The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation has awarded three new grants to improve prevention, diagnosis and care of hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV) in China and India as part of its Delivering Hope™: Awareness, Prevention and Care umbrella program which is committed to reducing hepatitis-related health disparities in Asia.

GlaxoSmithKline has submitted regulatory applications in Europe and the US related to Tykerb/ Tyverb (lapatinib) and its use in combination with trastuzumab to treat patients with HER2 (ErbB2)-positive metastatic breast cancer.

UCB intends to submit regulatory applications for Cimzia® (certolizumab pegol) in psoriatic arthritis, by end of 2012. Top-line results from the RAPID-PsA™ phase 3 study evaluating the efficacy and safety of Cimzia® in patients with adult onset active psoriatic arthritis (PsA) demonstrated a clinically relevant and statistically significant improvement.

Merck (NYSE:MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, has announced the formation of a new joint venture (JV) with Supera Farma Laboratorios S.A., a Brazilian pharmaceutical company co-owned by Cristália and Eurofarma.

Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) has released its most comprehensive corporate responsibility report using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework, which is designed to help companies report on economic, environmental and social performance.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) announced today the successful completion of the tender offer by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company ("Bristol-Myers") for all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Inhibitex, Inc. (NASDAQ: INHX) ("Inhibitex") at a purchase price of $26.00 per share.

Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the company's Biologics License Application for pertuzumab and granted Priority Review.