Lebanon

UK R&D firm Futura Medical strikes third commercial agreement for its drug-free erectile dysfunction treatment MED3000, this time with Switzerland’s Labatec Pharma, which will take the drug-free gel to the Middle East. 

Saudi Arabia is set to introduce a new pricing policy that will affect the rest of the region.

The International Medical Devices Database from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – an output of ICIJ's recent string of "Implant Files" stories that were critical of industry – offers information on more than 700,000 device recalls, field safety notices and safety alerts documented in 11 countries. While device-makers and shrewd consumers will discover a bevy of useful data in the public repository, it could prove confusing for laypeople. A recalls expert and an ex-FDA official weigh in.

OTC drug, personal care product and nutritional supplement trademark filings compiled by “The Tan Sheet” from Official Gazette of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Class 3 – Cosmetics and Cleaning Preps; and Class 5 – Pharmaceuticals.

What's old is new again as San Diego-based Denovo Biopharma has licensed a second failed Eli Lilly drug and Celimmune in Lebanon, New Jersey has licensed a monoclonal antibody that's been sitting on Amgen's shelf since 2008.

OTC drug, personal care product and nutritional supplement trademark filings compiled by “The Tan Sheet” from Official Gazette of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Class 3 – Cosmetics and Cleaning Preps; and Class 5 – Pharmaceuticals.

OTC drug, personal care product and nutritional supplement trademark filings compiled by “The Tan Sheet” from Official Gazette of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Class 3 – Cosmetics and Cleaning Preps; and Class 5 – Pharmaceuticals.

OTC drug, personal care product and nutritional supplement trademark filings compiled by “The Tan Sheet” from Official Gazette of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Class 3 – Cosmetics and Cleaning Preps; and Class 5 – Pharmaceuticals.

Incyte will pay Agenus $60m up front and $350m in development, regulatory and commercial milestone fees to license the Retrocyte Display antibody discovery platform for the development of novel immunotherapies. The upfront fee is comprised of a $25m technology and program access fee as well as a $35m equity investment at $4.51 per share.

“The Tan Sheet” readers also made top stories of FDA’s rejection of Bayer’s petition for aspirin as primary prevention of heart attack stroke; advisors recommending FDA consider additional label warnings for OTC NSAIDS; and FDA seeking to overhaul its OTC drug monograph process to be “more agile and responsive.”