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Genentech Wire

Comprehensive News Feed for Genentech.

Results 1 - 20 of 844 in Genentech

  1. Google Does WashingtonRead the original story

    12 hrs ago | Lockergnome Nexus

    ... such as Office and beat back a challenge for Procter & Gamble Co.'s business this year. Google won clients such as Genentech Inc., and D.C. provides a glimpse into how the Web company is gaining ground. What the article doesn't cover is how well the ...

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    Related Topix: Washington DC, Biotech, Medicine, Genentech, Healthcare Industry

  2. Phase III Study Showed Rituxan In Combination With Chemotherapy...Read the original story

    Yesterday | MediLexicon

    ... for most patients. Over the past ten years, there have been more than one million patient exposures to Rituxan. Genentech and Biogen Idec co-market Rituxan in the United States, and Roche markets MabThera in the rest of the world, except Japan, ...

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    Related Topix: Biotech, Biogen Idec, Startups, Medicine, Genentech, Healthcare Industry, Hepatitis, Health, Immunology, Biology, Science

  3. Some Good News in BiotechRead the original story

    Yesterday | The Biotech Stock Blog

    ... companies in the sector. The journal "Science" is out with its annual ranking of the best biopharma employers. And Genentech ( DNA ) has grabbed the top position again. It had been #1 for the first five years of the survey, but fell to #2 last year, ...

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    Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, AstraZeneca Group, Healthcare Industry, Startups, Genentech

  4. Two new PDL directors get cash, options

    Friday | San Francisco Business Times

    ... thousands of shares. John McLaughlin, the former CEO of Anesiva Inc. (NASDAQ: ANSV) and former general counsel at Genentech Inc. (NYSE: DNA), and former Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE: BSX) executive Paul Sandman joined the board of the Redwood ...

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    Related Topix: Biotech, Startups, Medicine, Protein Design Labs, PDL BioPharma, Healthcare Industry, Anesiva, Anesiva, Genentech

  5. Google Rewires Washington in Challenge to Microsoft's Top Office SoftwareRead the original story

    Friday | Bloomberg.com

    ... such as Office and beat back a challenge for Procter & Gamble Co.'s business this year. Google won clients such as Genentech Inc., and D.C. provides a glimpse into how the Web company is gaining ground. ``If Google keeps getting big customers like ...

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    Related Topix: Microsoft, Software, Financial Markets, Biotech, Medicine, Genentech, Healthcare Industry, Mountain View, CA

  6. Monsanto Recognized as Top Biotechnology Employer by Science MagazineRead the original story

    Thursday | Digital Producer

    ... environment, work/life balance, and compensation and benefits. Monsanto ranked second only to San Francisco -based Genentech Inc. Monsanto was recently honored as one of the 2008 Working Mother 100 Best Companies by Working Mother magazine. ...

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    Related Topix: Monsanto, Chemicals, Biotech, Science / Technology, St. Louis, MO Metro

  7. Gene-testing startup's study responds to critics Read the original story

    Wednesday Oct 8 | The Associated Press

    A Silicon Valley gene-testing startup is responding to criticism that the tests could spur bad health-care choices by teaming up for a broad study of how the results affect behavior.

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    Related Topix: Business News

  8. Option Update: Genentech volatility elevated; shares below Roche's $89 offerRead the original story

    Wednesday Oct 8 | Blogging Stocks

    Genentech closed at $78.19 Tuesday. Roche announced on July 21 the offer to buy the balance of 44% of DNA it does not own for $89 cash.

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    Related Topix: Biotech, Startups, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Genentech

  9. Extending time of stroke drug treatment OKRead the original story

    Thursday Sep 25 | WTVG

    ... Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc., which markets TPA as Actilyse overseas. TPA is sold in North America by Genentech Inc. as Activase. Last week, the same researchers reported similar results in a less rigorous observational study of 664 ...

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    Related Topix: Stroke, Medicine, Health, Duke University

  10. Drug stocks slide with broader marketRead the original story

    Wednesday Oct 8 | MarketWatch

    ... amongst the large caps included Schering-Plough Corp. ( SGP : SGP , , ) , Abbott Laboratories ( ABT : ABT , , ) , Genentech Inc. ( DNA : DNA , , ) , AstraZeneca PLC ( AZN : AZN , , ) and Novartis AG. ( NVS : NVS , , )

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    Related Topix: Schering Plough, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

  11. Morgan Sheng Appointed VP Neuroscience Research at Genentech

    Wednesday Oct 8 | Biopharm

    Genentech, Inc. has appointed Morgan Sheng, MD, PhD, vice president, neuroscience.

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    Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Genentech, Healthcare Industry, Startups, South San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Metro, San Francisco Metro

  12. Rituxan Plus Chemotherapy Effective For Leukemia Treatment

    Tuesday Oct 7 | EMaxHealth

    Rituxan is found to be a good blood cancer treatment method given together with traditional chemotherapy. Genentech Inc. and Biogen Idec conducted a late stage trial called REACH and involving 552 chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients, who had ...

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    Related Topix: Leukemia, Health, Medicine, Cancer, Biotech, Genentech, Healthcare Industry, Startups, Healthcare Law, Law, Lymphoma

  13. NEWS & NOTES: Kit makes wheelchairs ATVsRead the original story

    Tuesday Oct 7 | Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    ... month. Watkins' final grade at the end of the semester? An A. Tarceva, Avastin combo no help Roche Holding AG and Genentech Inc. said recently that a study into the benefits of combining their Tarceva and Avastin drugs for lung cancer patients did ...

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    Related Topix: University of South Florida, Inventions, Science / Technology, Health, Lung Cancer

  14. Phase III Study of Rituxan in Leukemia Meets its Goal

    Tuesday Oct 7 | BioWorld

    Genentech Inc. and Biogen Idec Inc. said their investigational leukemia drug Rituxan passed a second Phase III study, meeting its primary goal of improving the period of time before the disease progresses ...

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    Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Genentech, Healthcare Industry, Startups, Leukemia, Health, Cyclophosphamide (generic), Cytoxan, Medication, San Francisco Metro, San Francisco Metro

  15. Genentech touts test of Rituxan plus chemo vs. leukemia

    Tuesday Oct 7 | Bizjournals

    Biotech giant Genentech Inc. and partner Biogen Idec said a combined treatment of Rituxan and chemotherapy did well in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, the most common adult leukemia.

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    Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Genentech, Healthcare Industry, Startups, Leukemia, Health, Biogen Idec, Lymphoma

  16. Phase III Study Showed Rituxan Combined With Chemotherapy Improved...Read the original story

    Tuesday Oct 7 | Medical News Today

    ... for most patients. Over the past ten years, there have been more than one million patient exposures to Rituxan. Genentech and Biogen Idec co-market Rituxan in the United States, and Roche markets MabThera in the rest of the world, except Japan, ...

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    Related Topix: Biotech, Biogen Idec, Startups, Medicine, Genentech, Healthcare Industry, Hepatitis, Health, Immunology, Biology, Science

  17. Genentech, Inc. , Biogen Idec, Inc. (Massachusetts)'s Rituxan Meets...Read the original story

    Tuesday Oct 7 | BioSpace

    Genentech Inc. and Biogen Idec Inc. said Tuesday their cancer drug Rituxan slowed the progress of chronic lymphocytic leukemia in a late stage clinical trial, meeting its primary goal.

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    Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Genentech, Healthcare Industry, Startups

  18. Genes May Explain Racial Disparities in AsthmaRead the original story

    Tuesday Oct 7 | MedlinePlus

    ... as severe by their physicians and to be treated with three or more long-term controller drugs, Haselkorn, of Genentech Inc., in South San Francisco, California, and her associates report in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. However, the ...

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    Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Genentech, Healthcare Industry, San Francisco Metro, San Francisco Metro, South San Francisco, CA, Immunology, Biology, Science

  19. Genentech, Biogen Idec report positive study results for Rituxan in...

    Tuesday Oct 7 | M2.com

    Genentech, Biogen Idec report positive study results for Rituxan in combination with chemotherapy in chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients M2Europharma on Tuesday, 07 October 2008 at 07:51 GMT 7 October 2008 US ...

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    Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Genentech, Biogen Idec, Healthcare Industry, Startups, Leukemia, Health, Cyclophosphamide (generic), Cytoxan, Medication

  20. Genentech and OSI Pharmaceuticals Announce Topline Results from Phase ...Read the original story

    Monday Oct 6 | Med Ad News

    October 5, 2008 -- Genentech, Inc. and OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that a randomized Phase III study evaluating Avastin in combination with Tarceva in patients with advanced non-small cell lung ...

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    Related Topix: OSI Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, Medicine, Genentech, Healthcare Industry, Startups, Health, Lung Cancer, Chicago Metro, Oncology