/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ en-us derek-lowe@sbcglobal.net 2010-03-17T09:42:30-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/03/17/theft_at_eli_lilly.php $75 million dollars worth of antipsychotics - that's a lot of pills, and I'm not surprised to see that the thieves used a tractor-trailer to haul everything off. You'd have to assume that there's a well-worked-out pathway to unload all... 74343@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2010-03-17T09:42:30-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/16/pharma_and_the_health_care_bill_value_for_the_money.php I hesitate to open up the whole topic of health care reform again. (For the record, I think that the bills, in their current forms, are dead). But one thing that struck me was how early the pharma industry trade... 74280@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Regulatory Affairs 2010-02-16T09:23:15-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/11/sanofiaventis_cuts_back.php The company says that it cut 7% out of the R&D budget last year, and looks to keep on this same path this year. And that goes for merger and acquisition activity, although they seem to be staying away from... 74274@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Business and Markets 2010-02-11T11:00:23-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/04/heres_a_business_plan_for_you.php On another front, we now have an ex-BMS associate scientist who's apparently been arrested for stealing company materials in preparation for starting his own company back in India. I presume he was planning to get into the advanced pharmaceutical intermediates... 74264@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Dark Side 2010-02-04T13:23:49-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/04/gsk_day.php I'll start a post here so those with details on today's GlaxoSmithKline news can leave comments. I assume we'll be hearing from the UK folks shortly, and the US more in the middle of the day. I also wonder if... 74262@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2010-02-04T07:17:28-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/01/28/a_scorchedearth_policy_at_wyeths_princeton_site.php This information comes to me secondhand, so I'm not sure how accurate it is. I hope it turns out not to be true. A correspondent writes to me that he's spoken this week to someone who had recently been at... 74247@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2010-01-28T11:24:33-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/12/22/ge_healthcares_idiotic_libel_suit.php Courtesy of Pharmalot (and my mail!), I note this alarming story from London. GE Healthcare makes a medical NMR contrast agent, a gadolinium complex marketed under the name of Omniscan. (They picked it up when they bought Amersham a few... 74192@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2009-12-22T10:49:44-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/12/07/once_you_have_paid_him_the_danegeld_.php . . .you never get rid of the Dane. (The rest of the poem, if you haven't come across it.)... 74170@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2009-12-07T08:57:14-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/12/01/climategate_and_scientific_conduct.php Everyone has heard about the "Climategate" scandal by now. Someone leaked hundreds of megabytes of information from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, and the material (which appears to be authentic) is most interesting. I'm not actually going... 74165@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ General Scientific News 2009-12-01T07:46:18-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/11/17/warren_delano.php I've been remiss in not mentioning this, but I just found out recently that Warren DeLano (the man behind the excellent open-source PyMOL program) passed away suddenly earlier this month. He was 37 - another unfortunate loss of a scientist... 74144@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2009-11-17T08:35:49-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/11/13/prof_keith_fagnou.php As many readers may have heard by now, Keith Fagnou of the University of Ottawa has suddenly died from what appears to be H1N1 influenza. I'm awaiting confirmation of that diagnosis, which is worrisome for all sorts of other reasons,... 74142@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2009-11-13T11:12:38-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/11/11/against_panic.php With the waves of layoffs going on, and all the nasty structural changes we're seeing in this business, it's easy to start feeling a toxic combination of fear and despair. And while I understand that, I'm going to try to... 74137@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Business and Markets 2009-11-11T12:24:43-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/10/07/a_nobel_for_ribosome_structure.php This was another Biology-for-Chemistry year for the Nobel Committee. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Cambridge), Thomas Steitz (Yale) and Ada Yonath (Weizmann Inst.) have won for X-ray crystallographic studies of the ribosome. Ribosomes are indeed significant, to put it lightly. For those outside... 74087@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Biological News 2009-10-07T07:36:09-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/10/05/a_nobel_for_telomerase.php As many had expected, a Nobel Prize has been awarded to Elizabeth Blackburn (of UCSF), Carol Greider (of Johns Hopkins), and Jack Szostak (of Harvard Medical School/Howard Hughes Inst.) for their work on telomerase. Blackburn had been studying telomeres since... 74085@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Biological News 2009-10-05T09:32:36-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/09/25/the_details_of_the_baucus_bill.php Since we were discussing the Baucus health care proposal here the other day, I thought that people would appreciate a chance to read through the provisions of the bill before forming an opinion of it. Sorry! You can't. It's not... 74076@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Regulatory Affairs 2009-09-25T12:16:18-05:00