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NicOx SA said it has filed a new drug application (NDA) with the US Food and Drug Administration for naproxcinod for the treatment of osteoarthritic pain.

The pharmaceutical industry must move quickly to change its business model in order to be able to deliver new products in the future, Jean-Claude Muller of sanofi-aventis told a meeting of industry executives.

Qiagen NV, a Dutch provider of sample and assay technologies, has acquired DxS Ltd, of Britain in a transaction that will expand Qiagen’s market position in molecular diagnostics for personalised medicine.

The European Commission’s research partnership with industry aimed at finding new ways of making drug development more efficient is preparing to launch a new series of projects valued at €156.3 million

Cell Medica Ltd, an early-stage cellular therapeutics company, has received £1.95 million in new funding in order to commercialise its lead product, a cell therapy technique which protects patients from infection following a bone marrow transplant.

AstraZeneca Plc is to pay $125 million upfront for two drug development programmes that address opioid-induced constipation. The payments are part of its exclusive licensing agreement with the US-based Nektar Therapeutics.

An international team of scientists has reported finding four new single-letter variations in the sequence of the human genome which confers an increased risk of prostate cancer. The findings were published online in Nature Genetics.

The Wellcome Trust and Merck & Co have created a social business to develop affordable vaccines for diseases prevalent in low-income countries.

A new compound has been identified that could play a role in treating cancers that are dependent on a complex network of proteins known as the Wnt signalling pathway. The findings were reported in the science journal, Nature.

Bayer AG has appointed a professional from outside the company as its chief-executive-officer designate to replace Werner Wenning who is retiring. Marijn Dekkers, the new CEO, currently heads Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.