Stephanie Sutton

AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, Merck Serono, and Pfizer have pledged support of more than £14 million ($23 million) to a translational drug development project being run by the UK's Medical Research Council and the University of Dundee.

The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations has formally adopted a memorandum of understanding with key partners for a harmonized, European system for medicines verification.

The pricetag of pharmaceuticals are coming under increasing scrutiny in today’s age of cost constraints.

The UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has launched a new anticounterfeiting strategy with the aim of curbing the occurrence of falsified medicines in the county's supply chain.

A technical forum featuring Tim Freeman of Freeman Technology and Carl Levoguer of Malvern Instruments.

GlaxoSmithKline has partnered with the US?s Yale University to design a potential new class of medicines that could be beneficial in areas such as oncology, inflammation and infection.

In the last five years, the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has seized counterfeit drugs worth more than £25 million ($41 million), but the war isn’t over yet.

GlaxoSmithKline has reached an agreement to divest certain over-the-counter brands in selected territories to South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare Holdings for approximately $264.7 million.

Merck KGaA has revealed further details about its previously announced restructuring program, including plans to eliminate approximately 580 jobs.

The European Commission is offering a EUR 2-million ($2.64 million) inducement prize to encourage innovation in the area of cold-chain logistics and vaccine stability.

The past month has seen a lot of news about the pharmaceutical industry’s positive influence in developing countries.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published the final reflection paper concerning ethical and good clinical practice (GCP) aspects of clinical trials.

For some time, the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) has been working on developing a European verification system to help combat falsified medicines.

Illumina has sent a fourth letter to shareholders urging them to reject Roche's offer of $51 per share, which Illumina claims is opportunistic and undervaluing the company.

In February, I wrote that Roche could be in for a lengthy battle if it wants to acquire the gene-sequencing specialist Illumina.

As part of an ongoing collaboration into tabletting science, I Holland and the UK's University of Nottingham have launched a two-year programme to investigate the cause of tabletting sticking.

An initiative in the UK will pump £75 million ($120.2 million) into translational science, with the aim of transforming biological understanding into clinical impacts that will benefit patients and the UK economy.

Experts discuss the best practices for developing a QbD-based lyophilization process.

Medicine regulatory agencies in the EU, US and Australia have been successfully collaborating for some time now with regards to GMP inspections of API manufacturers, but now they are seeking to further expand this international effort by looking to include additional partners.

A US court has denied AstraZeneca's request for a preliminary injunction against the FDA.

The 2009 swine flu pandemic (and panic) has been forgotten by most, but regulators, global health organisations and pharmaceutical companies are continuing post-pandemic activities.

The European Medicines Agency has released guidance that outlines a European-wide approach for dealing with transparency and access to information included in marketing authorization applications.

The European Medicines Agency has recommended that manufacturing processes for two anticancer medicines be transferred from Ben Venue Laboratories to alternative facilities. The decision follows GMP shortcomings identified at the US-based manufacturer in late 2011, and marks the end of the EMA's review of all fourteen centrally authorized medicines that were produced at the site.

GlaxoSmithKline this week gave the UK government and several trade organisations reason to celebrate after announcing that it will build a new manufacturing facility in the country.

The European Medicines Agency has launched a pilot program for submitting centralized marketing authorization applications electronically.

GlaxoSmithKline is launching a new program that will create apprenticeships in several areas including manufacturing and R&D at the company's United Kingdom sites.

GlaxoSmithKline and Daiichi Sankyo have formed a joint venture that they claim will create the biggest vaccines company in Japan. The joint venture will seek to improve access to vaccinations in the Asian nation as well as introduce new vaccines.

Medicine regulatory agencies in the EU, US and Australia have been successfully collaborating for some time now in the area of GMP inspections of API manufacturers.

The pharma industry has reached the long-dreaded patent cliff, but for copycat products, business is booming.

Eli Lilly plans to invest EUR 330 million ($443.2 million) at its Kinsale location in Ireland to create a new biopharmaceutical commercialization and manufacturing facility.