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AstraZeneca to manufacture pharmaceuticals in Abu Dhabi
AstraZeneca has signed a strategic agreement to expand its existing partnership with a healthcare company in Abu Dhabi to locally manufacture innovative drugs.
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AstraZeneca
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).
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Clinical innovation: using digital solutions to deliver the next wave of medicines
Rapid progress in digital health technologies is enriching clinical trial design, improving clinical trial recruitment strategies and harnessing the power of clinical trial data to improve outcomes for patients and guide future research. Here, Natalie Fishburn, Cristina Duran and Serban Ghiorghiu, from R&D at AstraZeneca, discuss the evolving nature of clinical innovation…
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Dapagliflozin approved for heart failure across LVEFs
The MHRA has approved dapagliflozin for chronic heart failure across the full spectrum of left ventricular ejection fraction.
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Top biopharma firms report Q3 market capitalisation decline
The top 20 biopharma companies averaged a market capitalisation decline of $3.45 trillion in Q2 to $3.14 trillion in Q3 2022, says GlobalData.
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CPI opens £88 million manufacturing innovation centre
CPI has opened its Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre in Scotland to focus on efficient, sustainable manufacturing and advance medicine research.
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AstraZeneca to acquire Neogene for $320 million
AstraZeneca is set to acquire Neogene Therapeutics to advance T-cell receptor therapies for hard-to-treat cancers like solid tumours.
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Seven pharma CEOs unite to achieve emission targets
In a global first, the health sector has converged to incentivise supply chains and clinical trials to reduce emissions through the Sustainable Markets Initiative Health Systems Task Force.
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AstraZeneca dual immunotherapy approved for US liver cancer patients
The FDA has approved Imfinzi™ combined with Imjudo for adults with unresectable liver cancer, based on a lower risk of death compared to only sorafenib.
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Diagnostic approval facilitates more cancer patients treatment
The US FDA has approved Roche’s companion diagnostic test which identifies low HER2 expression in metastatic breast cancer, increasing pool of patients eligible for treatment with antibody drug conjugate Enhertu.
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Collaborations between pharma and academia increase
The pharmaceutical industry is bolstering aid for student research training in the UK, according to a survey produced by The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI).
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Evusheld COVID-19 therapy approved in EU
Evusheld becomes first and only long-acting antibody combination available for both prevention and treatment of COVID-19 in Europe.
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A strategic approach to optimisations of testing bacterial endotoxins
Given industry's recent focus on the sustainability of bacterial endotoxin testing (BET), here, AstraZeneca colleagues Miriam Guest, Karen Capper, Dennis Wong and Phil Duncanson share how they worked to establish a short-, mid- and long-term strategy to optimise BET across the global enterprise. They also explore some of the short-term…
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49 percent ORR for Tagrisso plus savolitinib in lung cancer
Almost half of patients with EGFR-mutated lung cancer with high MET overexpression who had progressed on Tagrisso alone responded to treatment with the addition of savolitinib.
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Lilly to pay more than $180mn for defrauding US Medicaid Program
For allegedly underpaying rebates, Eli Lilly has been ordered to pay more than $61 million in damages, an amount that lawyers say will be trebled for the final judgement.
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AstraZeneca to acquire TeneoTwo and its blood-cancer therapeutic
AstraZeneca announces plans to acquire TeneoTwo and its CD19/CD3 T-cell engager, TNB-486, in a deal worth up to $1.2bn.
