Research Companies Join With Nonprofits

More Business Concentrates

• Changing Fortunes For Cellulosic Fuel Makers
• As one developer of cellulosic biofuels gets funded, two others face difficulties...
• M&G Picks Texas For New Plants
• Italian chemical firm Mossi & Ghisolfi has picked Corpus Christi, Texas, for the site of its largest ever investment...
• Solvay And Avantium Join For Polymers
• Solvay and high-throughput-screening firm Avantium have entered a multiyear collaboration to develop nylon engineering polymers...
• NASDAQ Delists Chinese Company
• The NASDAQ stock exchange has ordered the delisting of Keyuan Petrochemicals, a commodity chemical producer...
• Lanxess Buys Tire Release Agents
• Lanxess’ Rhein Chemie unit has acquired Wacker Chemie’s tire release agents busines...
• Avantor And Sachem Form Etchants Pact
• Avantor Performance Materials, formerly Mallinckrodt Baker, has entered a joint development agreement with Sachem to provide etching chemicals...
• TT To Acquire Water Monitoring Firm YSI
• ITT Corp. will buy the privately held instrumentation firm YSI. Based in Yellow Springs, Ohio...
• BASF Wins Approval For Biofungicide
• Brazil has registered the biological fungicide Serenade for apples, onions, and strawberries...
• Gilead Opens Access To HIV Treatments
• Gilead Sciences has expanded access to its HIV medicines through agreements with the Medicines Patent Pool Foundation (MPPF)...
• BMS Buys Stake In Innate Immunotherapy
• Bristol-Myers Squibb is shelling out $35 million up front and up to $430 million in milestones for access to IPH2102...
• Amgen Licenses Micromet Technology
• Amgen will pay Micromet $14 million up front to apply the Rockville, Md.-based biotech firm’s BiTE antibody technology...
• Research Companies Join With Nonprofits
• The Innovative Vector Control Consortium has signed an agreement with the contract research firm Scynexis to find compounds suitable for development...
• Kraton, Formosa Set Styrenics Venture
• Kraton Performance Polymers is planning a 50-50 joint venture with Formosa Petrochemical that will build a 30,000-metric-ton-per-year...
• Business Roundup
• MacDermid, LS9, Praxair, ElevancE Renewable Sciences, Clariant, Valeant Pharmaceuticals, Carbogen Amcis, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals...

Topics Covered

CROs, contract research, drug discovery