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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).
25 September 2014 | By AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca announced that MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, and Cancer Research UK, with its commercial arm, Cancer Research Technology (CRT), have entered into an innovative collaboration to establish a joint laboratory in Cambridge, UK...
23 September 2014 | By GlobalData
Eli Lilly’s recent partnership with AstraZeneca to develop oral beta-secretase cleaving enzyme (BACE) inhibitor AZD3293 for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a positive step forward for this challenging treatment market, says an analyst with research and consulting firm GlobalData...
17 September 2014 | By AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca announced that the US Food and Drug Administration approved MOVANTIK™ (naloxegol) tablets C-II as the first once-daily oral peripherally-acting mu-opioid receptor antagonist (PAMORA) medication for the treatment of opioid-induced constipation (OIC), in adult patients with chronic, non-cancer pain...
8 September 2014 | By AstraZeneca
Results are among key AstraZeneca respiratory data being presented at 2014 European Respiratory Society International Congress...
3 September 2014 | By Teva
Court decision invalidating AZ's patent supports Teva’s launch of DuoResp Spiromax® in UK...
1 September 2014 | By AstraZeneca
Results are in line with new ESC/EACTS 2014 Guidelines on Myocardial Revascularisation which give a class I recommendation to start dual antiplatelet therapy in STEMI patients at first medical contact...
26 August 2014 | By AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca announced that it has entered into a collaboration with gene sequencing company, Illumina, Inc., to develop its next generation sequencing platform for companion diagnostic tests applicable across AstraZeneca’s oncology portfolio...
19 August 2014 | By AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca announced positive top-line results from RECLAIM-1 and RECLAIM-2, the pivotal Phase III studies investigating the potential of the antibiotic ceftazidime-avibactam (CAZ-AVI) as a treatment for hospitalised adult patients with complicated intra-abdominal infections...
14 August 2014 | By AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca announced the start of the Phase III programme for tralokinumab, a potential treatment for patients with severe, inadequately controlled asthma, developed by MedImmune, the company’s global biologics research and development arm...
14 August 2014 | By AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca announced positive top-line results from CLEAR1, CLEAR2 and CRYSTAL, the pivotal Phase III clinical trials investigating the potential of lesinurad...
30 July 2014 | By AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca announced that it has entered an agreement to transfer to the company the rights to Almirall’s respiratory franchise for an initial consideration of $875 million on completion...
28 July 2014 | By AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca announced it has entered into collaboration with Roche to develop a plasma-based companion diagnostic test to support AZD9291...
22 July 2014 | By AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca announced that MedImmune has entered into a clinical trial collaboration with Advaxis, Inc., a US-based biotechnology company developing cancer immunotherapies...
18 July 2014 | By AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca revealed the proposed designs for its new Global R&D Centre and Corporate Headquarters in Cambridge in the UK...
26 June 2014 | By AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 11 to 2 that current evidence from clinical studies does not support an accelerated approval for use of olaparib...
