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...“The phrase we use at UCB is you’d always play to the top of your intelligence. You never play [like] the audience will not understand something....
...Ms Richo, who most recently served as general counsel of Belgian biopharma company UCB, will become a member of the executive team and succeeds Laura Witte, who retired in May....
...Analysts had tipped the osteoporosis drug, Evenity, for blockbuster status with peak sales of €1.3bn a year before Amgen and UCB revealed the problem....
...UCB, the Belgian pharmaceuticals group, says that its medicine, called romosozumab, is the first capable of rebuilding weakened bones....
...Some have pointed to the uncertainty surrounding methylphenidate XR, a generic drug from UCB for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)....
...But analysts said there was also underlying strength in Thursday’s results from the European pharmaceuticals sector, including forecast-beating growth from Novo Nordisk of Denmark, UCB of Belgium and UK-listed...
...Targets might include UK-listed Shire, Actelion of Switzerland and UCB of Belgium....
...UCB has become the latest focus of inquiries by Chinese officials in a growing clampdown on drug pricing and marketing practices in the country....
...“UCB has become the latest focus of inquiries by Chinese officials in a growing clampdown on drug pricing and marketing practices in the country.”...
...He said it could also dampen demand for UCB’s monoclonal antibody Cimzia....
...French drugmaker Sanofi rose 4.5 per cent to €79 while Belgium’s UCB added 4.3 per cent to €40.23....
...AbbVie, Forest and UCB reported for the first time....
...UCB of Belgium launched the request for data on AbbVie’s trial documents, although it has since withdrawn its demand. Boehringer Ingelheim of Germany filed for information on InterMune’s products....
...UCB, the Belgian drug company, was one of those seeking reports on AbbVie’s Humira....
...Bernstein listed other potential midsize targets for AstraZeneca as Regeneron, UCB, Actelion, Vertex and Forest, all with market capitalisations of less than $10bn....
...Drug stocks were led higher by Belgium’s UCB , which climbed 1.6 per cent to €32.28 after a licence agreement with Immunomedics of the US for its lupus drug....
...China Inc had been a more adventurous investor before the global financial crisis, with the country’s sovereign wealth fund buying a 10 per cent stake in Morgan Stanley and China Development Bank buying...
...The field of “biologistics”, which caters for life sciences materials, constitutes a focus for the region, and benefits from the presence of such pharmaceutical groups as Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and UCB....
...And this year, Aesica made its first overseas acquisition, buying two manufacturing sites in Germany and one in Italy, from UCB, the Belgian group. Mr Hardy’s acquisition philosophy is clear....
...The Ghent-based company, spun off from Belgian drugmaker UCB in 2003 and bought by CVC four years later, made €715m in revenues last year....
...Shares in UCB rose 0.9 per cent to €29.90. French advertising groups Havas and JCDecaux advanced on a positive note from Goldman Sachs....
...UCB, based in San Francisco, was the 120th bank to fail this year and was estimated to have assets worth $11.2bn....
...Elsewhere in the sector, German healthcare group Fresenius climbed 3 per cent to €43.59 while Belgian pharmaceutical group UCB went up 0.6 per cent to €30.09....
...The US drugmaker beat UCB of Belgium and Nycomed of Switzerland to buy the division....
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