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View Article  All The Wrong Numbers
Thursday, Amgen shares surged 5% as advisers told the Food and Drug Administration to warn patients not to use the company's top-selling anemia drug for head and neck cancer, breast cancer or in any case where patients might be cured of their cancer by chemotherapy.

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View Article  Future Technology Needs for Biomanufacturing: Special Session at IFPAC 2008 Identifies Goals and Gaps
“We need to improve our ability to measure protein variants in real time and understand how to correlate to biological significance,” commented Duncan Low, PhD, scientific executive director at Amgen, in a January 28 presentation at the IFPAC 2008 meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. Low’s talk was part of a special...

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BioPharm International -- Advanstar Communications Inc.
View Article  Biogenerics Conference Addresses Scientific and Regulatory Issues Surrounding Biosimilars
When considering how follow-on biologics will be compared to innovator products, Emily Shacter has a favorite question: If the drug substance of the innovator product is unavailable for testing, and therefore has to be tested in the formulation buffer or purified out of the formulated commercial product, how will we...

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BioPharm International -- Advanstar Communications Inc.