February 7, 2012
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) and Inhibitex, Inc. (Nasdaq:INHX) announced today that the companies have signed a definitive agreement under which Bristol-Myers Squibb will acquire Inhibitex for $26.00 per share in cash pursuant to a cash tender offer and second step merger. The transaction, with an aggregate purchase price of approximately $2.5 billion, has been approved [...]
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review a New Drug Application (NDA) for ELIQUIS® (apixaban), an investigational compound for the prevention of stroke and systemic embolism in patients with atrial fibrillation. The FDA accepted the filing and assigned [...]
The numbers are sobering: more than two million arrests in the United States each year involve people with serious mental illnesses (SMI). By the best and most recent estimate, nearly one in three women and one in seven men in our nation’s jails suffer from depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or other mental illnesses. “These individuals [...]
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) and AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) today announced results from a pre-specified meta-analysis of cardiovascular (CV) safety data from 14 Phase 2b/3 trials in adult patients with type 2 diabetes, which showed that the investigational compound dapagliflozin was not associated with an unacceptable increase in CV risk relative to all comparators pooled [...]
ASLAN Pharmaceuticals Pte Ltd, a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Singapore, and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) today announced an innovative strategic partnership allowing for the rapid development of BMS-777607, Bristol-Myers Squibb’s investigational small molecule inhibitor of the MET receptor tyrosine kinase for treatment of solid tumors. This creative approach will accelerate the delivery of clinical [...]
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) and AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended the action date for dapagliflozin for the treatment of type 2 diabetes by three months. The new Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) goal date is January 28, 2012. “Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca are [...]
PRINCETON, N.J. -Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a subcutaneous (SC) formulation of ORENCIA® (abatacept) for the treatment of adults with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA). ORENCIA is indicated for reducing signs and symptoms, inducing major clinical response, inhibiting the progression of structural [...]
NEW YORK & SAN DIEGO – Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) and Amira Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced today that the companies have signed a definitive agreement under which Bristol-Myers Squibb will acquire privately held Amira Pharmaceuticals, a small-molecule pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and early development of new drugs to treat inflammatory and fibrotic diseases. “As [...]
PRINCETON, N.J. & WILMINGTON, Del. – Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) and AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) today reported the outcome of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee meeting on the New Drug Application for the investigational compound dapagliflozin. “Do the efficacy and safety data provide substantial evidence to support [...]
LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. – For teachers exploring new ways to make science and mathematics more interesting – and more relevant – for their students, New Jersey is more than the medicine chest of the world. It is a living laboratory. “RxeSEARCH provides students an opportunity to explore and solve realistic problems in science while also offering [...]
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