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Putin signed a decree on the establishment of new health centers

Ru-Facts.com

In 2015 in Moscow will have several national medical research centers. The corresponding decree was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin said after meeting on federal funding of medical organizations. List of instructions published on the Kremlin website.

India asks Russia for more market access

The Hindu and Business Line

India wants greater market access in Russia for pharmaceuticals, automotive, textile and value added agricultural products, Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said.

Russian and Slovenian scientists develop new integrated cancer therapy

MARCHMONT Innovation News

Scientists from Russia’s Tomsk in Siberia and their colleagues from Slovenia have come up with a new cancer therapy believed to be “unrivaled” globally and preventing resistance in patients, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported. According to Academician Sergei Psakhye, the director of Tomsk’s Institute of Strengths Physics and Materials Science (ISPMS) whose words were quoted in the news, the researchers have learned how to inhibit the growth and multiplication of cancerous cells, using a special material. 

New antiviral drug to go into production in Urals

MARCHMONT Innovation News

A new antiviral drug called “Triasavirin” is expected to soon be put into production in the Urals; the biotech solution is believed to be based on an innovative technology of directly impacting a virus, the Skolkovo Foundation website reported . The Ural Center for Biopharma Technologies (UCBT), the developer of the solution, is a Skolkovo resident. 

Ministry of Industry and explained what restrictions affect foreign PM

Market Access Solutions

Ministry of Industry and Trade has explained its position on foreign medicines, whose participation in the public procurement plan to cap. Developed a draft resolution will help the Ministry of Industry in 2018 90% of the domestic market to provide domestic medicines. 

Russia does not plan to ban drug imports from Western countries

ThePharmaLetter

The Russian government has no plans to impose a ban on the pharmaceutical imports from the European Union and the USA, as proposed by some local top-officials, as a response to the next package of sanctions against Russia, which was yesterday approved by the EU. According to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, such a measure is currently considered as destructive.

Russia to expand cooperation in healthcare with BRICS countries

ITAR TASS

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says Russia had transformed from being a recipient of international assistance in healthcare into one of the largest donors

04 September 2014

Clearside Biomedical, Inc. Announces Fourth Patent Allowance in the U.S. Related To Proprietary Microneedle Drug Delivery Methods and Devices

Clearside Biomedical, Inc., announces the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted U.S. Patent Application No. 13/447,246 as U.S. Patent No. 8,808,225 in a patent titled, "Methods and Devices for Drug Delivery to Ocular Tissue Using Microneedle." This is the fourth patent allowance in the U.S. related to its proprietary microneedle drug delivery methods and devices.

01 September 2014

Clearside Biomedical, Inc. Completes $16 Million Series B Financing

Clearside Biomedical, Inc., today announced the closing of a $16 million Series B financing. The financing included new investor RusnanoMedInvest (RMI) and existing investors Hatteras Venture Partners, Santen Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd., Mountain Group Capital and Georgia Research Alliance Venture Fund.

Russian Scientists Develop Method for Earlier Detection of Cancer

RIA Novosti

Scientists from a subsidiary of the SIGMA.Novosibirsk nanotechnology center, a project run by the state-owned RUSNANO Corporation, have developed a technology that detects cancer in very early stages and can be employed at outpatient clinics, said a Friday statement on the center’s website.