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New measures to minimise animal testing to be implemented in Europe

30 September 2021 | By Anna Begley (Drug Target Review)

The European Medicines Agency is promoting three principles – replace, reduce and refine – to reduce animal testing in medicine development.

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Radiochemistry and drug synthesis ‘in a flash’

12 June 2019 | By Professor Dr Jason P. Holland - University of Zurich

Conventional methods for radiolabelling proteins are time consuming and difficult to automate. In this article, Jason P. Holland discusses how combining photochemistry with radiochemistry enables development of radiolabelled proteins far more quickly and easily – literally in a flash of light.

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EMA’s building approval process in Amsterdam initiated

28 February 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

New permanent building to be completed by 15 November 2019...

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EMA discusses future Amsterdam premises

7 February 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

The EMA Management Board have met in an extraordinary session to discuss EMA’s future premises in Amsterdam...

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EMA to relocate to Amsterdam, the Netherlands

21 November 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

The EMA will relocate to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The Agency now has just over 16 months to prepare for the move and take up its operations in Amsterdam on 30 March 2019 at the latest...

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Could Milan be the new home for the EMA?

17 November 2017 | By Wayne Pines

Wayne Pines, President of Healthcare at APCO Worldwide in Washington DC and a former Associate Commissioner of the FDA believes Milan is a logical choice for the relocation of the EMA...

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Wellcome Trust gives Polyphor CHF 2.3 million for antibiotic development

9 February 2017 | By Niamh Marriott (Drug Target Review)

Polyphor has received a CHF 2.3 million award from the Wellcome Trust to advance the development of broad-spectrum, Gram-negative pre-clinical product candidates.

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New drug could prevent graft loss in pancreatic islet transplantation

5 December 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Editor

In a rodent model of islet transplantation, ARA 290 markedly reduced transplantation-induced inflammation, resulting in a marked increase in islet survival...

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ESCMID and ASM’s review need for new strategies and tactics to fight antimicrobial resistance

11 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer

The European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) have just closed a joint conference in Vienna, which aimed to help researchers accelerate the development of new antimicrobials and to shed light on the challenges associated with antimicrobial resistance.

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UK life sciences are stronger in the EU, says BioIndustry Association

16 March 2016 | By Steve Bates, BioIndustry Association (BIA) Chief Executive

Here, Steve Bates, Chief Executive of the BioIndustry Association (BIA), makes a case for the UK remaining in the EU from the perspective of the life sciences sector...

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FDA and EMA grants orphan drug designation to recAP for the treatment of hypophosphatasia

9 June 2015 | By Victoria White

AM‐Pharma has announced that the FDA and EMA have both granted orphan designation status to recAP for the treatment of hypophosphatasia...

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European CHMP adopts positive opinion for Gilead’s zydelig® (idelalisib) for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and follicular lymphoma

25 July 2014 | By Gilead

Gilead Sciences, Inc. announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has adopted a positive opinion on the company’s Marketing Authorization Application for Zydelig®...

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Sanofi reports positive Phase 3 results for Toujeo®

19 June 2014 | By Sanofi

Sanofi announced that, in a pooled analysis, investigational therapy Toujeo® (insulin glargine [rDNA origin] injection, 300 U/mL) consistently showed significantly fewer low blood sugar events (hypoglycemia)...

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Foreword: Enabling the development of new medicines

7 May 2014 | By Guido Rasi (Executive Director: European Medicines Agency)

Over the past few years, the landscape of medicines development has shifted. We have seen a decline in the research and development productivity of the pharmaceutical industry. Innovator drug developers have been confronted with the current pressure on healthcare budgets, as well as a wave of patent expiries for blockbuster…

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EMA and Australian regulator strengthen collaboration in the area of orphan medicines

7 April 2014 | By The European Medicines Agency

In a meeting at the European Medicines Agency on 4 April 2014, the EMA’s Executive Director, Prof. Guido Rasi, and the National Manager of the Australian Therapeutic Goods AdministrationExternal link icon, Prof. John Skerritt, announced that the two regulators have agreed to share the full assessment reports...

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