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GSK fires Chinese R&D head in data investigation

14 June 2013 Business

Company is retracting a 2010 study in which data were ‘misrepresented’

No small success

12 June 2013 Feature

Chad Mirkin has spun out his nanotechnology research into several companies

Thermo Fisher to buy Life Technologies in $15.8bn deal

19 April 2013 Business

Equipment suppliers unite, bringing Thermo into life sciences and sequencing markets

India rejects Novartis patent appeal

8 April 2013 Business

Supreme court uphold decision to refuse protection for Glivec

Chemdoodler draws on chemistry

6 March 2013 Jobs Profile (Personal)

Kevin Theisen’s software is used by scientists all over the world. Sarah Houlton learns why he moved from the chemistry programme to chemistry programmer

2012 pharma industry roundup

3 January 2013 Business

What were the bigger stories? And how did the industry fare overall?

Of castes and chemistry

12 December 2012 Jobs Profile (Personal)

From southern India to Northern Ireland, Geetha Srinivasan has been applying her research to solving real world problems, as Sarah Houlton finds out

Allow me to demonstrate

5 December 2012 Jobs Profile (Personal)

As Peter Wothers gets ready to deliver this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures, Sarah Houlton finds out he’s had a lifetime of preparation

Nobel signals for new drugs

8 November 2012 Jobs Profile (Company)

Sarah Houlton talks to a company that’s capitalising on the chemistry of communication

EU tightens drug rules in wake of Mediator scandal

19 September 2012 News and Analysis

Withdrawal of a drug in one EU member state will trigger an alert throughout the rest

Drug maker apologises for thalidomide tragedy

4 September 2012 News and Analysis

Fifty years after the event Grünenthal issues an apology as victims of the drug continue to press for compensation

Fast, flexible and flourishing

22 August 2012 Feature

Sarah Houlton profiles Paul Workman, the 2012 Chemistry World entrepreneur of the year

Succouring success

5 July 2012 Jobs Profile (Company)

Sarah Houlton reports on BioCity Nottingham, a start-up incubator helping fledgling companies find their feet

Roche rapped for side-effect reporting failure

26 June 2012 Business

European medicines regulator names and shames Swiss giant for not disclosing 80,000 instances of potential adverse drug reactions

Managing change: Patent protectors

27 January 2012 Managing Change

When it comes to the world of patents, a chemist's knowledge of the laws of the lab can be as important as knowing the laws of the land, as Sarah Houlton finds out

Illumina fends off Roche hostile bid

27 January 2012 News Archive

Roche aims to expand personalised medicine diagnostics by acquiring the gene sequencing leader

Takeda slashes 10% of its workforce

20 January 2012 News Archive

Japanese pharmaceutical firm sheds 2800 jobs in the US and Europe after recent takeover of Nycomed

Chasing the wave

22 December 2011 Feature

With the authorities, medics and analytical chemists struggling to break the flow of new legal highs, the bad guys appear to be getting the upper hand. Sarah Houlton reports