Agreement will speed research on microbicides for women
Defects in a single gene can result in two immune system disorders that leave affected individuals vulnerable to frequent or unusually severe infections, according to new findings reported in the August issue of Nature Genetics. The discovery may lead to new diagnostic tests for these two inherited conditions ?immunoglobulin A (IgA) deficiency and common variable immunodeficiency (CVID). Currentl...New licensing agreement to maximize AIDS drug development
Longtime collaborators CONRAD and the Biosyn Division of Cellegy Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement to research and develop Biosyn-patented microbicides for the prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. The three microbicides covered under the agreement are in various stages of development and work under different mechanisms of act...Two Milwaukee finance IT firms agree to exchange check images
Fiserv is an IT service provider claiming 4,000 financial clients. E...OpGen forges agreement with Japanese importer
M&S imports pharmaceutical, info-tech and biotech tools. The partnership will market OpGen's system for analyzing genomes to life-science researchers in Japan. The company's import product lines include reagents, kits...WARF sues Samsung over computer chip technology license agreement
MADISON The , the world's largest maker of computer memory chips, for allegedly using a patented technology developed by University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty without a license for use in thei...WARF enters licensing agreements for stem cell products
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will highlight the rule changes, while subsequent articles w...Agreement To Speed Up Development of Bird flu vaccine
In a collective effort to combat the bird flu pandemic, international health ministers have struck an agreement to speed up the development and production of a pandemic bird flu vaccine. Ministers from the US, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, // Mexico, Italy, representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Union (EU) health commissioners - all members of the Gl...MIOT Hospital Signs Agreement With German Healthcare Facility
South India's Madras Institute of Trauma, more familiarly known as MIOT hospital, has signed an agreement with a public healthcare system of a city in Germany, aimed at sharing resources in the paramedical, //medical, and hospital administration fields. MIOT signed a memorandum of understanding with Stuttgart Mayor Wolfgang Schuster on 28 January 2006. Stuttgart's public healthcare s...GlaxoSmithKline Agrees To Settle Paxil Claims For $14 million
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has reached an agreement with Eliot Spitzer, New York Attorney General to settle claims that it deceptively tried to delay competitors from releasing the generic versions of its star anti-depressant drug Paxil.// GSK was allegedly involved in a shady enterprise to keep the generic producers of Paxil in a bind of using frivolous patent-infringement lawsuits, thus...Strained Economic Agreement Between Singapore And India
According to the Business India the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is not allowing Temasek Holdings to raise its stake in India's ICICI bank and the State Bank of India (SBI) // facing difficulties in obtaining qualifying full bank status in the city-state. The Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) that was signed between India and Singapore appears to have some problems. T...Ranbaxy Signs Licensing, Supply Agreement for Canadian Market
India's biggest drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd today said it had entered into a licensing and supply agreement with Janssen-Ortho Inc (JOI) for a generic version of Risperidone compressed tablets in the Canadian market. // The agreement was signed between Ranbaxy's wholly owned subsidiary, Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc (RPCI) and Janssen-Ortho Inc (JOI), the company said in a...