All news articles for January 2019

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Roche Alzheimer’s drug suffers trial failure

By Ben Hargreaves

In another blow to discovering a treatment for Alzheimer’s, Roche revealed that preliminary data from two clinical trials meant it was cancelling studies using crenezumab.

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Biologics CDMO buys Shire Massachusetts facility

By Staff Reporter

Rentschler Biopharma will buy Shire’s development and manufacturing facility in Milton, Massachusetts, where the latter makes haemophilia A product, Obizur, for commercial production.