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Americas
Pharmaceutical company Teva has become the first business to launch a generic version of Janssen Pharmaceuticals’s migraine treatment drug Axert (almotriptan malate). 13 July 2015
Americas
Law firm Fenwick & West has expanded its life sciences practice by hiring Daniel Becker as partner. 10 July 2015
Biotechnology
The European Patent Office has invalidated a patent covering genetically modified mice and rats. 9 July 2015
Americas
US law firm Lathrop & Gage has hired Amy McMahon to the firm’s intellectual property division. 9 July 2015
Americas
UK-based life sciences research charity MRC Technology has hired Andrew Farquharson as its director of technology transfer. 8 July 2015
Americas
Biotechnology company Biogen has agreed a partnership potentially worth $1 billion with gene therapy business AGTC to develop eye treatments. 7 July 2015
Americas
Law firm Foley Hoag has expanded its intellectual property department by hiring two new partners. 7 July 2015
Africa
The Kenyan government has revealed that there has been an increase in counterfeit drugs entering the country, including antibiotics and Viagra. 6 July 2015
Americas
The market value for biosimilars around the world could reach $20 billion by the end this year and that figure could nearly triple by 2020, according to a report. 3 July 2015
Americas
At a Thomson Reuters event in Paris on Thursday to celebrate the European companies featured on its list of top 100 global innovators, panellists including Novartis and Philips discussed the nature of innovation and how to encourage it. 3 July 2015