AstraZeneca counts on robots to speed search
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The London-based drugmaker AstraZeneca P.L.C. has opened a fifth new building in Delaware that is robotic, fully automated chemical compound management and storage facility, which helps in speeding discovery of innovative medicines. It has invested $500 million on 170 acres and developed two million square feet of office and laboratory space at Concord Pike and Route 141 in Fairfax outside Wilmington.
Publication Name: Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
Subject: Business, regional
ISSN: 0885-6613
Year: 2004
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Glaxo flu vaccine is offered to FDA: The drug maker is seeking speedy approval for selling its Fluarix in the U.S. to help with the expected shortage
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GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C. is in talks with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about selling its Fluarix influenza vaccine in the US in 2004, as there is an expected flu-vaccine shortage. Glaxo is exploring ways to supply doses and is working on a long-term plan to increase production as its main flu-vaccine-manufacturing plant in Dresden.
Publication Name: Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
Subject: Business, regional
ISSN: 0885-6613
Year: 2004
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AstraZeneca will delay drug: It said more testing was needed for Galida, a diabetes medication. The news disappointed investors
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AstraZeneca P.L.C., Almond based drug company announced that the regulatory filing of Galida, which is a late-stage diabetes medicine will be delayed till 2007 for further test. The delay resulted as the United States regulators called for a worldwide regulatory-authority review of the safety and toxicology of Galida.
Publication Name: Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
Subject: Business, regional
ISSN: 0885-6613
Year: 2004
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