Mississippi Business Journal » pharmaceutical http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 05:01:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 MSU names drug company year’s best start-up http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/23/msu-names-drug-company-years-best-start-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=msu-names-drug-company-years-best-start-up http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/23/msu-names-drug-company-years-best-start-up/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:22:07 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=73767 STARKVILLE — Sano Chemical, the company launched to develop an antifungal drug discovered at Mississippi State University, has received the university’s Faculty Start-up Company of the Year. Dr. Stephen Pruett, basic sciences department head at MSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine, said the award was given by the Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer at the [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/23/msu-names-drug-company-years-best-start-up/feed/ 0 Pharmaceutical companies to be acquired for $101M http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/14/pharmaceutical-companies-to-be-acquired-for-101m/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pharmaceutical-companies-to-be-acquired-for-101m http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/14/pharmaceutical-companies-to-be-acquired-for-101m/#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:20:27 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=65317 MADISON — Pernix Therapeutics Holdings Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company based in Texas, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cypress Pharmaceuticals Inc., a privately owned generic pharmaceutical company, and Hawthorn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Hawthorn”), a privately owned branded pharmaceutical company, both based in Madison. Under the terms of the agreement, Pernix will pay approximately [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/14/pharmaceutical-companies-to-be-acquired-for-101m/feed/ 0 Pharmacy school gets $10M biomedical research grant http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/02/pharmacy-school-gets-10m-biomedical-research-grant/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pharmacy-school-gets-10m-biomedical-research-grant http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/02/pharmacy-school-gets-10m-biomedical-research-grant/#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:46:50 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=64705 OXFORD — The University of Mississippi and its School of Pharmacy have received a five-year, $10-million Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence, or COBRE, grant from the National Institutes of Health. COBRE is one of the main components for NIH’s Institutional Development Award program, which is designed to broaden funding for biomedical and behavioral research. The [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/02/pharmacy-school-gets-10m-biomedical-research-grant/feed/ 0 Late alumna Sciacca endows scholarship at UM School of Pharmacy http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/12/late-alumna-sciacca-endows-scholarship-at-um-school-of-pharmacy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=late-alumna-sciacca-endows-scholarship-at-um-school-of-pharmacy http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/12/late-alumna-sciacca-endows-scholarship-at-um-school-of-pharmacy/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:21:18 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=55659 OXFORD — The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy is offering a new scholarship thanks to the generosity of the late Madeline O. Sciacca of Slidell, La., who remembered her alma mater in her will. Sciacca, who obtained her pharmacy degree from UM in 1953, left $400,000 to the Ole Miss School of Pharmacy to [...]

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