more patients Basel, 22 March, 2023 - Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that it has entered into a collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company to support the development of Roche’s Elecsys® Amyloid Plasma Panel (EAPP). The EAPP is an innovative blood test that aims to facilitate the earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Today, barriers to early and accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer’s exist across the globe with up to 75% of peo…

A series of new measures will be introduced by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) with support from partners to make it faster and easier to gain approval and to run clinical trials in the UK. These changes represent the biggest overhaul in UK clinical trials regulation in over 20 years and will help to make the UK one of the best countries in the world to conduct clinical research for patients and researchers. Under the new framework, clinical trials application processes in UK will be more proportionate, streamlined and flexible without compromising on safety, helping to cement the UK as an attractive destination for trials, including global “multi-site” trials. For example, the integration of the regulatory and ethics reviews of clinical trial applications, w…

Collaboration Leverages AI-ready Technology to Speed Asset Development and Optimize Performance MORRISVILLE, N.C., March 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Syneos Health® (Nasdaq:SYNH), a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization, today announced a strategic multi-year agreement with Microsoft. Utilizing Microsoft Azure services, Syneos Health has developed an advanced analytics platform that enables agile deployment of machine learning (ML) supporting the analysis, design and execution of clinical trials and commercial programs worldwide. The multi-year agreement includes collaboration with Microsoft Research and leverages developments from OpenAI. Through this collaboration, Syneos Health will deliver technology and data solutions with Microsoft that accelerate clinical…

Sanofi cuts U.S. list price of Lantus®, its most-prescribed insulin, by 78% and caps out-of-pocket Lantus costs at $35 for all patients with commercial insurance Paris, March 16, 2023. Sanofi announces that it will cut the list price of Lantus (insulin glargine injection) 100 Units/mL, its most widely prescribed insulin in the U.S., by 78 percent. The company also will establish a $35 cap on out-of-pocket costs for Lantus for all patients with commercial insurance, underscoring its longstanding commitment to offer affordable access to medicines. These moves, which go into effect January 1, 2024, will come in addition to decisions taken in June 2022 to lower diabetes medicines costs: the launch of an unbranded Lantus biologic at -60% versus Lantus list price, and a cap on out-of-pocket cost…

- Commitments demonstrate leadership in advancing health equity and workforce representation to better serve patients and communities - $10 million in 2023 grant funding to 17 U.S. organizations focused on addressing social determinants of health - Expanding aspirational workforce representation goals for those in senior leadership roles PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) today announced meaningful progress toward its global inclusion & diversity goals and health equity commitments, meeting and exceeding some goals ahead of schedule. In 2020, Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) and the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, an independent charitable organization, each committed $150 million over five years, totaling $300 million to address health equity efforts by 2…

$250,000 top award goes to Neel Moudgal in the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors TARRYTOWN, N.Y. and WASHINGTON, D.C., March 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) and Society for Science (the Society) announced that Neel Moudgal, 17, of Saline, Mich., won the top $250,000 award in the 2023 Regeneron Science Talent Search, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors. The competition, now in its 82nd year, celebrates and rewards young scientists focused on a wide range of scientific topics. This year, those topics include everything from cancer research to climate change to the space race and more. Forty finalists, including Neel, were honored during…

Pfizer to acquire Seagen for $229 per Seagen share in cash, for a total enterprise value of approximately $43 billion Proposed combination enhances Pfizer’s position as a leading company in Oncology Seagen’s medicines, late-stage development programs and pioneering expertise in Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs) strongly complement Pfizer’s Oncology portfolio Seagen expected to contribute more than $10 billion in risk-adjusted revenues in 2030 Pfizer and Seagen to hold analyst and investor call at 8 a.m. EDT today NEW YORK & BOTHELL, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and Seagen Inc. (Nasdaq: SGEN) today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Pfizer will acquire Seagen, a global biotechnology company that discovers, develops and com…

Sanofi to acquire Provention Bio, adding to portfolio TZIELD, the first disease-modifying treatment for the delay of Stage 3 type 1 diabetes (T1D) Paris and Red Bank, N.J. March 13, 2023 Sanofi and Provention Bio, Inc., a U.S.-based, publicly traded biopharmaceutical company focused on intercepting and preventing immune-mediated diseases including type 1 diabetes (T1D), have entered into an agreement under which Sanofi has agreed to acquire Provention Bio, Inc., for $25.00 per share in cash, representing an equity value of approximately $2.9 billion. The transaction adds an innovative, fully owned, first-in-class therapy in type 1 diabetes to Sanofi’s core asset portfolio in General Medicines and further drives its strategic shift toward products with a differentiated profile. TZIELD (tepl…

BALLERUP, DENMARK and DUBLIN, IRELAND — 10 March, 2023 — LEO Pharma, a global leader in medical dermatology, and ICON plc (NASDAQ: ICLR) today announced a strategic partnership that will enable LEO Pharma to scale clinical trial execution that is patient-centric and cost effective, and which will support the company’s overall ambition of building one of the most effective and efficient clinical portfolio execution organisations in the industry. The mission of the partnership is to improve the lives of dermatology patients with access to innovative clinical trials and the launch of new medicines. The partnership will operate under the acronym of PACE, reflecting the requirement to move quickly to address today’s clinical development challenges. It also represents LEO Pharma and ICON’s share…

The Thermo Scientific iCAP RQplus ICP-MS Analyzer and the Thermo Scientific iSC-65 Autosampler Enable Easy, Accurate Analysis of High Matrix Samples Thermo Fisher Scientific has introducedthe Thermo Scientific iCAP RQplus ICP-MS Analyzer, a new trace elemental analyzer that simplifies everyday analyses in environmental, food, pharmaceutical and industrial testing laboratories. The company also introduced the Thermo Scientific iSC-65 Autosampler to improve productivity for the Thermo Scientific iCAP Qnova Series ICP-MS analyzer and the Thermo Scientific iCAP PRO Series ICP-OES. The new Thermo Scientific iCAP RQplus ICP-MS Analyzer (left) provides the operational simplicity and stability that laboratories require for ongoing daily analysis of trace elements at low concentrations in a wide ra…

Bagsværd, Denmark, 7 March 2023 – Novo Nordisk today announced the following changes in Executive Management. Monique Carter, executive vice president (EVP), Global People & Organisation, has decided to leave Novo Nordisk to pursue an external opportunity, allowing her to be closer to her family in the UK. Monique Carter joined Novo Nordisk in 2018 as senior vice president (SVP) for People & Organisation, and in 2019 she was promoted to EVP, Global People & Organisation. Tania Sabroe is promoted to EVP, Global People & Organisation, and will join Executive Management with immediate effect, succeeding Monique Carter. Tania Sabroe joined Novo Nordisk in August 2007 and comes from a position as SVP in Global People & Organisation. Previous to that she has held various posi…

Basel, Switzerland, March 7, 2023 — A first-of-its-kind collaboration in the consumer health industry is developing a platform aimed at reducing or replacing animal testing using “organ-on-chip” (OoC) technology and interactive computational software. The pilot project, supported by esqLABS, Dynamic42, Placenta Lab of Jena University Hospital, and Bayer’s Consumer Health Division aims to generate clinically relevant data, a key step in evaluating new drug candidates in preclinical research. The one-year pilot will focus on evaluating whether small molecules can cross the blood-placenta-barrier in pregnant women, an understudied population due to challenges in conducting clinical research. The platform will consist of a microphysiological system (MPS, so called “organ-on-chip”) re…

That’s My Word™ campaign issues national call to action for earlier diagnosis and treatment to address the disproportionate impact of multiple myeloma among at-risk communities HORSHAM, P.A., March 2, 2023 – The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced today the launch of That’s My Word™ to raise awareness of and help to drive better health outcomes for multiple myeloma among at-risk populations. A national campaign bringing together trusted voices among Black communities, including those at risk of multiple myeloma, care partners, healthcare professionals, advocacy groups and award-winning radio host and comedian D.L. Hughley, That’s My Word™ aims to be a source of both information and hope by sharing resources specifically for Black patients and their care par…