BioScience turnaround on track

When AltX listed pharmaceutical and wellness stock Bioscience Brands was re-listed, we at ManufacturingHub.co.za were quite upbeat on its prospects. We retain this confidence in the overall offering.
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BASF to showcase Biopharmaceutic and Pharmaceutical Technology in Malta

BASF is to showcase its wide product range of innovative excipients at the  7th World Meeting on Pharmaceutics, Biopharmaceutic and Pharmaceutical Technology from March 8 -11, 2010, in La Valetta, Malta. With two new products, Soluplus® and Kollicoat® IR Coating Systems, BASF has broadened its extensive portfolio for customers of the pharma industry again.
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SA businesses shine for Aspen

JSE listed Aspen (Apn), Africa’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturer, has recorded strong returns for the six months ended 31 December 2009. The excellent performance from the South Africa business underpinned the results.
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CSIR brings once-a-week treatment of TB one step closer

Researchers at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) are one step closer to providing Tuberculosis (TB) sufferers with a once-a-week medicinal regime rather than their current daily doses.  Read More

Aspen announces $1m technology transfer

Eli Lilly today announced the US$1 million milestone payment to Aspen, South Africa¹s leading pharmaceutical manufacturer, as part of the joint collaboration on expanding access to medicines to treat multi drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).

The milestone is part of a Transfer of Technology agreement between Aspen  and Lilly, initiated in 2003 under the umbrella of the Lilly MDR-TB Partnership, a global project to tackle the growing MDR-TB epidemic.

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Launch of the MRC National Collaborative Research Programme on Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases

As we face a growing epidemic around heart disease, diabetes and stroke and other non-communicable diseases in South Africa researchers and scientists have converged in Cape Town to find new health research solutions.
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New pharma packaging product from BASF

A new plastic film, for which a patent has been applied, will protect BASF’s pharmaceutical excipient polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) in future even better against the penetration of atmospheric oxygen and thus against oxidation. “With this, BASF will be able to offer its customers in the pharmaceutical industry an even higher product quality and, as a result, improved patient safety,” says Dr. Boris Jenniches from BASF’s global Business Management PVP.
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Frost & Sullivan Award caps successful month for Cipla Medpro South Africa

News of the award came on the back of Cipla securing new first time government tenders valued at nearly R100 million over two years, the company achieving year to date sales of R1 billion as at the end of October 2009, and the finalization of plans to bring 20 oncology drugs to market in the new year.
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Process development provider appointed for CSIR’s anti-rabies antibody

Kentucky BioProcessing has signed an agreement with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to develop a commercially efficient process for RabiVirTM, the CSIR’s award-winning anti-rabies antibody developed in a start-up venture with GreenPharmTM.
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Aspen CEO re-assures on quality of S26 baby product

A message from Aspen Group Chief Executive, Stephen Saad, to the mothers of South Africa’s babies:
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