Data and Artificial Intelligence

In January 2011, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced the new revision of EudraLex Volume 4 (GMP) - Annex 11 'Computerised Systems', and the consequential amendment of EudraLex Volume 4 - Chapter 4 ?Documentation?.

Can the semiconductor industry help Big Pharma develop therapies?

The authors developed automated equipment that uses functionally closed disposables to perform cellular and ribonucleic processing.

Axcan acquires Mpex Pharmaceuticals; Bend Research receives patent for improving bioavailability of low-solubility drugs; and More.

Eli Lilly and GlaxoSmithKline are among several pharmaceutical companies using technology transfer as way to improve health outcomes in the developing world.

Pfizer Completes King Acquisition; ViiV Healthcare Names Chairman; and More.

FDA recently sent sanofi-aventis two Warning Letters for its facilities in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and Bridgewater, NJ.

INTERPHEX 2011 aims to address the industry's unique characteristics.

Gilead to Acquire Calistoga; Bayer Healthcare Appoints Former Pfizer Exec; and More.

Company and People Notes: sanofi to Acquire Genzyme; Lilly Makes Senior Appointments; and More.

Pfizer Acquires Ferrosan's Consumer Health Business; Patheon Appoints Former Biogen Exec as CEO; and More.

The European Medicines Agency has released a new Annex 11-Computerized Systems to its GMP Guide Chapter 4 on Documentation to account for the increased use of and complexity of computerized systems in the drug-manufacturing community.

Company and People Notes: Pfizer Completes King Tender Offer; Cook Pharmica Names VP of R&D and CSO; and More

Follow-ons were all the rage at this year's JP Morgan Healthcare Conference.

Novartis Acquires Genoptix; Lilly Exec Becomes Savient CEO; and More.

Merck Teams with Parexel; Roche CFO to Retire; and More

Gilead Sciences to Acquire Arresto Biosciences; Sartorius Appoints Head of Lab Business; and More.

Capable of great works, pharma as a whole still yields to the lesser angels of its nature.

AstraZeneca and Abbott End Program; PhRMA Elects New Members; and More.

Pfizer Recalls One Lipitor Lot; Sanofi Aventis Names Head of R&D; and More.

Thermo Fisher to Acquire Dionex; Former SOCMA CEO Joe Acker Dies; and More.

Company and People Notes: GlaxoSmithKline acquires Nanjing MeiRui Pharma; Cephalon's CEO to remain on medical leave; and more.

Genzyme Sells Business Unit to Sekisui Chemical; Ablexis Names VP of Research; and More.

Roche Details Restructuring Plan; Sigma-Aldrich Names Successors after CEO's Death; and More.

Eli Lilly Acquires Avid Radiopharmaceuticals; EMA Recruiting New Director; and More