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AstraZeneca plc is an Anglo–Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company.
In 2013, it moved its headquarters to Cambridge, United Kingdom, and concentrated its R&D in three sites: Cambridge, Gaithersburg, Maryland (location of MedImmune) for work on biopharmaceuticals, and Mölndal (near Gothenburg) in Sweden, for research on traditional chemical drugs. In 2015, it was the eighth-largest drug company in the world based on sales revenue.
AstraZeneca has a portfolio of products for major disease areas including cancer, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, infection, neuroscience, respiratory and inflammation. The company was founded in 1999 through the merger of the Swedish Astra AB and the English Zeneca Group (itself formed by the demerger of the pharmaceutical operations of Imperial Chemical Industries in 1993). It has made numerous corporate acquisitions, including Cambridge Antibody Technology (in 2006), MedImmune (in 2007), Spirogen (in 2013) and Definiens (by MedImmune in 2014).
8 June 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
AstraZeneca's positive results from its trial that showed a statistically-significant and clinically-meaningful improvement in progression-free survival...
26 May 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
A trial led by a McMaster University respirology professor shows promising results for a new medicine for severe asthma patients.
25 May 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
The European Commission has granted marketing authorisation for AstraZeneca’s Brilique (ticagrelor) orodispersible tablets (ODT) as a new formulation...
24 May 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
AstraZeneca has entered into an agreement with Recordati for the commercial rights to Seloken/Seloken ZOK treatments in Europe...
16 May 2017 | By European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA)
The EMA is a world class regulator, whose scientific recommendations are a vital element of the ongoing effort to provide EU citizens with quality medicines
9 May 2017 | By University of Leeds
Data from a new device demonstrates maximal levels of extensional flow which manufacturers could use for different processes, without damaging proteins...
5 May 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
The FDA has approved Roche’s biomarker assay as a complementary diagnostic to provide PD-L1 status for patients with urothelial carcinoma...
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The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has issued a positive opinion recommending the adoption of AstraZeneca’s Brilique (ticagrelor) 90mg orodispersible tablets (ODT) as a new method of treatment administration. This opinion is the first step towards the adoption of a new…
3 May 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval to AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi (durvalumab) to treat metastatic urothelial carcinoma...
27 April 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
The European Commission (EC) has granted full marketing authorisation for AstraZeneca’s Tagrisso (osimertinib) for the treatment of adult patients with locally-advanced or metastatic epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) T790M mutation-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
The annual Drugs to Watch report forecasts that eight new drugs will enter the market in 2017 and achieve blockbuster sales of more than $900 billion by 2021...
6 April 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
In a trial carried out at Imperial College, researchers showed that women who suffered seven or more hot flushes a day could reduce the number by 73%...
4 April 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted full approval for AstraZeneca’s Tagrisso (osimertinib) tablets, for the treatment of patients with metastatic epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) T790M mutation-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), as detected by an FDA-approved test, whose disease has progressed on or after an EGFR…
30 March 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
AstraZeneca and its global biologics research and development arm, MedImmune, announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted orphan designation to inebilizumab (formerly MEDI-551) for the treatment of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD).
17 March 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
AstraZeneca’s Phase III SOLO-2 trial demonstrated a significant improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) in germline BRCA-mutated (gBRCA), platinum-sensitive, relapsed ovarian cancer patients treated with Lynparza (olaparib) tablets (300mg twice daily) compared with placebo in the maintenance setting. The trial met its primary endpoint of investigator assessed PFS (HR 0.30; 95%…
