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Phibro Announcement Sligo, Ireland. Phibro Animal Health Corporation (Nasdaq: PAHC) today announced plans to establish a biotech facility producing a range of innovative animal health vaccines on the IDA Ireland Finisklin Business Park in Sligo, creating up to 150 jobs over 5 years. The project is supported by the Irish Government through IDA Ir...

Our latest CRD video just went live! Here we explain what 'targeted therapy' means. This is an area we've both worked in, where researchers find specific molecules within cancer cells that allow us to more specifically kill them without harming healthy cells as much.

Waterford researchers say nutrients can slow Alzheimer's New research by a team of scientists in Waterford has identified a unique combination of nutrients that they say slows the progression of Alzheimer's disease. The 18-month study, published in the latest edition of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, examined the effect of nutritional compo...

Sourcing science funding: What is this €100m SFI project? They say it is a bad idea to look a gift horse in the mouth. I am not sure whether this is because the bestower of the gift might be offended, or some kind of karma arrive to deliver bad luck. However, like many before me, I couldn’t resist looking down the gullet of a gift horse, in the ...

Ludwig Burger, John Revill, John Miller FRANKFURT/ZURICH (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L) is buying Novartis (NOVN.S) out of their consumer healthcare joint venture for $13 billion, taking full control of products including Sensodyne toothpaste, Panadol headache tablets, muscle gel Voltaren, and Nicotinell patches. GSK’s biggest move since Em...

Work will begin this year on a €60 million development at Trinity College Dublin that will provide 1,800 additional places for students taking courses in science, technology engineering and mathematics (Stem) subjects. The development is being supported by a €25 million donation from Glen Dimplex Group founder Dr Martin Naughton and his wife, Ca...

Up to 25,000 additional pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs could be created in Europe by 2025 with the Republic of Ireland in a strong position to gain a significant number of the new roles, according to one generic drugmaker. Mylan, which employs 1,600 people across four sites in Dublin and Galway, said the additional jobs will only come about i...

A Cork-based biotechnology company has secured €2 million in funding to develop a product to identify whether women could develop preeclampsia. Metabolomic Diagnostics was awarded the funding from the European Union under its Horizon 2020 project, which received a total of 1280 applications. The €2 million will be used to commercialise the compa...

Pharma giant seeks planning for Swords plant Biotech facility to employ 350 on repurposed and expanded Dublin site Thu, Apr 19, 2018, 05:00 Artist’s impression of new MSD site at Swords expanded to 43,000sq m from previous 31,000sq m plant. MSD has submitted planning permission for the construction of its major new biotech plant in Swords. The c...