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  • Pharmaceutical propellant market leader Mexichem has announced its acquisition of a distribution and sale license for DuPont’s pharmaceutical grade Dymel 227ea/P propellant and says that it will market the product under its Zephex brand. Zephex… Read more . . .

  • Novartis has announced that it submitted New Drug Applications to the FDA for both the QVA149 indacaterol/glycopyrronium bromide and NVA237 glycopyrronium bromide DPIs in the fourth quarter of 2014. Both inhalers are meant for the… Read more . . .

  • Vectura has announced that it will partner with Janssen Biotech to develop inhaled dry powder anti-inflammatory products for the treatment of asthma and COPD. Janssen’s drug candidates will be developed using Vectura’s DPI delivery technology,… Read more . . .

  • Indian conglomerate SRF Limited has acquired DuPont’s Dymel pharmaceutical propellants for $20 million in cash, according to reports in the Indian press. SRF, which already has two technical grade HFA-134a plants, plans to build its… Read more . . .

  • Italian startup Plumestars has announced via Twitter that it has received orphan drug status from the EMA for its amikacin dry powder inhaler for the treatment of P. aeruginosa infections in cystic fibrosis patients. Here… Read more . . .

  • Accoding to Teva, the FDA has approved the company’s QNASL beclomethasone dipropionate HFA nasal spray for the treatment of allergic rhinitis symptoms in children aged 4-11. The supplemental NDA for the pediatric product was accepted… Read more . . .

  • Verona Pharma has announced that Kenneth Newman, a former Acton Pharmaceuticals CMO and former Boehringer Ingelheim VP, Medical Affairs, will become Verona’s Chief Medical Officer as of January 1. At Acton, Newman headed up clinical… Read more . . .

  • Submit abstracts by January 10, 2015 at https://www.m-anage.com/Login.aspx?event=isam2015 More information available at http://www.isamcongress.com/index.php/site/index/14 Read more . . .

  • DDL 25 conference chair Gary Pitcairn opened the Silver Anniversary edition of Drug Delivery to the Lungs by welcoming approximately 550 attendees to the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. With the meeting’s rapid growth in attendance… Read more . . .

  • Novartis has reportedly sued Cipla in the Delhi High Court for infringing patents related to Novartis’s Onbrez Breezhaler indacaterol DPI (Arcapta Neohaler). Cipla began marketing a generic indacaterol DPI called “Unibrez” in October; after losing… Read more . . .

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