37 Current news from france
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02-10-2009
France Biotech has reported a major drop in equity investments in French biotech companies: funding fell by 79% in 2008, relative to 2007 (€143 million in 2008 versus €694 million in 2007). Investment in listed companies collapsed (only €12 million in 2008 - a fall of 98%). Venture capital ...
01-22-2009
Powder Systems Limited (PSL) announced the opening of a new Central European office in Lyon, France. With established centres in PSL USA, PSL Japan and PSL UK, the addition of the French location creates a central European hub from which to support growth within the European pharmaceutical ...
01-05-2009
Chiral Technologies Europe (CTE), a wholly owned subsidiary of DAICEL Chemical Industries, Ltd, announced the acquisition of ChromTech Ltd, of Congleton, U.K. According to the company, the two companies’ combined product lines of enantioselective chromatography columns will provide a ...
12-04-2008
Following several months’ work on this project, Arkema’s teams have achieved the pre-registration of 470 substances concerned by the Reach regulation with the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). According to the company, Arkema has endorsed the objectives of Reach from the very beginning, in ...
Custom Chiral Separation Using Preparative Chromatography Eases and Speeds up Process Development; Rapidly and Efficiently Producing the Required Amount of Compounds for Early Development Phases While Being Cost Efficient at Industrial Scale
09-30-2008
Novasep has recently added a state-of-the-art cGMP pilot scale continuous chromatography unit in its Chasse sur Rhône (France) facility. This ensures cost efficient separations of kilograms to tens of kilograms of pure enantiomer for clinical supplies. Novasep operates six FDA-inspected ...
09-29-2008
bioMérieux has signed a license and development agreement with the German biotechnology company, ProteoSys, for Annexin 3, which will be used to develop a urine-based, confirmatory diagnostic test for prostate cancer. After a research phase, the new test should be developed on the VIDAS® ...
09-08-2008
The sanofi-aventis Central Anti-Counterfeit Laboratory was officially inaugurated at the Tours pharmaceutical plant (in the Department of Indre-et-Loire, France) by Hervé Novelli, Minister of State to the Minister for the Economy, Industry and Employment with responsibility for Business, ...
