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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald officially open €85 million extension at Bausch + Lomb Waterford adding an additional 125 jobs Investment supported by Dept of Business, Enterprise and Innovation through IDA Ireland Waterford – July 31, 2017. Bausch + Lomb, a leading global eye health company, today announced that Taoiseach...

Synexa Life Sciences, a global leader in biomarker services, has announced the opening of its international headquarters in Dublin. The new centre will be home to Synexa’s global business development activities and a new Bioinformatics Lab and is expected to create up to 30 highly skilled jobs over the next five years. Welcoming the decision by ...

There is troubling news for Pfizer and cancer med Xtandi, one of the assets it picked up in its $14 billion deal last year for Medivation. The drug giant and its partner Astellas have given up their trials of Xtandi in breast cancer. Xtandi, which is already approved for treating prostate cancer, is shared with Tokyo-based drugmaker Astellas. Th...

Simon Coveney TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, today officially ended a new expansion at BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. in Shanbally, Co Cork. BioMarin has recently extended its site footprint to 20 acres as the company continues to experience a rise in the global demand for its therapies to treat rare genetic diseases that mostly affec...

Nine new drugs are still on hold for public patients (file picture) The Department of Health has told the HSE it believes the executive has money to fund new drugs this year, despite HSE claims that it cannot do so within its current budget. Nine new drugs, which have been found to be clinically effective and cost effective and which the HSE wan...

The amyloid plaques that characterize Alzheimer’s disease are surrounded by microglia, which are neurological cells that help govern how the brain responds to injury. Now, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered three genetic variants in microglia that may enhance the immune system’s ability to fight Alzheimer’s—and that may...

Science Foundation Ireland invested €184m in R&D last year Public and private spending on the area of research and development is around 1.7% of GNP at the moment The Minister responsible for research and development has expressed doubt about whether Ireland will reach its target of doubling spending on it by 2020. John Halligan said he was unsu...

What is Chronic Granulamatous Disease? CGD is a disease of the immune system. It is described as a primary immunodeficiencydisorder. “Primary” means it is not caused by some other disease or disorder.1 In people who have CGD, a type of white blood cell called a phagocyte is defective.2 These defective phagocytes cannot generate superoxide, leadi...

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