Interest heats up in gastrointestinal space
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Many drug development firms in 2006 are placing bets that irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a widely prevalent yet poorly understood condition, would become a large, multibillion-dollar revenue opportunity. On a more limited scale, developers of anti-inflammatory biologics are hoping to emulate and extend the initial success of Centorcor's Remicade (infiximab) in treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), particularly Crohn disease.
Publication Name: Nature Biotechnology
Subject: Business
ISSN: 1087-0156
Year: 2006
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EU to review rare disease drugs market exclusivity
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Biotech companies that base their business strategy on orphan drug development report for orphan drug pricing are bracing the European Commission (EC). A study is being reviewed on the first eleven orphaned drugs allowed in the European Union.
Publication Name: Nature Biotechnology
Subject: Business
ISSN: 1087-0156
Year: 2004
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Positive clinical data in Parkinson's and ischemia buoy gene therapy
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Introgen Therapeutics has developed Gene therapies based on the positive clinical data in Parkinson's and ischemia.
Publication Name: Nature Biotechnology
Subject: Business
ISSN: 1087-0156
Year: 2007
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