Bayer
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, agriculture and high-tech polymer materials. As an innovation company, it sets trends in research-intensive areas. Bayer's products and services are designed to benefit people and improve their quality of life. At the same time, the Group aims to create value through innovation, growth and high earning power. Bayer is committed to the principles of sustainable development and to its social and ethical responsibilities as a corporate citizen. In fiscal 2014, the Group employed 118,900 people and had sales of EUR 42.2 billion. Capital expenditures amounted to EUR 2.5 billion, R&D expenses to EUR 3.6 billion.
Business & Industry
- GSK and Vir Biotechnology enter collaboration to find coronavirus solutions
- Novartis announces plan to initiate clinical study of Jakavi® in severe COVID-19 patients and establish international compassionate use program
- Amgen and Adaptive Biotechnologies announce strategic partnership to develop a therapeutic to prevent or treat COVID-19
- First patient outside U.S. treated in global Kevzara® (sarilumab) clinical trial program for patients with severe COVID-19
- Consignment of 30 million hydroxychloroquine tablets ships to US Department of Health and Human Services
Research & Development
- COVID-19 drug lead treatments identified
- Potential harms of chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for treating COVID-19
- Lancaster academic sees positives in first published clinical trial of COVID-19 treatment
- Trial drug can significantly block early stages of COVID-19 in engineered human tissues
- Possible coronavirus drug identified by Australian scientists
- Clues to COVID-19 coronavirus's vulnerability emerge from an antibody against SARS
- New guidelines on caring for ICU patients with COVID-19
Conferences & Events
- Pre-Filled Syringes West Coast 2021
- Pre-Filled Syringes East Coast Conference 2020
- SMi's 4th Annual Pharmaceutical Microbiology West Coast
- SMi's 20th Annual Pain Therapeutics Conference 2020
- SMi's 3rd Annual Pharmaceutical Microbiology East Coast
- SMi's 22nd Annual Superbugs & Superdrugs Conference 2020
- SMi Presents the 3rd Annual Conference: Injectable Drug Delivery 2020
Regulatory Affairs
- FDA Coordinates National Effort to Develop Blood-Related Therapies for COVID-19
- FDA Continues to Accelerate Development of Novel Therapies for COVID-19
- The FDA is facilitating access to convalescent plasma collected from recovered COVID-19 patients
- FDA continues to facilitate development of COVID-19 treatments
- FDA and FTC warn seven companies selling fraudulent products that claim to treat or prevent COVID-19