drug patents

    By Melly Alazraki

    | 9:45AM 8/27/2010
    The FDA denied accelerated approval of Roche's trastuzumab-DM1 (T-DM1) license application. T-DM1 is a potential breast cancer treatment. Roche will continue with its trials and plans a global regulatory submission in mid-2012.

    By Melly Alazraki

    | 5:30PM 8/10/2009
    The pharmaceutical industry had entered a long slowdown that is supposed to culminate in 2012-2013, when the industry reaches a patent expiration cliff. Up until recently, it didn't look like the new drug pipeline was going to replace the losses from the patent expiration and the increased generic...