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BioAlliance Pharma Establishes Sales and Marketing Subsidiary to Prepare for Loramyc Launch
May 3rd 2006Paris, May 3, 2006– BioAlliance Pharma SA (Euronext Paris: BIO), an emerging specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development of innovative therapeutics targeting drug resistance in cancer, HIV, and severe and opportunistic infections, announced today that its new, wholly owned sales and marketing subsidiary, Laboratoires BioAlliance Pharma SAS, has begun formal operations. Laboratoires BioAlliance Pharma will be responsible for all BioAlliance sales and marketing activities, initially focused on the launch of the company's first product Loramyc(R), for treatment of oropharyngeal candidiasis, an oral fungus found in association with immune compromised patients. Following regulatory approval expected in late 2006, the product will be launched first in France, followed by additional launches in other selected European countries as approvals are obtained under the mutual recognition procedure. The company filed for Loramyc marketing authorization approval (MAA) in September 2005. The new subsidiary will be headed by BioAlliance Pharma CEO, Dominique Costantini, MD. Florence Dupr?, vice president of sales and marketing and Alain Maquin, Head Pharmacist are the other directors.
ACRS and DCI Merge to Form New eCRO Services Provider
May 2nd 2006ACRS and DCI Merge to Form New eCRO Services Provider ??? BANNOCKBURN, Ill. and MARIETTA, Ga., May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Clinical Research Services, LLC (ACRS) and Data Capture International, Inc. (DCI) announced their recent merger to offer eCRO services - enhanced biometrics services using technology enabled tools and platforms - to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies that are performing clinical trials to meet regulatory submission requirements for the US Food and Drug Administration and other global agencies. ACRS has provided clinical data management services since 1994 and has built an exceptional reputation for quality and customer service. The company's clinical data management system (CDMS) is built on an Oracle Clinical(R) platform, and has been used in providing services for more than two-hundred clinical trials in nine therapeutic areas. ACRS's client base includes large and small pharmaceutical firms as well as biotechnology companies. DCI, founded in 2002, is an Application Service Provider that offers Electronic Data Capture (EDC) software solutions and services to pharmaceutical companies and Contract Research Organizations that perform early stage human clinical trials. With the SureLynx(TM) technology platform, DCI is becoming a recognized leader as a provider of technology enhanced clinical data management solutions.
Genzyme Pharmaceuticals and Brookwood Pharmaceuticals Enter Collaboration Delivery
May 1st 2006Genzyme Pharmaceuticals, a business unit of Genzyme Corporation, and Brookwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today announced a broad collaboration to develop novel drug delivery solutions, with an initial focus on peptide delivery.
