Drugs chief replaces long-serving CEO Vasella
New CEO says to maintain strategy
* Considers bid for Alcon minorities as fair
* Q4 net profit $2.3 billion vs forecast $2.4 billion
* Shares up 1.5 percent
Title: French Bio Beach January 26th Event: “Development of Toxicology / Ecotoxicology: New European Regulations, New Business Opportunities” Location: The Salk Institute for Biological StudiesRegistration Page: Click hereDescription: We are pleased to remind you that a Life Science Conference dedicated to new business opportunities in toxicology and ecotoxicology will be held on January 26th 2010 [...]
PARIS (Reuters) – Sanofi-Aventis is to buy U.S. consumer healthcare group Chattem Inc for around $1.9 billion, in a deal which will give the French drugmaker over-the-counter presence in the huge United States market.
Deals
Sanofi said it would start a tender offer for all of Chattem’s shares at $93.50 per share, a premium of 34 percent [...]
The scientists made the breakthrough by creating a patch of human skin on a mouse's back using stem cells — cells which have the ability to develop into any human cell.
via French scientists create skin fast from stem cells | Reuters.
Algae-Based Fuel Endorsed with $100 Million in Federal Funds
SAN DIEGO, CA, December 4, 2009 – Sapphire Energy, the leader in algae-based fuel technology, today received another big boost for its groundbreaking energy work. Sapphire was awarded nearly $104.5 million as part of President Obama’s American Recovery and Investment Act and the Biorefinery Assistance Program, authorized [...]
Title: Monday Dec 7th 2009 – Biotech Display / Networking Event with Lyonbiopole: “A Window into Lyon Life Science Companies” and Holiday Networking
Location: The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037Link out: Click here
”Lyonbiopole”, the French center of excellence in vaccines and diagnostics, is coming to the Bay [...]
Title: 2009/11/09 – Joint Business Mixer with the San Diego French American Chamber of CommerceLocation: The French GourmetLink out: Click hereDescription: This casual event is co-hosted by the two French business oriented organizations based in San Diego: French BioBeach and the San Diego french American Chamber of Commerce. Our speakers will present their cursus and [...]
Vical’s Vaxfectin(R) Adjuvant Drives 200-Fold Increase in Antibody Responses
With Sanofi-Pasteur Fluzone(R) Seasonal Influenza Vaccine
Vical’s Vaxfectin(R) Adjuvant Drives 200-Fold Increase in Antibody Responses
With Sanofi-Pasteur Fluzone(R) Seasonal Influenza Vaccine
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 26, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Vical Incorporated (Nasdaq:VICL)
announced today the publication of two articles regarding the company’s
Vaxfectin(R) adjuvant in a special issue of Vaccine.(1,2) One article
highlighted [...]
SAN DIEGO —- Biotech’s golden allure is mostly tarnished for investors, who have crammed into the technology sector chasing after the Apples and Googles. But there are some signs of a modest turnaround, experts said Monday at a life sciences investors conference.
Biotech companies will have to squeeze to make every dollar count, and more mergers [...]
SAN DIEGO — Nobody can say this America’s Cup is boring.
What used to be an insulated sport for fabulously wealthy men named Lipton and Vanderbilt has morphed into something out of a James Bond movie or a Tom Clancy novel, all wrapped up in two of the fastest, most-extreme boats ever to cut through – [...]
