• Sign In
  • Sign Out
  • My Account
Subscribe
  • BioWorld
  • BioWorld MedTech
  • BioWorld Asia
  • BioWorld Science
  • Data Snapshots
  • Special reports
Clarivate
  • Data Snapshots
  • BioWorld
  • BioWorld MedTech
  • Infographics: Dynamic digital data analysis
  • Special reports
  • Infographics: Dynamic digital data analysis
  • Trump administration impacts
  • Biopharma M&A scorecard
  • BioWorld 2024 review
  • BioWorld MedTech 2024 review
  • BioWorld Science 2024 review
  • Women's health
  • China's GLP-1 landscape
  • PFA re-energizes afib market
  • China CAR T
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Israel
  • Rise of obesity
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Biosimilars
  • Aging
  • IVDs on the rise
  • Coronavirus
  • Artificial intelligence

BioWorld. Link to homepage.

Clarivate
  • BioWorld
  • BioWorld MedTech
  • BioWorld Asia
  • BioWorld Science
  • Data Snapshots
    • BioWorld
    • BioWorld MedTech
    • Infographics: Dynamic digital data analysis
  • Special reports
    • Infographics: Dynamic digital data analysis
    • Trump administration impacts
    • Biopharma M&A scorecard
    • BioWorld 2024 review
    • BioWorld MedTech 2024 review
    • BioWorld Science 2024 review
    • Women's health
    • China's GLP-1 landscape
    • PFA re-energizes afib market
    • China CAR T
    • Alzheimer's disease
    • Israel
    • Rise of obesity
    • Radiopharmaceuticals
    • Biosimilars
    • Aging
    • IVDs on the rise
    • Coronavirus
    • Artificial intelligence

BioWorld. Link to homepage.

  • Sign In
  • Sign Out
  • My Account
Subscribe
Home » Newsletters » BioWorld

BioWorld

Dec. 21, 2011

View Archived Issues

Amgen, Watson to Hit the Biosimilar Road Together

Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. has signed on to ride shotgun as Amgen Inc. prepares to hit the biosimilar road. Read More

ImmunoGen Signs $220M TAP Deal with Eli Lilly

ImmunoGen Inc. licensed its maytansinoid targeted antibody payload (TAP) technology to Eli Lilly and Co., for the development of a limited number of antibody-drug conjugates for cancer. Lilly will pay $20 million up front and up to $200 million in milestone payments. ImmunoGen will also receive compensation for any research and manufacturing services it may provide to Lilly. Read More

Scil Technology to Bank $239M+ In Osteoarthritis Deal with Sanofi

LONDON – Scil Technology GmbH has signed up Sanofi SA as commercialization partner for its protein therapy for osteoarthritis in a €180 million (US$235.9 million) plus royalties deal that will see the French pharma company take on all responsibility for further development of the program. Read More

NHGRI Seeks to Capitalize on Genome Sequencing Program

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) recently revealed an ambitious effort to capitalize on its flagship genome sequencing program by pumping $416 million into four areas over four years to find the causes of rare inherited diseases and to accelerate the use of genome sequence information in the medical care of patients. Read More

Clinuvel Filing for Scenesse in EU on Phase III Data in EPP

Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals Ltd. plans to complete a European regulatory filing for its lead drug Scenesse (afamelanotide) in the coming weeks, following a Phase III clinical trial in patients with erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP), which met its primary endpoint. Read More

Stock Movers

Read More

Financings Roundup

• Provectus Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Knoxville, Tenn., and its five wholly owned subsidiaries – Provectus Biotech Inc., Provectus Devicetech Inc., Provectus Imaging Inc., Pure-ific Corp. and Xantech Pharmaceuticals Inc. – raised an undisclosed amount of money in an unregistered offering. Each unit sold consisted of the right to receive one share of common stock in up to all five subsidiaries and a warrant to purchase three-fourths of one share of the company's common stock. Read More

Clinic Roundup

• Dynavax Technologies Corp., of Berkeley, Calif., began a proof-of-mechanism trial of its lupus candidate, DV1179, triggering a $6 million milestone payment from London-based GlaxoSmithKline plc. GSK has the option to exclusively license the drug following completion of the trial. Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus will receive ascending doses of DV1179 by injection once a week for eight weeks, to evaluate safety and efficacy. Read More

Other News To Note

• Antares Pharma Inc., of Ewing, N.J., has licensed to Pfizer Inc.'s Consumer Healthcare Business Unit one of its drug delivery technologies to develop an undisclosed product on an exclusive basis for North America. New York-based Pfizer will assume full cost and responsibility for all clinical development, manufacturing and commercialization of the product in the licensed territory, which also includes certain nonexclusive territories outside of North America. Antares will receive undisclosed up-front payments, development milestones and sales-based milestones, as well as royalties on net sales for three years post-launch in the U.S. Read More

Popular Stories

  • Today's news in brief

    BioWorld
    BioWorld briefs for June 6, 2025.
  • Today's news in brief

    BioWorld MedTech
    BioWorld MedTech briefs for June 6, 2025.
  • News in brief

    BioWorld Asia
    BioWorld Asia briefs for June 3, 2025
  • Biotech deal illustration

    City hits the town with $1B-plus deal with Biogen

    BioWorld
    A development deal with Biogen Inc. could eventually bring City Therapeutics Inc. about $1 billion in milestone payments. It’s a step in the direction the company...
  • Cancer cell in the cross-hairs

    Pan-cancer proteome atlas reveals new biomarkers and targets

    BioWorld Science
    An international group of scientists has completed the first draft of The Pan-Cancer Proteome Atlas (TPCPA). The project is based on mass spectrometry of 22...
  • BioWorld
    • Today's news
    • Analysis and data insight
    • Clinical
    • Data Snapshots
    • Deals and M&A
    • Financings
    • Newco news
    • Opinion
    • Regulatory
    • Science
  • BioWorld MedTech
    • Today's news
    • Clinical
    • Data Snapshots
    • Deals and M&A
    • Financings
    • Newco news
    • Opinion
    • Regulatory
    • Science
  • BioWorld Asia
    • Today's news
    • Analysis and data insight
    • Australia
    • China
    • Clinical
    • Deals and M&A
    • Financings
    • Newco news
    • Regulatory
    • Science
  • BioWorld Science
    • Today's news
    • Biomarkers
    • Cancer
    • Conferences
    • Endocrine/Metabolic
    • Immune
    • Infection
    • Neurology/Psychiatric
    • Patents
  • More
    • About
    • Advertise with BioWorld
    • Archives
    • Article reprints and permissions
    • Contact us
    • Cookie policy
    • Copyright notice
    • Data methodology
    • Infographics: Dynamic digital data analysis
    • Podcasts
    • Privacy policy
    • Share your news with BioWorld
    • Staff
    • Terms of use
    • Topic alerts
Follow Us

Copyright ©2025. All Rights Reserved. Design, CMS, Hosting & Web Development :: ePublishing

BioWorld. Link to homepage.

Clarivate
  • BioWorld
  • BioWorld MedTech
  • BioWorld Asia
  • BioWorld Science
  • Data Snapshots
    • BioWorld
    • BioWorld MedTech
    • Infographics: Dynamic digital data analysis
  • Special reports
    • Infographics: Dynamic digital data analysis
    • Trump administration impacts
    • Biopharma M&A scorecard
    • BioWorld 2024 review
    • BioWorld MedTech 2024 review
    • BioWorld Science 2024 review
    • Women's health
    • China's GLP-1 landscape
    • PFA re-energizes afib market
    • China CAR T
    • Alzheimer's disease
    • Israel
    • Rise of obesity
    • Radiopharmaceuticals
    • Biosimilars
    • Aging
    • IVDs on the rise
    • Coronavirus
    • Artificial intelligence

BioWorld. Link to homepage.

  • Sign In
  • Sign Out
  • My Account
Subscribe