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  • Dr. Rao Vadlamudi, President of Indian Pharmaceutical Association (IPA), has been elected as President of Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (CPA) for the year 2017-19 at CPA Conference held at Hyatt Regency, Sydney, Australia from 28 - 30, July 2017. Dr. Rao Vadlamudi is the second Indian professional to be elected as CPA President after a gap of 30 years.

  • Anthera Pharmaceuticals announced that blisibimod has received orphan drug designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of Immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN).  Blisibimod targets B-cell activating factor, or BAFF, which has been shown to be elevated in a variety of B-cell mediated autoimmune diseases, including IgAN, systemic lupus erythematosus, and others.

  • Sun Pharma to aquire US based Krystal Biotech in 7 million USD. Krystal Biotech is a biopharmaceutical company using gene therapy to develop treatments for patients suffering from rare debilitating disorders.

  • Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) emphasize on GMP and GLP compliance to pharmaceutical manufacturers. But it seems like pharma manufacturers are not serious about implementation of GMP and GLP for their manufacturing plants. Before one year, CDSCO asked manufacturers to carry out an assessment of their units and assign themselves quality ratings but so far Indian pharma manufacturers have not submitted self-inspection reports.

  • AstraZeneca and its hematology research and development center of excellence, Acerta Pharma, today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation for acalabrutinib for the treatment of patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) who have received at least one prior therapy. Acalabrutinib is an investigational, highly selective, potent Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor in development for the treatment of multiple B-cell cancers.

  • RedHill Biopharma Ltd a specialty biopharmaceutical company primarily focused on late clinical-stage development and commercialization of proprietary, orally-administered, small molecule drugs for gastrointestinal and inflammatory diseases and cancer, reported, following a second pre-planned meeting to assess the safety and efficacy data from its ongoing first Phase III study with RHB-104 for Crohn’s disease (the MAP US study) by an independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB), that it has received a unanimous positive recommendation from the DSMB to continue the study as planned.

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