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• Construction of a new pharmaceutical plant started in Vorsino Industrial Park

  01 June 2017 GMP News

  

  On May 30, Vorsino Industrial Park in the Kaluga region hosted an official ceremony to mark the start of construction of an advanced biopharmaceutical production facility owned by NovaMedica LLC (a RUSNANO investment project).

• Construction of Pfizer-sponsored pharmaceutical factory starts in Russia

  31 May 2017 Construction.ru

  

  A ground-breaking ceremony of a pharmaceutical factory was held on Tuesday in Vorsino technology park located near the Russian city of Kaluga. American company Pfizer is an investor of the enterprise's building project. The main partner of the project is NovaMedica, a portfolio company of the Russian government-owned company Rusnano engaged in the development of nanotechnology.

• Russia – USA. The bilateral business interest in investment remains high.

  29 May 2017 TASS

  

  In their first talks, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and the US President Donald Trump noted the importance of restoring full-scale economic partnership, with due account of the fact that in 2016 Russian-American projects started and continued virtually across the entire economy. The numbers include the US investments in Russian export-oriented and import-substituting industries. A number of such projects began in 2016 alone, with Pfizer’s pharmaceutical factory and Novamedica Company in the Kaluga Region among them.

• US Companies in Russia Regularly Confirm Determination to Stay - Embassy

  29 May 2017 Sputnik

  

  Minister-Counselor of the Russian Embassy in the United States Denis Gonchar said in anterview with Sputnik on Monday that American companies working in Russia regularly confirm that they are not going to leave the country. One of his examples that US global pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer and Russian pharmaceutical company NovaMedica signed a strategic partnership agreement, including the construction of a manufacturing plant in the Vorsino industrial park for production of more than 30 vital medicinal products and the work of joint technical laboratories in Moscow.

• Syndax shares soar as lead drug clears a mid-stage cancer drug study hurdle

  17 May 2017 John Carroll / Endpoints News

  Briggs Morrison has good reason today to be glad he left the Big Pharma R&D world behind at AstraZeneca and switched to biotech. The CEO of Waltham, MA-based Syndax reported that the company’s lead drug in combination with Merck’s Keytruda cleared its first big hurdle in Phase II and will now transition into the second phase of the study.

• Epic Sciences nets $40M for cancer liquid biopsy

  02 May 2017 Amirah Al Idrus / FierceBiotech

  

  Epic Sciences raised $40 million in a Series D round, which it will use to ramp up clinical studies of its liquid biopsy tests that identify cancer patients who will benefit from specific treatments.

• Biopharma just can’t get enough of Epic Sciences

  02 May 2017 Juliet Preston / MedCityNews

  

  Epic Sciences has to be one of the coolest kids on the biopharma block, with a new $40 million Series D financing round, a whopping 42 industry partnerships and over 200 clinical trials in the works, all built around its novel liquid biopsy platform. For a team of just 70, the San Diego, California startup is doing pretty well.

• With $40M in New Cash, Epic Sciences Advances Diagnostic for Late-Stage Prostate Cancer

  02 May 2017 Bruce V. Bigelow / Xconomy

  

  When San Diego’s Epic Sciences raised $30 million almost three years ago, CEO Murali Prahalad told me he saw a big opportunity to use the company’s technology as a diagnostic test to assess how well a cancer patient is responding to specific anti-cancer drug regimens.

• Corneal inlays need your boost to hit their stride

  10 April 2017 John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS / Healio

  

  Recently, ReVision Optics announced the implantation of the 1,000th Raindrop corneal inlay in the United States since its approval last August. The AcuFocus Kamra corneal inlay, which was approved earlier, has now reached nearly 4,000 U.S. implants, according to a source at the company.

• New help for that bane of middle-age: blurry close-up vision

  07 March 2017 Lauran Neergaad, AP Medical Writer / Associated Press

  

  Squinting while texting? Always losing your reading glasses? An eye implant that takes about 10 minutes to put in place is the newest in a list of surgical repairs for the blurry close-up vision that is a bane of middle age. But who's really a good candidate to toss their specs?