Across the pharmaceutical industry, forging collaborations are a key tool to bringing new medications through the clinic and to market. This week, multiple companies have partnered in attempts to bring forth new therapies. BioSpace took a look at some of these announcements.
Johnson & Johnson said on June 10 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration extended the shelf life of the company’s single-shot Covid-19 vaccine from three months to four-and-a-half months, as millions of unused doses nationwide near expiration.
Med Ad News caught up with David Ormesher, CEO of closerlook, and Ross Toohey, chief commercialization officer of Fishawack Health, to talk about Fishawack’s acquisition of closerlook, what made the deal so attractive on both ends, and what the acquisition promises for clients.
Ashfield Advisory, an ecosystem of healthcare advisory and consulting businesses and part of UDG Healthcare plc., announced two senior leadership appointments.
In a $7 billion transaction, San Francisco-based Datavant is merging with data network company Ciox Health to create the nation’s largest “neutral and secure health data ecosystem.”
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved expanded use of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s Trikafta to treat cystic fibrosis in children aged 6 to 11 years old, making the cocktail therapy the first approved treatment for CF in that age group.
Leading DevOps platform Copado announced automated tools for configuration, deployment and integration of Veeva CRM, which will help customers drive digital transformation with speed, quality and value.
Merck & Co. Inc. said on June 9 the U.S. government agreed to pay about $1.2 billion for 1.7 million courses of the company’s experimental Covid-19 treatment, if the oral antiviral drug molnupiravir is proven to work in an ongoing large trial and authorized by U.S. regulators.
Lifebit Biotech Ltd. announced the beginning of a long-term partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim to utilize Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the detection and early reporting of global disease outbreaks using real-world data harvested from scientific publications and other open sources.
Medable Inc., a leading software platform for patient-centered drug development, announced a partnership with Aural Analytics in the company’s federally funded project to assess remote data capture and digital biomarkers in cancer patients.