Vaccines

SAN FRANCISCO and FREISING, Germany, January 10, 2011 - Takeda San Francisco (TSF) and Pieris AG have signed a drug discovery partnership agreement under which Pieris will apply its Anticalin(R) scaffold technology to deliver protein therapeutic candidates to Takeda, both companies announced today.

FRIMLEY, England, January 13, 2011 - Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd today announced that Lucentis(R) (ranibizumab) is being launched in the UK for the treatment of visual impairment due to diabetes, specifically diabetic macular oedema (DMO).