Domain Invest

  • Subscribe to our RSS feed.
  • Twitter
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Facebook
  • Digg

Monday, 17 September 2007

While You Were in Italy

Posted on 04:00 by Unknown
Temple of Antoninus and Faustina


Your blogger spent the past four days overeating in Rome and Tuscany and trying and failing to think of a Roman empire/Big Pharma joke, and all you'll get is this lousy weekend/early Monday roundup. What, you wanted a T-shirt?
  • We came, we saw, we outsourced: AstraZeneca to offload all manufacturing activities, the Times is reporting this morning.
  • Et tu, Dan? Via Reuters: "I have no indication that could confirm any rumours about tie-ups between big players in the sector," Vasella told French newspaper La Tribune in an interview.
  • Ahead of Sanofi-Aventis' R&D meeting today, the company says it will bulk up in biologics. We'll have much more to say on the Big Pharma haves and have-nots in the biologics world in the next IN VIVO.
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to Facebook
Posted in AstraZeneca, mergers and acquisitions, Novartis, Sanofi-aventis, While You Were ... | No comments
Newer Post Older Post Home

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Popular Posts

  • While You Were Settling
    Well, it was an interesting weekend: the writers' strike may have been settled, Obama swept (and won a Grammy), and there was an unusual...
  • EPO Relabeling: Its Not the Black Box, Its What FDA Says About the Black Box
    Whoever said actions speak louder than words hasn’t been paying attention to the regulatory response to drug safety issues involving the ane...
  • The Wacky World of Generics: Fosamax Edition
    Today, Merck bids a fond farewell to its Fosamax franchise, as the first generic versions enter the market. Three generic firms are enteri...
  • Higher Tax, Fewer Deals?
    The IN VIVO Blog has been somewhat mum on the carried interest debate. Frankly, this topic is being covered to death elsewhere (The link g...
  • CardioNet's Not So Big Surprise
    Riddle us this. When is news not news at all? When it’s involving CardioNet Inc.’s Friday filing for an IPO . See, this filing was essential...
  • While You Were Staying Put
    It's always sunny in ... London? Lets kick off the weekend wrap-up by highlighting a trio of stories from The Times about incoming Glax...
  • While You Were Almost Upsetting
    We've been told by certain football (soccer) fans that there are not enough allusions to the beautiful game in our weekend roundups. So ...
  • FDA’s Search for a Drug Chief Not Going Well: An Internal Candidate Emerges
    We know all of you have been passing the time following the Presidential Primaries when the race you’re really interested in is who the next...
  • While You Were Redesigning Your Blog
    Does our blog look big in this? You may have noticed a few changes round these parts, and we hope you like them. No, not that the pace of o...
  • The Downsizing Opportunity: Pipeline on the Cheap?
    The IN VIVO Blog was in Michigan last week, attending a profiting-from-downsizing symposium. Would Pfizer—we wondered at the Michigan Growth...

Categories

  • Abbott
  • activist shareholders
  • ADHD
  • advisory committees
  • alliances
  • Alnylam
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Amgen
  • Andrew von Eschenbach
  • Andrew Witty
  • Astellas
  • AstraZeneca
  • Avandia
  • Avastin
  • Barack Obama
  • Barr
  • Bayer
  • Big Pharma
  • BIO
  • Biogen Idec
  • biologics
  • biosimilars
  • blogging
  • BMS
  • Boston Scientific
  • brand names
  • business development
  • business models
  • cancer vaccines
  • Carl Icahn
  • CBO
  • CDER
  • Celgene
  • Cephalon
  • China
  • clinical development
  • CMS
  • co-promotes
  • comparative effectiveness
  • conference
  • Congress
  • consumer genomics
  • corporate culture
  • corporate governance
  • corporate venture capital
  • CVS Caremark
  • Cytyc
  • David Kessler
  • deals of the week
  • debt financing
  • Diabetes
  • diagnostics
  • Dick Clark
  • drug approvals
  • drug delivery
  • drug discovery
  • drug eluting stents
  • Drug Pricing
  • drug safety
  • drug samples
  • DTC Advertising
  • e-health
  • Eisai
  • Elan
  • Eli Lilly
  • Emphasys
  • emphysema
  • Endo
  • epo
  • Euro-Biotech Forum
  • Exits
  • Exubera
  • FDA
  • FDA/CMS Summit
  • FDAAA
  • Film and TV
  • financing
  • FOBs
  • Forest Labs
  • Galvus
  • gene therapy
  • Genentech
  • General Electric
  • generics
  • Genzyme
  • Gleevec
  • Google
  • GSK
  • Guidant
  • haircuts
  • Happy Holidays
  • HCV
  • Headhunting
  • Health Care Reform
  • hedge funds
  • Henry Waxman
  • hGH
  • HHS
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Hologic
  • hostile takeovers
  • hypertension
  • ImClone
  • IMS Health
  • In vitro diagnostics
  • In3
  • India
  • insomnia
  • instrumentation
  • insulin
  • Inverness
  • IP
  • IPO
  • IPO pricing
  • Isis Pharmaceuticals
  • Israel
  • IT
  • JAMA
  • Januvia
  • Japan
  • John McCain
  • Johnson and Johnson
  • JP Morgan
  • LaMattina
  • lawsuits
  • layoffs
  • legislation
  • Life-Cycle Management
  • Lipitor
  • Lucentis
  • management succession
  • Mark McClellan
  • marketing
  • Martin Mackay
  • medical devices
  • Medicare
  • Medicare Part D
  • Medimmune
  • Medtech Insight
  • Medtronic
  • Merck
  • Merck-Serono
  • mergers and acquisitions
  • Michael McCaughan
  • Millennium
  • mmm beer
  • MRI
  • multiple sclerosis
  • music
  • nanotechnology
  • NEJM
  • new drug approvals
  • new funds
  • NICE
  • NicOx
  • NIH
  • Nobel Prize
  • Novartis
  • Novo Nordisk
  • Nycomed
  • off-label promotion
  • oncology
  • ophthalmology
  • Orthopedics
  • osteoporosis
  • OTC drugs
  • Out-Partnering
  • Oxycontin
  • pain
  • Part D
  • Patient Advocacy
  • PDUFA
  • personalized medicine
  • Pfizer
  • pharmacy benefits
  • PhRMA
  • politics
  • poll results
  • PR
  • prasugrel
  • Presidential Election
  • Press Release of the Week
  • Primary Care
  • private equity
  • Procter and Gamble
  • PSA
  • Purdue Pharma
  • rare diseases
  • reimbursement
  • research and development productivity
  • research and development strategies
  • reverse mergers
  • rimonabant
  • RiskMAP
  • RNAi
  • Roche
  • Roger Longman
  • royalties
  • sales forces
  • Sanofi-aventis
  • Schering-Plough
  • Science Matters
  • Sepracor
  • shameless self-promotion
  • share buybacks
  • Shire
  • Sirtris
  • Smith and Nephew
  • Solvay
  • SPACs
  • spec pharma
  • spin-outs
  • sports
  • Start-Up
  • statins
  • Steve Nissen
  • Stryker
  • Supreme Court
  • Takeda
  • Teva
  • Thanksgiving
  • The RPM Report
  • UCB
  • vaccines
  • Velcade
  • Ventana
  • venture capital
  • venture debt
  • Venture Round
  • Vertex
  • Vioxx
  • Vytorin
  • Wacky World of Generics
  • While You Were ...
  • Wyeth
  • Zetia
  • Zimmer
  • ZymoGenetics

Blog Archive

  • ►  2008 (76)
    • ►  February (25)
    • ►  January (51)
  • ▼  2007 (329)
    • ►  December (32)
    • ►  November (42)
    • ►  October (37)
    • ▼  September (33)
      • Co-promotes: No Longer Biotech’s Holy Grail
      • Ortho Settlement Doesn't Settle Everything
      • Another Look at Asia
      • What About Specialty?
      • PSA Day 2: Buying into Biologics
      • Smaller Big Pharma and the Hybrid Future
      • How to Improve Drug Development? Fail Fast!
      • Merck: Embracing Externalization, From the Top Down
      • IPOs: Just Another Facet of the M&A Auction
      • Can't Keep Quiet About This
      • While You Were Packing for New York
      • Strange Bedfellows: Novartis Marries VC & Business...
      • Going, Going.....Google
      • The Right Kind of FDA Defense
      • Shire's Portfolio Solution
      • FDARA: Changing Drug Development in the Guise of S...
      • Sofinnova Partners Talks China
      • The Next Big Thing...
      • Can a Sleep Drug Awaken Demand from European Consu...
      • A New VC On The Block. Finally!
      • While You Were in Italy
      • EPO’s Future Back in FDA’s Hands
      • Third Rock Ready To Roll
      • More Bad News Coming on Avandia
      • Who's Sorry Now? Big Pharma Edition
      • Big Pharma: Beware the Coupon Clippers
      • While You Were Finally Watching Some Football
      • Buyer’s Remorse: No Love for Medicare Part D on th...
      • Why Financiers Like Virtual Companies
      • The Cost of FDA's Credibility Gap
      • EPO Fatigue: Amgen Hopes History Doesn’t Repeat It...
      • Science Matters: A small personalized medicine bai...
      • While You Weren't Working
    • ►  August (29)
    • ►  July (39)
    • ►  June (39)
    • ►  May (43)
    • ►  April (16)
    • ►  March (13)
    • ►  February (5)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2006 (8)
    • ►  December (3)
    • ►  November (5)
Powered by Blogger.

About Me

Unknown
View my complete profile