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CPRIT awards Bellicum $5.7 million to advance CaspaCIDe therapy for late stage cancer

Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the Company received notice of a $5.7 million company commercialization award from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas ("CPRIT"). Bellicum was the only company recommended for funding in this second round of the commercialization award program.

25 Mar 2011

Teleflex to distribute Perouse line of POLYSITE intravenous implantable infusion ports

Teleflex Incorporated, a global provider of medical technology products, announced a global distribution agreement with Perouse Medical under which Teleflex will distribute the Perouse line of POLYSITE® intravenous implantable infusion ports.

25 Mar 2011

Positive Phase 3 results from Tarsa's ORACAL study validates Unigene's oral peptide drug delivery technology

Unigene Laboratories, Inc. a leader in the design, delivery, manufacture and development of peptide-based therapeutics announced today that the statistically significant top-line results released by its licensee, Tarsa Therapeutics, validate its proprietary oral peptide drug delivery technology.

25 Mar 2011

P&G, Teva sign partnership agreement for consumer health care

The Procter & Gamble Company and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. today announced the signing of a master agreement to create a partnership in consumer health care by bringing together both companies' existing over-the-counter medicines and complementary capabilities to accelerate growth.

25 Mar 2011

Althea extends labeling, packaging of biological product services through Sherpa

Althea Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has extended its service offering to include labeling, packaging, storage and distribution of drug and biological products through its co-marketing partner, Sherpa Clinical Packaging.

25 Mar 2011

Stemedica begins allogeneic mesenchymal stem cell Phase I/II trial in patients with ischemic stroke

Stemedica Cell Technologies, Inc., a leader in adult allogeneic stem cell manufacturing, research and development, announced today that its specially formulated ischemic adult allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells have been successfully used to treat the first patient in an ischemic stroke study conducted at the University of California, San Diego.

25 Mar 2011

BrainStorm provides review of recent accomplishments for shareholders, investors

BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc., a leading developer of adult stem cell technologies and therapeutics, today provided a review of recent accomplishments for shareholders and investors.

25 Mar 2011

Opinions: Using taxes to reduce poverty; fighting TB; meeting global food demands

To improve living standards and create jobs," African governments "need to provide their citizens with better health care, better education, more infrastructure. How to pay for this - in a way that is both fair and efficient - is a question that all governments face," Mark Plant, deputy director of the IMF's African Department, writes in a BusinessDay opinion piece where he describes how increased tax revenues in several African countries have led to "in-roads into poverty reduction."

25 Mar 2011

Boehringer Ingelheim formally acquires Amgen's Fremont manufacturing site

Today Boehringer Ingelheim formally acquired Amgen's biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing facility in Fremont, California. This acquisition involves leasing buildings, acquiring physical equipment and assuming manufacturing processes done at the Fremont site.

25 Mar 2011

FDA clears MASEP Infini's gamma ray neurosurgery system

MASEP Infini, an innovator in global medical technology, today announced 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of its new Infini gamma ray neurosurgery system with patented Independent Beam Switch Control with Programmable Arcs, automated collimator exchange and three-dimensional patient positioning, and MASEP Infini's proven Rotary Focusing technology.

24 Mar 2011

ACT to be awarded broad patent protection in China for hESC-derived RPE cells

Advanced Cell Technology, Inc., a leader in the field of regenerative medicine, announced today that China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) has allowed the Company's patent application to provide broad intellectual property protection in China for the manufacturing and pharmaceutical preparations of retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).

24 Mar 2011

Ansell announces substantial price increase for NRL medical gloves

Following a continued increase of raw materials costs, Ansell Medical Solutions Europe, the regional branch of the world leader in hand protective solutions for healthcare professionals, has announced substantial price increases for its entire range of NRL medical gloves.

23 Mar 2011

Cilag, POZEN enter license agreement to develop and commercialize MT 400

POZEN Inc., a pharmaceutical company committed to transforming medicine that transforms lives, today announced that it has entered into a license agreement with Cilag GmbH International, a division of Johnson & Johnson, for the development and commercialization of MT 400 in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

23 Mar 2011

Winner Medical's spunlace non-woven fabric technology wins Circular Economy Project Award

Winner Medical Group Inc., a leading manufacturer of medical dressings, medical disposables and non-woven fabric made from 100% natural PurCotton products in China, proudly announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Winner Industries Co., Ltd., was the only medical device manufacturing company to win the Circular Economy Project Award for the year 2010.

23 Mar 2011

SGEN, Abbott enter collaboration agreement for ADC products

Seattle Genetics, Inc.today announced that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Abbott under which Abbott will pay an upfront fee of $8 million for rights to utilize Seattle Genetics' antibody-drug conjugate technology with antibodies to a single oncology target.

23 Mar 2011

SMR, RTU enter license agreement for RESCULA eye drops

Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Sucampo Manufacturing & Research AG, and R-Tech Ueno, Ltd., a pharmaceutical company founded in Japan in 1989, have entered into a license agreement for RESCULA eye drops, expanding Sucampo's rights beyond its previously agreed territory of the United States and Canada to all countries in Europe and the rest of the world except Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the People's Republic of China.

23 Mar 2011

Shire's Replagal and VPRIV data on Gaucher and Fabry patients presented at ACMG meeting

Shire plc, the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, presented new data for Replagal in patients with Fabry disease, and VPRIV in patients with type 1 Gaucher disease, at the 2011 American College of Medical Genetics' Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting, held in Vancouver, BC, from March 16-20, 2011.

22 Mar 2011

Menicon opens new contact lens R&D and manufacturing facility in Singapore

Menicon Singapore, a subsidiary of Menicon Co., Ltd., Japan's first and largest contact lens manufacturer, has opened its new R&D and manufacturing facility.

22 Mar 2011

Finesse launches new core modules for off-line data processing in fourth generation TruBio DV software

Finesse Solutions, LLC, a manufacturer of measurement and control solutions for life science process applications, has announced the official launch of two new core modules for off-line data processing in its fourth generation TruBio DV software. These modules are targeted at enabling bioprocessing specialists to manage data from third party equipment and process analyzers, and obtain automated electronic records of their batch.

21 Mar 2011

Feihe fourth quarter revenues increased 41.6% to $62.3 million

Feihe International, Inc., one of the leading producers and distributors of premium infant formula, milk powder and soybean, rice and walnut products in China, today announced unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2010.

21 Mar 2011

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CPRIT awards Bellicum $5.7 million to advance CaspaCIDe therapy for late stage cancer

Teleflex to distribute Perouse line of POLYSITE intravenous implantable infusion ports

Positive Phase 3 results from Tarsa's ORACAL study validates Unigene's oral peptide drug delivery technology

P&G, Teva sign partnership agreement for consumer health care

Althea extends labeling, packaging of biological product services through Sherpa

Stemedica begins allogeneic mesenchymal stem cell Phase I/II trial in patients with ischemic stroke

BrainStorm provides review of recent accomplishments for shareholders, investors

Opinions: Using taxes to reduce poverty; fighting TB; meeting global food demands

Boehringer Ingelheim formally acquires Amgen's Fremont manufacturing site

FDA clears MASEP Infini's gamma ray neurosurgery system

ACT to be awarded broad patent protection in China for hESC-derived RPE cells

Ansell announces substantial price increase for NRL medical gloves

Cilag, POZEN enter license agreement to develop and commercialize MT 400

Winner Medical's spunlace non-woven fabric technology wins Circular Economy Project Award

SGEN, Abbott enter collaboration agreement for ADC products

SMR, RTU enter license agreement for RESCULA eye drops

Shire's Replagal and VPRIV data on Gaucher and Fabry patients presented at ACMG meeting

Menicon opens new contact lens R&D and manufacturing facility in Singapore

Finesse launches new core modules for off-line data processing in fourth generation TruBio DV software

Feihe fourth quarter revenues increased 41.6% to $62.3 million

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