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Biotech Symphogen tacks on $53.7M to big venture round after Merck Serono deal
Symphogen has replenished its coffers with 41 million euros ($53.7 million) as the Danish biotech makes progress with next-generation antibody drugs for treating cancer. The latest capital infusion adds to 100 million euros ($130.9 million) that the company previously raised in 2011 for the round, giving the company about 100 million euros in cash as of today, according to the group's press release.
Merck KGaA, Bristol-Myers plan joint assault on China's diabetes market
Diabetes is rampant in China, and growing. And relatively few of the more than 90 million Chinese diabetics are treated. It's no wonder that pharma companies are piling into China, diabetes treatments in tow.
Merck KGaA cuts boost profits, but most layoffs still to come
Merck KGaA's cost-cutting drive is already paying off--and more quickly than the company had anticipated. Partly because of those job cuts and site closures, the German company doubled annual profits to €789.8 million, or about $1 billion.
Pfizer building plant in Saudi Arabia
The Middle East has not drawn the same level of heated interest from drugmakers looking to place new manufacturing facilities as other parts of the world, but now the largest drugmaker in the world is setting up shop there.
Merck KGaA fashions its 6th biotech from Serono R&D wreckage
Merck KGaA has entrusted its R&D portfolio for inflammatory bowel diseases to a start-up Swiss company it's spinning out of the wreckage resulting from its R&D restructuring. A division of the German pharma company, Merck Serono, is seeding Calypso Biotech with more than $3 million and turning over supervision of its investment to the division's venture arm.
Merck Serono nabs an option on late-stage MS therapeutic vax
Close to two years after Merck KGaA was forced to concede the embarrassing collapse of its oral multiple sclerosis program for cladribine, its Serono unit has picked up a cheap option on the global rights to a little-known therapeutic vaccine for MS controlled by a small public biotech company in Texas.
Merck Serono, Feinstein Institute form collaboration to find lupus treatments
Merck Serono and the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have formed a partnership to develop antibodies to treat systemic lupus erythematosus, an unpredictable disease that has no cure.
Merck Serono's Geneva staffers find new jobs, found new companies
The news that Merck KGaA was planning to shutter the gleaming Merck Serono facility in Geneva hit hard last year, spurring protests and appeals that went unheeded at the German pharma company.
Billionaires bankroll R&D institute for Merck KGaA's doomed Geneva facility
There may be a big second act ahead for Merck Serono's gleaming R&D facility in Geneva. A pair of Swiss billionaires allied with the University of Geneva and the federal institute of technology has put in an offer to buy the sprawling complex, offering to create a major new research institution as the big pharma company evacuates the region.
Neopharma to make Merck Serono diabetes drug for Middle East
As drugmakers search the horizon for new markets where they can get some growth and perhaps get a jump on the competition, the Middle East is looking increasingly attractive. At least Merck Serono thinks so.
