Pharma & Biotech
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Two Montgomery County Companies Take Home Life Sciences Pennsylvania’s Awards
Two Montgomery County companies came out as winners during the awards ceremony part of the Life Sciences Pennsylvania’s annual dinner, writes John George for Philadelphia Business Journal. The annual event drew a record 1,200 crowd on Thursday night, where awards were given out for various categories in the life science industry. Allergan, the Fort Washington…
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Conshohocken’s AmerisourceBergen Settles Opioid Abuse Lawsuit for $16M
After being targeted alongside other leading prescription drug distributors for blame in West Virginia’s growing opioid abuse epidemic, AmerisourceBergen has settled a lawsuit from the state’s attorney general for $16 million, according to a report in The Washington Post by Scott Higham and Lenny Bernstein. The Conshohocken pharmaceutical giant denied wrongdoing in the case, which…
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Montgomery County Careers – Inovio Pharmaceuticals
Montgomery County Careers – Inovio Pharmaceuticals Meta Description (150 characters) SEO Keyword (1-2 words): Inovio Pharmaceuticals Word Count (Less 31 For Template): 388 The Post (Target length: 250 to 400 words): 362 Plymouth Meeting’s Inovio Pharmaceuticals is engaged in the development of a new generation of vaccines, called synthetic vaccines, focused on cancers and infectious…
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Silicon Valley Infuses Gene Testing Firm Genomind With $11M
The promise of more accurate pharmaceutical regimens for mental health patients has infused King of Prussia-based genetic testing firm Genomind with $11 million in a new round of equity financing. Silicon Valley Bank, alongside current shareholders, put up the money, which aims to propel personalized medicine to new levels domestically, to new countries internationally and…
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Merck & Co. a Finalist for Patient Impact Award
Amidst southeast Pennsylvania’s thriving life sciences industry, three companies stood out last year as the most prominent champions of the health and wellbeing of everyday patients. And North Wales’ Merck & Co. is one of them. Merck & Co.’s significant contribution to the quality of health care came in the form of KEYTRUDA, the anti-PD-1…
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GlaxoSmithKline CEO: New Drugs Must Be Both Innovative and Affordable
Drug pricing, regulations, and possible Medicaid price negotiations are among the subjects GlaxoSmithKline’s CEO Andrew Witty recently discussed in a Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas interview. According to Witty, the company with facilities in Collegeville has already been working on reforming its pricing strategy for the last five years. “We need to be very clear as we…
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Montgomery County Careers – Azzur Group
Based in Willow Grove, Azzur Group is a private equity firm comprised of a network of high-level life science companies, created to provide efficient and cost-effective solutions. Business Analysts This position uses data to understand business patterns and analyze data through quantitative research, identifies current and future state business processes, and creates, analyzes, and validates functional business…
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President and CEO of North Wales’ Teva Pharmaceutical Steps Down
There has been a shakeup in management at Teva Pharmaceutical, with the current president and CEO Erez Vigodman stepping down effective immediately and the chairman of the company’s board of directors Yitzhak Peterburg taking over as interim CEO, writes Linda Loyd for Philly.com. The announcement was made after the stock market closed on Monday. It…
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Washington Post: King of Prussia Company’s Drug May Be Solution to Painkiller Addiction
Two centuries after pharmacists first isolated morphine from opium, a King of Prussia pharmaceutical company is on the brink of offering a non-addictive alternative for those desperately looking for some relief from pain, writes Vicky Hallett for The Washington Post. Trevena’s oliceridine was developed using neuroscience research that was pioneered by Laura Bohn, a Scripps…
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Jenkintown Animal Group Recognizes Middle-Schooler for Her Work against Frog Dissection
Animalearn has named 13-year-old Jenna Ward of McCarthy Middle School in Chelmsford as its 2016 Humane Student of the Year for her dedication to the protection of frogs often used for dissection in science class, according to a staff report from The Lowell Sun. “Animalearn is proud to recognize Jenna Ward with our 2016 Humane…
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Philly’s Life Sciences Industry Has a $25 Billion Footprint
With its dozen-plus world-renowned research institutions and top biomedical programs, a healthy ecosystem of 1,200 small and large enterprises employing nearly 50,000 people, and $6.3 billion of investment activity, Greater Philadelphia is a breeding ground for life sciences innovation and leadership. That’s according to the new Greater Philadelphia Life Sciences Report, jointly put together by…
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Life Sciences Pennsylvania, Clarkson Consulting to Award $10K Scholarship
Intent on stoking passion for the life sciences, the Wayne-based state association formerly known as Pennsylvania Bio is again putting serious money behind its advocacy for and promotion of industry growth and development. Life Sciences Pennsylvania and Clarkston Consulting of North Wales are now taking applications to discover the college sophomore who will become only…
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Willow Grove Private Equity Firm Acquires Learnaboutgmp
Willow Grove private equity firm Azzur Group has acquired Learnaboutgmp, an online training and education platform for biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device companies. This platform makes it possible for pharmaceutical companies to significantly increase their compliance knowledge. This acquisition will also allow Azzur Group, which has holdings in the life sciences consulting industry, to offer…
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Montgomery County Careers – PRA Health Sciences
PRA (Pharmaceutical Research Associates) Health Sciences provides clinical development services. Some of its services include drug development and regulatory strategy plans, phase I clinical trials, phase II through IV multi-center clinical trials, development and analysis of integrated global clinical databases, and preparation and submission of regulatory filings in North America and Europe. PRA has more than…
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GlaxoSmithKline to Bring More R&D to Montgomery County
GlaxoSmithKline is consolidating its research and development with new smart labs in Upper Providence Township, according to a staff report from Fortune. The British pharma giant is planning to shift 40 percent of its global pharmaceutical research and development workers to Montgomery County by 2018. To achieve this, the company is investing $250 million in…
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Wayne’s DrugDev Acquires SecureConsent for its e-consent Software
DrugDev, the Wayne developer of cloud-based solutions provider for drug studies, has acquired SecureConsent, a mobile e-consent software developer, writes John George for Philadelphia Business Journal. Secure Consent’s software products replace the paper methods, historically used to secure informed consent from patients who are taking part in drug studies, with its e-consent method that uses…
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Plymouth Meeting’s Company Wins TOPRA Innovation Award for Regulatory Excellence
Plymouth Meeting’s Pinnacle 21, which provides clinical data standards software and subject matter expertise to the life sciences industry, has won this year’s TOPRA Award for Regulatory Excellence in Innovation. Max Kanevsky and the Pinnacle 21 team won the award for their Pinnacle 21 Enterprise software which is used by the FDA, PMDA, and clinical…
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Almac Group Expansion Prescribes Big Economic Impact
Almac Group is prescribing significant economic growth for Souderton and Lansdale thanks to new plans for a $24.4 million expansion. The pharmaceutical developer and manufacturer just received a $1.56 million Pennsylvania First Program gra nt from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, and it anticipates investing the rest over the course of the…
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