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Inside Life Sciences News October 2009


EDITORIAL

Shaping change in the pharmaceutical industry

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Whether it is strategic alliances, regulatory framework conditions like REACH, research aimed at profitable new drugs, or the growing generic drugs market: the pharmaceutical industry is currently marked by multiple changes.   more

NanoSelect™

Catalysts with promising market response

With its NanoSelect™ technology platform BASF’s Catalysts division has submitted an application for this year’s CPhI Innovation Awards. Every year, the awards acknowledge and honor pioneers in the pharmaceutical field.   more
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GUEST COMMENTARY BY PHIL TAYLOR

How to compete: originals versus generics?

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For years, large pharmaceutical companies have generally shunned generic drug production, with its lower margins, in favor of researching new medicines that command premium pricing.   more

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BASF AT CPHI 2009

Pharma Solutions live

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BASF will be presenting its extensive expertise for supporting pharmaceutical industry customers at “CPhI Worldwide.”   more

BUILDING BLOCKS

New microstructured reactor to produce building blocks for the pharmaceutical industry

A new microstructured reactor for the continuous production of volumes ranging from one to fifty tons is being installed at BASF’s integrated Verbund site in Ludwigshafen.  more

NMP ALTERNATIVE NEP

E rather than M

BASF has developed an interesting alternative to the solvent N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP): N-ethylpyrrolidone (NEP) for pharmaceutical manufacturing processes.  more

NORTH AMERICA PHARMA TEAM

Over 50 years of experience

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The new North America pharma team of BASF’s Intermediates division knows what its customers need.  more

JSPS SYMPOSIUM

Exchange between industry and science

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The Summer Symposium 2009, held by The Japanese Society for Process Chemistry (JSPS) at Hunabori, was a successful event considering the intensive exchange between universities and public research institutes and the pharmaceutical industry.  more

NEW BASF WEBINAR

Organozinc halides in organic synthesis

The next webinar offered by BASF’s Inorganics Team in Evans City, Pennsylvania, will deal with a subject that points the way to the future of C-C cross-coupling.  more

ARTICLE PUBLISHED

Advances in preparation and use of organozinc halides

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Brian M. Coleridge, Charles S. Bello and Dr. Andreas Leitner (all BASF) have just published a remarkable article in "Tetrahedron Letters" regarding organozinc reagents.  more

NEW TEAM FOR ITALY, SPAIN AND PORTUGAL

Focus on Southern Europe

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Pharma customers in Italy, Spain and Portugal now have their own expert contact for their line of business: Ms. Lisa Stasi from the Intermediates division of BASF in Italy.  more

PRECIOUS METAL PRICES

Monthly highs, lows and averages

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Read our new overview regarding recent precious metal prices.  more

PEOPLE

People at BASF
New people in the Pharma team.  more

LET'S GET TOGETHER

Pharma meetings and events around the globe.  more

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