Pharma giant GSK just made a $5.1 billion bet on a cancer drugmaker (GSK, TSRO)

Reuters via handout GlaxoSmithKline just agreed to acquire the cancer drugmaker Tesaro for $ 5.1 billion in a bid to bulk up its cancer pipeline.  Tesaro makes a drug called Zejula, which is used to treat ovarian cancer.  GSK has been working to refresh its research-and-development strategy — in July it made a $ 300 […]

Pharma giant GSK just made a $5.1 billion bet on a cancer drugmaker (GSK, TSRO)

Reuters via handout GlaxoSmithKline just agreed to acquire the cancer drugmaker Tesaro for $ 5.1 billion in a bid to bulk up its cancer pipeline.  Tesaro makes a drug called Zejula, which is used to treat ovarian cancer.  GSK has been working to refresh its research-and-development strategy — in July it made a $ 300 […]

Trump Forces Big Pharma to Swallow a Bitter Pill

When Nashville native Robyn Erickson came to the defense of Donald Trump during a mid-October town hall in Tennessee organized by OZY, she didn’t give the typical litany of responses — the economy or conservative judges or even immigration. Challenging suggestions that the president has not achieved meaningful successes in office, Erickson, a conservative, said, […]

Circle Pharma Announces Publication in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry of Results from Collaboration with Pfizer Inc.

PRESS RELEASE: SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–January 17, 2018– Circle Pharma, Inc. today announced that results from its collaborative work with Pfizer Inc. to develop a potent and orally bioavailable macrocycle modulator of the chemokine receptor, CXCR7, have been published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. The goal of the collaboration was to deploy Circle’s […]

Big Ag + Big Pharma = Big Problems

Enlarge If you enjoy a good roasted chicken and would like to continue to do so, you might want to stop reading now. Because chicken as we know it—breasts cut up on onto a Caesar salad, nuggets fried in pieces in a bucket, drumsticks wrapped in plastic in the supermarket—is hardly the Little Red Hen […]