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AstraZeneca plc is an Anglo–Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company.
In 2013, it moved its headquarters to Cambridge, United Kingdom, and concentrated its R&D in three sites: Cambridge, Gaithersburg, Maryland (location of MedImmune) for work on biopharmaceuticals, and Mölndal (near Gothenburg) in Sweden, for research on traditional chemical drugs. In 2015, it was the eighth-largest drug company in the world based on sales revenue.
AstraZeneca has a portfolio of products for major disease areas including cancer, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, infection, neuroscience, respiratory and inflammation. The company was founded in 1999 through the merger of the Swedish Astra AB and the English Zeneca Group (itself formed by the demerger of the pharmaceutical operations of Imperial Chemical Industries in 1993). It has made numerous corporate acquisitions, including Cambridge Antibody Technology (in 2006), MedImmune (in 2007), Spirogen (in 2013) and Definiens (by MedImmune in 2014).
4 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued final draft guidance which says osimertinib (Tagrisso, AstraZeneca) should be made available to some people with lung cancer through the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF).
3 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
MEDI2070 is an IL-23 monoclonal antibody currently in a Phase IIb trial for Crohn’s disease (a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestines) and is...
24 August 2016 | By Pfizer
The agreement includes the rights to the newly approved EU drug zavicefta (ceftazidime-avibactam), the marketed agents merrem/meronem (meropenem) and zinforo (ceftaroline fosamil), and the clinical development assets aztreonam-avibactam (ATM-AVI) and CXL...
23 August 2016 | By AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly and Company have received US FDA Fast Track designation for the development programme in Alzheimer’s disease for AZD3293, an oral beta secretase cleaving enzyme inhibitor currently in Phase III clinical trial.
15 August 2016 | By National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
A higher dose of ticagrelor is already recommended for 12 months after a heart attack. Now new draft guidance is recommending it is continued in these people at a lower dose for a further three years to reduce their risk of a further heart attack or stroke...
9 August 2016 | By AstraZeneca
The results showed that the trial did not meet its primary endpoint of progression-free survival (PFS), and selumetinib did not have a significant effect on overall survival (OS). The adverse event profiles for selumetinib and docetaxel were consistent with those seen previously...
6 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The first subject has been dosed with immuno-oncology candidate HTL1071 in a Phase I clinical study, triggering a US$10 million payment to Heptares...
1 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
AstraZeneca has entered into an agreement with LEO Pharma for the global licence to tralokinumab in skin diseases.
28 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The EC has granted marketing authorisation for Zavicefta for the treatment of patients with serious Gram-negative bacterial infections...
20 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
A Phase II expansion of the ongoing TATTON trial has been initiated to evaluate savolitinib (AZD6094) in epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients.
9 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
AGI is to acquire the rights, outside the US, to AstraZeneca’s portfolio of anaesthetics for an upfront consideration of $520 million...
2 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Grünenthal has entered into a licensing agreement with AstraZeneca for the exclusive rights to Zurampic (lesinurad) in Europe and Latin America...
27 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The Phase III FALCON trial compared Faslodex to Arimidex for the treatment of locally-advanced or metastatic breast cancer, in post-menopausal women...
12 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The FDA has granted Orphan Drug Designation for selumetinib for adjuvant treatment of patients with stage III or IV differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC)...
In this Mass Spectrometry In-Depth Focus: Novel trends in glycosylation analysis of biotherapeutics by mass spectrometry; The use of mass spectrometry for the characterisation of proteins in small molecule drug discovery; Mass Spectrometry Q&A...
