Takeda to Build New Lab to Enhance New Drug Development
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Sep. 7--OSAKA -- Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Japan's largest drug maker,  is planning to build a new laboratory by March 2011 to enhance its development  of new drugs, company sources said Thursday.
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A conglomerate of Japanese companies hopes to develop biochips.
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The drug maker is poised to speed past its rivals.
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Dutch drug conglomerate Akzo Nobel NV is planning to set up a research laboratory in East Cambridge, joining a growing list of pharmaceutical firms that have established outposts to tap Greater Boston's biotechnology cluster.
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On Thursday, the company announced it will invest US$12 million over the next five years in a new research and developmentcenter in Tokyo.
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Now might be a great time to load up on cutting-edge drug makers.
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An experimental drug from Sanofi-Aventis, viewed as pivotal to the newly merged company's future, showed good results in the largest clinical study of the product to date.
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A new drug identified by researchers at Johnson &amp; Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development may revolutionize the way tuberculosis is treated around the world.
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The pharmaceutical giant signs another collaborative research agreement with the small-cap company.
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Exelixis stays busy bringing new drugs into the clinic.
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Researchers anticipate a major recruiting effort and construction boom as California&#39;s new stem-cell experiment gets under way, creating what amounts to an independent West Coast version of the National Institutes of Health.
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The biotech mines extra value from its compound library.
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Platforms have the potential to develop multiple drugs for a company.
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âWe show, for the first time, we can deliver these potentially high-quality therapeutics to an animal.â Hans-Peter Vornlocher, Scientist, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.
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The biotech firm advances to next stage of clinical studies in stem cell research.
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Scientists said on Friday they were a step closer to developing a new class of easy-to-take asthma and allergy drug, capable of tackling the underlying cause of disease rather than just the symptoms.
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Scientists in Hong Kong said yesterday they had devised a new way to identify chemicals that can counter new and dangerous viruses, such as SARS, and these chemicals may be developed into drugs.