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March 10, 2008 Cover
Volume 86, Issue 10
Volume 86, Issue 10
PHARMACEUTICAL HAND-OFFS
Small U.S. biopharmaceutical companies scour the globe to find manufacturing partners that can best meet their needs
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March 10, 2008 Issue
Volume 86, Issue 10
March 10, 2008 Issue, Vol. 86 | Iss. 10
Small U.S. biopharmaceutical companies scour the globe to find manufacturing partners that can best meet their needs
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Features
Government & Policy
Cleanup of nuclear weapons sites is behind schedule and over budget, audit shows, but DOE cuts program (pp. 50-52)
Science & Technology
Phosphoproteomics needs to progress from cataloguing sites to understanding their biology (pp. 62-63)
Cover Story: Pharma Outsourcing
Closely Linked
CASE STUDY #1: A unique deal with Siegfried helps Arena Pharmaceuticals advance its first product
(pp. 18-20)Keeping Baby Home
CASE STUDY #2: Anthera finds stability and flexibility in Albemarle, its manufacturing partner for its most precious asset
(pp. 21-23)Repelling Radiation
CASE STUDY #3: Cleveland BioLabs and SynCo Bio Partners huddle on a second shot at a defense contract
(pp. 24-27)News of the Week
Pfizer Meets Analysts
CEO says reengineered giant will strengthen its pipeline with smaller biotech acquisitions
(p.12)Streamlining Data
Companies opt to provide less information on Toxics Release Inventory reports
(p.12)Virtually Created Enzymes
Designed retro-aldolases catalyze breaking of carbon-carbon bond in an unnatural substrate
(p.13)Gain And Loss In Malaria War
Ambitious ventures launch as GSK pulls two treatments for the disease
(p.15)Departments
Business
Former Praxair CEO foresees less U.S.-centric industry, but one still essential to life
(pp. 32-34)
Chemical companies' sales and earnings show impact of portfolio changes
(pp. 35-36)
Country introduces controls to cap rising prices for fertilizers
(p.38)Concentrates
(pp. 29-30)
(pp. 29-30)- Hovione, Evonik Boost China Pharma Chemicals
- Natural Products Deal For Cognis
- Hexion Names Its Leadership Team
- New R&D Center Set For Merck
- DSM Invests In Chinese Biomaterials
- PDL To Restructure After Sale Failed
- Dow Expands Its Executive Team
- Arkema Boosts Hydrogen Peroxide
- Chemtura Makes Portfolio Moves
- Chevron, Weyerhaeuser Form Biofuels Venture
- BioVectra Wins Kane Enzyme Contract
- Asahi Expands Battery Separators
- BUSINESS ROUNDUP
- All Concentrates
ACS News
ACS organizes U.S. visit for Chinese academics to share chemistry experiences
(pp. 76-77)
Government & Policy
Industry lobbyists say any restriction on carbon emissions will boost demand for natural gas
(pp. 42-48)
Cleanup of nuclear weapons sites is behind schedule and over budget, audit shows, but DOE cuts program
(pp. 50-52)Books
Book is a no-nonsense guide to a discipline concerned with both teaching and learning chemistry
(pp. 72-73)Education
Over two decades, women and noncitizens have been eroding the male domination of U.S. science
(pp. 67-71)
Science & Technology
CASE STUDY #1: A unique deal with Siegfried helps Arena Pharmaceuticals advance its first product
(pp. 18-20)
CASE STUDY #2: Anthera finds stability and flexibility in Albemarle, its manufacturing partner for its most precious asset
(pp. 21-23)
CASE STUDY #3: Cleveland BioLabs and SynCo Bio Partners huddle on a second shot at a defense contract
(pp. 24-27)
Small U.S. biopharmaceutical companies scour the globe to find manufacturing partners that can best meet their needs
(p.17)
Royalty payouts from university-held patents have power to transform chemistry departments
(pp. 56-61)
Phosphoproteomics needs to progress from cataloguing sites to understanding their biology
(pp. 62-63)