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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).
15 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
AstraZeneca has reported new Phase I extended follow-up data on osimertinib in both first- and second-line treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
8 April 2016 | By Victoria White
AstraZeneca and Lilly have announced that AMARANTH, a Phase II/III study of AZD3293 will continue into Phase III of the Phase II/III seamless trial...
5 April 2016 | By Victoria White
This recommendation allows a vaccine containing a strain of pandemic potential to be developed and authorised in advance of a pandemic being declared...
23 March 2016 | By Victoria White
The SOCRATES trial evaluated Brilinta (ticagrelor) versus aspirin for the prevention of major vascular events in patients with an acute ischaemic stroke...
8 March 2016 | By Victoria White
The approval expands the use of Faslodex and offers additional options for US women with HR+, HER2- metastatic breast cancer…
1 March 2016 | By Victoria White
ProStrakan will make an upfront payment to AstraZeneca of $70 million to acquire the rights to Moventig in the EU, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein...
29 February 2016 | By Victoria White
DETERMINE, the Phase IIb clinical trial of tremelimumab monotherapy in second or third-line treatment of unresectable malignant mesothelioma, did not meet its primary endpoint of overall survival...
AstraZeneca and Acerta Pharma have announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP) adopted three positive opinions recommending acalabrutinib (ACP-196) for designation as an orphan medicinal product.
19 February 2016 | By Victoria White
After the first year, patients with a history of heart attack can now continue to be treated with Brilique at the lower dose of 60mg twice daily...
19 February 2016 | By Victoria White
In combination with the current standard of care, Zurampic provides a dual mechanism of action to increase excretion and decrease production of uric acid...
8 February 2016 | By EBD Group
The tenth annual BIO-Europe Spring® springtime international life science partnering conference will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, April 4–6, 2016...
3 February 2016 | By Victoria White
The European Commission (EC) has granted conditional marketing authorisation for AstraZeneca's Tagrisso (AZD9291, 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).
29 January 2016 | By Victoria White
Allergan and AstraZeneca are to develop and commercialise ATM-AVI, an investigational, fixed-dose antibiotic combining aztreonam and avibactam...
28 January 2016 | By Victoria White
This Lynparza BTD is for the treatment of BRCA1/2 or ATM gene mutated metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer...
27 January 2016 | By Victoria White
NICE has published its final recommendations on whether six different drug treatments should be routinely funded by the NHS...
