Luitpold Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a New York based U.S. Company of Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. (Corporate Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan) and PharmaForce, Inc., (Columbus, Ohio, USA), a privately-held fullyintegrated specialty injectable pharmaceutical company, announced today that PharmaForce has been acquired by Luitpold.

Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONXX) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Proteolix, Inc., a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel therapies that target the proteasome for the treatment of hematological malignancies and solid tumors.

Forest Laboratories (NYSE:FRX) and AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN) have entered into a definitive collaboration agreement to co-develop and commercialize ceftaroline in all markets outside the United States, Canada and Japan. Ceftaroline is Forest's late stage, next generation cephalosporin being investigated for the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections (cSSSI) and community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP).

Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP) has announced a license agreement between Nobilon, Schering-Plough's human vaccine business unit, and the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide access to pandemic influenza vaccine manufacturing technology to developing countries.

The life science industry increasingly demands for Europe-wide transport solutions which are able to guarantee product integrity. Being able to offer this, strengthens a global market position. Thus, DHL Freight has been developing the unique DHL COLDCHAIN network.

Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc. and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) today announced the initiation of a worldwide collaborative research and license agreement. The collaboration will focus on the discovery of antibody targets and novel therapeutic protein products to treat certain areas of cancer and diabetes.

Grindeks JSC is expanding its activities in the former soviet republics members of Commonwealth of Independent States by opening new representative office in Uzbekistan. The new representative office will have been cooperating with medicines administrating state authorities, Uzbekistan's companies engaged in pharmaceutical and medicinal products wholesale and retail business, as well as providing drug registration processes and medicaments marketing.