PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 25, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ONCE), a fully integrated, commercial gene therapy company dedicated to challenging the inevitability of genetic disease, today announced that the Galien Foundation has awarded the prestigious 2019 Prix Galien USA Award…
Building a Site of Choice: Advice from the Field
What does a site need to do to trim its study start-up timeline from several weeks down to just a few days? Panelists from various site organizations shared their secrets to rapid start-up and other best practices at MAGI’s “Be…
CDSCO Invites Suggestions To Improve Sugam Portal
In order to promote digital India and ease of doing business, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has asked for suggestions from the stakeholders to improve Sugam portal for effective online processing of applications. CDSCO under its e-Governance initiative…
CDSCO Received approval to Increase ManPower
Meanwhile, the health ministry’s proposal to the department of expenditure seeking recruitment of manpower to form a vertical in the CDSCO has been approved. “We need human resource to set up laboratories, to test devices. The finance department is agreeable…
Single regulatory framework likely for all medical devices
All imported and locally-made medical devices will have to meet certain standards of quality and efficacy to enter the Indian market. The government has begun framing the rules and a draft notification to this effect is likely to be put…
FDA approves new Eli Lilly drug to ‘resolve’ migraine pain in two hours
FDA approves Eli Lilly’d new migraine drug Reyvow. Reyvow was proven to be “significantly” more effective than a placebo in resolving the pain and “most bothersome” migraine symptoms. Migraines are three times more common in women than in men and…
Still too little progress on antibiotic resistance, says O’Neill report update
The O’Neill report on antimicrobial resistance in 2016 generated headlines around the world warning that once-trivial infections may become death sentences without drastic action. Now, three years on, an update on progress has been published and concludes that there has…
UPS gets clearance to expand medical drone delivery service across US
A subsidiary of UPS has gained regulatory clearance allowing it to expand a medical drone delivery service to support hospitals across the US. UPS Flight Forward said earlier this month it has received the US government certification to operate…
Top 20 Pharma Companies by Market Cap in Q1 2019
GlobalData recently published their top 20 global pharma companies categorized by market capitalization in the first quarter of 2019. One company to break the top 20 was Takeda Pharmaceutical, which grew to $63.4 billion in the first quarter as the…
UCB sets sights on rare diseases giant Alexion with Ra Pharma acquisition
UCB is to buy US biotech Ra Pharma in a deal worth around $2.1 billion, adding a late-stage treatment for the rare muscle weakness disease myasthenia gravis to its R&D pipeline and setting up a potential showdown with rare diseases…
