Novartis, a Basel, Switzerland-based drug giant, nonetheless chose to place its research headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.
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C-Sixty, a firm based in Toronto, that is now developing the first fullerene-based drug candidates.
The pill-based drug is already approved to treat various tumors of the pancreas, kidney and brain.
C-Sixty's fullerene-based drug scuppers this process by settling snugly into the enzyme's active site, stopping it functioning.
The alternative was to develop a protein-based drug, like Erbitux, but the drug would have to be injected.
The Osaka-based drug firm currently ranks only 14th worldwide, but it could soon be among the top ten.
The alternative was to develop a protein-based drug, like Erbitux, but then patients would have to be injected.
More important, research-based drug firms are using a variety of tactics to make the patent cliff slope more gently.
The drug, AC2993, could help the Indianapolis-based drug giant maintain its position as one of the leaders in diabetes treatment.
The guests are there to help raise money for scholarships to Caron Renaissance, a Florida-based drug and alcohol rehabilitation center.
But it doesn't make the London-based drug giant much money anymore: Tamoxifen went off-patent and is now available as a cheap generic.
San Diego is Pfizer's center for structure-based drug design, which uses computers to map disease-causing proteins and suggests ways to thwart them.
Today, the New York-based drug maker announced that it plans to put its consumer products division, which makes Excedrin, on the auction block.
The New York-based drug giant will make its medicines available to all of those 43 million people at a discount--and sometimes for free.
Its hepatitis C medicines, Rebetol and Peg-Intron, are facing tough competition from a new entrant from Roche , a Basel, Switzerland-based drug giant.
When Pfizer, a research-based drug firm, announced increased profits and a hefty cut in its research-and-development budget on February 1st, its shares surged.
That's why Kim pooh-poohs speculation by some pharmaceutical industry watchers that his appointment represents a vote of confidence from Merck in protein-based drug research.
Reddy aspires to build his enterprise into a research-based drug major.
Ziopharm devised a new version of an old mustard-gas based drug.
Most of Genentech is owned by Basel, Switzerland-based drug giant Roche.
The New York-based drug giant filed a lawsuit last year in the U.S.District Court inDelaware, alleging both Cialis and Levitra infringe a recent Viagra "method-of-use" patent.
But, this morning, Bonfield provided the clearest picture yet of exactly how Bristol has been doing and exactly how the New York-based drug giant's accounting went so awry.
On Thursday, the Basel, Switzerland-based drug giant will post earnings.
And therefore it runs against the traditional Genentech narrative, in which a group of altruistic biologists come down from the ivory tower to save the brutes at the New Jersey-based drug giants.
That price would be as low as the price Canada was getting from Toronto-based drug maker Apotex , which has also pledged to deliver its generic ciprofloxacin faster than Bayer, according to Apotex spokesman Elie Batito.
In contrast, none of Pfizer 's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) top eight drugs in the third quarter were introduced in the past three years, even though they accounted for most of the New York-based drug giant's sales.
"It so happens that this year, the compounds that represent the kind of novel approach to medicine that we want to develop happen to be in phase I or phase II, " says Dennis Burns , the head of global business development at Hoffman-La Roche , Roche's U.S.-based drug division.
The London-based drug giant is the world's second-biggest drug company in terms of total sales, but it has had trouble delivering revenue growth and may feel it needs even more heft to compete with Pfizer after that company merges with Pharmacia (nyse: PHA - news - people ).
The New York-based drug giant says last night it received news that in a study, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, on using Celebrex to prevent cancerous colon polyps, the drug more than doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes. (The risk showed up with the highest dose of Celebrex.) That study, called the APC trial, has been halted.
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