Shire
Shire enables people with life-altering conditions to lead better lives.
Our strategy is to focus on developing and marketing innovative specialty medicines to meet significant unmet patient needs.
We focus on providing treatments in Rare Diseases, Neuroscience, Gastrointestinal and Internal Medicine and are developing treatments for symptomatic conditions treated by specialist physicians in other targeted therapeutic areas, such as Ophthalmics.
Business & Industry
- Pfizer to supply Global Fund up to 6 million PAXLOVID™ treatment courses for low-and-middle-income countries
- WHO grants prequalification to GSK's Mosquirix - the first and only approved malaria vaccine
- Pfizer and BioNTech receive positive CHMP opinion for Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster in European Union
- Novartis invests in early technical development capabilities for next-generation biotherapeutics
- FDA grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation to Pfizer's Group B Streptococcus vaccine candidate
Research & Development
- Breakthrough brings potential glioblastoma drug into focus
- Similar medications cost more for humans compared to pets
- National CDC-funded study confirms that mRNA vaccines protect against serious COVID-19 during pregnancy
- 2nd Annual Next Generation Pharmaceutical Cleanrooms Conference
- Shutting down backup genes leads to cancer remission in mice
- Bird's enzyme points toward novel therapies
- WHO strongly advises against antibody treatments for COVID-19 patients
Conferences & Events
- Machine learning creates opportunity for new personalized therapies
- SAE Media Group proudly presents the 2nd Annual Aseptic Processing Conference
- Pharma join together to achieve new standards in digital and patient innovation for clinical transformation
- SMi's 22nd Annual Pain Therapeutics Conference
- SMi Group Introduces the 4th Annual Injectable Drug Delivery Conference 2022
- SMi's 5th Annual Pharmaceutical Microbiology East Coast Conference
- SMi's 3rd Annual AI in Drug Discovery Conference
Regulatory Affairs
- FDA approves first treatment for Acid Sphingomyelinase Deficiency, a rare genetic disease
- FDA approves first systemic treatment for alopecia areata
- FDA urges drug manufacturers to develop risk management plans to promote a dtronger, resilient drug supply chain
- FDA limits use of Janssen COVID-19 vaccine to certain individuals
- EMA establishes Cancer Medicines Forum with academia to optimise cancer treatments in clinical practice