@FiercePharma: ICYMI Friday: The Adcock Ingram sale gets messier, with Bidvest upping stake to block $1.2B CFR Pharma buyout. More | Follow @FiercePharma
@EricPFierce: Former Actavis CEO Robert Wessman gets Iceland to invest $250M in his biosimilars aspirations. Friday's story | Follow @EricPFierce
@CarlyHFierce: Pentagon tasks Pfizer with radically rethinking vaccine development. Story from FierceVaccines | Follow @CarlyHFierce
> The FDA has allowed Princeton University today to start a vaccination program for students using Novartis' ($NVS) meningitis B vaccine Bexsero, which is approved in Europe, Australia and Canada but not yet in the U.S. Release
> The strain of bacterial meningitis that has infected 8 students at Princeton University has also infected four students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, although that college has not yet moved to vaccinate students with Novartis' Bexsero. Story
> Lawyers for former SAC fund manager Mathew Martoma, named in a $276 million insider trading case, claim testimony by SAC Capital Advisors founder Steven Cohen shows their client wasn't involved in the alleged scheme. Story
> Mylan ($MYL) Chairman Robert Coury and President Rajiv Malik say their strategy in India has been to grow organically as well as through acquisitions. Q&A
> Teva Pharmaceutical Industries ($TEVA) says by 2018 its pipeline of new drugs could be producing between $1 billion and $1.5 billion in sales. Story
@FierceMedDev: Covidien is acquiring Given Imaging, maker of the 'PillCam' oral endoscope, for $860M. More | Follow @FierceMedDev
@MarkHFierce: Zoll won Japanese approval for a next-gen monitor/defibrillator, marking its continued expansion in a giant HC mkt. Release | Follow @MarkHFierce
@MichaelGFierce: IT firm Cerner invests in Dx maker Claritas Genomics. Item | Follow @MichaelGFierce
@GalenMoore: Had breakfast yet? Here's a video of Pillcam's journey through the colon. Video | Follow @GalenMoore
> FDA asserts support for consumer genetic tests despite 23andMe crackdown. More
> Robert Langer co-founds a French wound-closure startup with a $10.8M Series A. Story
> Boston Scientific's departing CFO leads massive exec stock sell-off. Article
Biotech News
@FierceBiotech: 2013 American Society of Hematology annual meeting roundup: AbbVie, Gilead join Novartis in the center ring. Coverage | Follow @FierceBiotech
@JohnCFierce: Biogen forges a $200M preclinical Alzheimer's drug deal with Proteostasis. Story | Follow @JohnCFierce
@DamianFierce: "People who should have died 5 yrs ago are alive and well and in complete remission. It's a huge... shift." Story from Bloomberg | Follow @DamianFierce
@EmilyMFierce: A dried-up antibiotics pipeline has led two scientists to launch a crowdsourcing campaign for antibiotics research. Story | Follow @EmilyMFierce
> Novartis/Penn's customized T cell wows ASH with stellar leukemia data. More
> New era for hep C treatment begins with FDA OK for Gilead's sofosbuvir. Article
> Novartis is budgeting $6B a year for bolt-ons. Item
CRO News
> Sarah Cannon buys a clinical trial outfit to expand its cancer reach. Story
> Fast-growing Agilux doubles its preclinical space. News
> Venn snags an Irish CRO in its global buyout push. Report
> Charles River recruits Sloan-Kettering CEO to bolster its science. More
> Pfizer's unlocked trial data could be a boon to CROs. Article
> Sluggish Parexel could be poised for a long-term turnaround. Item
Biotech IT News
> Pfizer is opening up clinical trial data to researchers, patients starting in 2014. Report
> Wanted: 1,000 citizen scientists to crowdsource antibiotics research. Story
> Report tips analytics to get biopharma out of its productivity slump. News
> U.K. sets up $16M competition to find genome data analysis tools. Article
> Text mining 88,000 papers gives Pfizer a drug safety database. More
> Machine learning improves accuracy of flu forecasts. Item
And Finally... Covidien ($COV) will pay $860 million to buy Israel-based Given Imaging ($GIVN), which makes PillCam, the encapsulated endoscope that patients swallow. Story