Press releases
GSK receives offer for its thrombosis brands and related manufacturing site
GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK) has today received an offer for its thrombosis brands and Notre-Dame de Bondeville (NDB) site from Aspen Global Incorporated and Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Limited.
GSK statement regarding 2010 Nature Medicine study
GSK and Nature Medicine recently became aware of allegations of misrepresentation of data in a research paper written by scientists at GSK’s China research centre and published in Nature Medicine in 2010.
GSK statement in response to FDA Advisory Committee’s vote on availability of Avandia (rosiglitazone)
GlaxoSmithKline [NYSE: GSK] confirmed today that a joint advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted to continue to make Avandia (rosiglitazone) available to appropriate patients with the majority of the members voting to either modify (13) or remove (7) the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) program in place. Remaining members voted to continue the REMS (5) or withdraw (1) Avandia from the US market.
GSK announces Phase III data for TYKERB/TYVERB® (lapatinib) in combination with chemotherapy for advanced HER2-positive gastric cancer
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) plc today announced that its study of TYKERB/TYVERB® (lapatinib) in combination with chemotherapy in patients with HER2-positive advanced gastric cancer did not meet the primary endpoint of improved overall survival (OS) compared to chemotherapy alone.
GSK announces late-stage clinical data for VOTRIENT® (pazopanib) following chemotherapy in women with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) plc today announced that its Phase III clinical trial of VOTRIENT (pazopanib) as maintenance therapy in women with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer following front-line chemotherapy met the primary objective of a statistically significant improvement in the time to disease progression or death (progression-free survival, PFS) compared to placebo.
Two new GSK oral oncology treatments, BRAF-inhibitor Tafinlar® (dabrafenib) capsules and the first MEK-inhibitor Mekinist™ (trametinib) tablets, approved by FDA as single-agent therapies
- Both approved for unresectable or metastatic melanoma with BRAF V600E mutation; Mekinist also approved for BRAF V600K mutation
GSK and Genmab announce positive top-line results from pivotal trial of ARZERRA® (ofatumumab) combined with chlorambucil in previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) plc and Genmab A/S (OMX: GEN) announced today that their Phase III study of ARZERRA® (ofatumumab) in combination with chlorambucil versus chlorambucil alone in patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) met its primary endpoint of progression free survival (PFS) as assessed by an independent review committee (IRC).
GSK strengthens vaccines business with acquisition of Okairos
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) today announced that it has acquired Okairos AG (Okairos), a specialist developer of vaccine platform technologies for €250 million (approximately £215 million/$325 million) in cash.
Grant to Help Coordinate Campaign to Train One Million Community Health Workers in sub-Saharan Africa
In an effort to broadly expand the reach of health care services in sub-Saharan Africa, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will contribute $750,000 to the One Million Community Health Workers Campaign.
GlaxoSmithKline awarded up to $200 million by U.S. government to develop new antibiotics
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) plc and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), have agreed to a first of its kind collaboration that will support the development of several antibiotics to fight antibiotic resistance and bioterrorism.
