Fired Merck Staffers Get Help to Launch Spinoffs - May. 1, 2012

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Tuesday, May 01, 2012  |   |   |   |  Laboratory & Pharmaceutical Equipment: Surplus to Ongoing Operations of Sanofi-Aventis! Please click here for more information.   •  Fired Merck KGaA (MKGAF.PK) Staffers Get Help to Launch Spinoffs More... •  Novo Nordisk A/S (NVO) Inks Deal Worth up to $100 Million for Caisson's Heparosan Drug Delivery Platform More... •  Supernus Pharmaceuticals Prices IPO at $5, Raising $50 Million More... •  DARA BioSciences, Inc. Raises $10.25 Million to Launch Drugs More... •  Targacept, Inc. (TRGT), AstraZeneca PLC (AZN) End Partnership on Failed Drug More... •  Roche (RHHBY)'s Avastin and Novartis AG (NVS)'s Lucentis Equal for Treating Wet AMD - National Institutes of Health (NIH) Study More... •  ISTA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ISTA) Reports Positive Results From Phase 2 Trial Of BEPOSONE Nasal Spray More... •  GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Yale University School Of Medicine Ink Pact to Design a New Drug Class More... 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