Amgen

Brands to be retained as companies to co-exist under shared group structure

Company aiming to hit €100m revenue milestone in three years as demand soars

Economy expected to rebound strongly in the second half of 2021 as Covid restrictions are eased

Lynparza may be effective medication for patients with BRCA genetic mutation

European bank stocks rise on positive trading updates

EU-UK rift over fishing narrows as deadline for deal approaches

Foreign direct investment underpins US links with Ireland and is set to get stronger

Galway company is developing enhanced natural killer cells to target cancers

Travel and leisure stocks outperform in August, adding nearly 15%

Markets report: Stronger sterling drags down UK blue chips on FTSE 100

Iseq all-share index closes 0.3% up, with best performers coming from the transport sector

Odyssey VC specialises in services for companies operating in highly regulated sectors

Swiss drugmaker betting on cholesterol-lowering prospect

German Dax rises to six-week high as Iseq falls by almost a third of 1% on thin trading volumes

Bristol-Myers Squibb’s acquisition of Celgene goes ahead after Amgen pays €13.4bn for drug

In Dublin, the Iseq index closed down 0.3 per cent, with financial stocks declining again

London’s Ftse 100 also bagged gains as investors flocked to defensive stocks

World’s largest biotech company has discovered a drug to target a supposedly ‘undruggable’ gene mutation

GAA top brass sees Cuala-Amgen deal as offering a template for other sponsors

Genentech says Dublin-based Amgen’s cancer treatment drug is infringing its patent

Medicines generally blocked on basis of price as Ipha says delay ‘unacceptably long’

Seen and heard: PwC to review children’s hospital costs, ESB may offload Dublin depot

There are many and varied routes to employment in Ireland’s burgeoning life sciences industry

Net Results: The sale of DNA databases for private research is of huge ethical concern

After several false starts, way is clear for John Thero to take Vascepa cholesterol drug to market

Cancer strategy targets ‘to be missed’ if new generation drugs not backed by Government

Generics unit Sandoz is producing cheaper biosimilar copies in hopes of capturing sales

Smurfit Kappa shares slide almost 7% while Aer Lingus owner IAG falls 3.49%

Cancer drugs feature in list of therapies waiting HSE approval on cost grounds

Takeda Pharmaceutical has tabled $60 billion offer

Saying thanks can have a positive impact on employee motivation and workplace culture

New lower income-tax rate encourages US companies to repatriate billions of dollars in foreign profits held abroad

Bank gets more than 40 per cent of its revenue outside the US

Ireland’s continued economic success, post-Brexit, will come from maintaining and strengthening ties with the US

CRH outperforms while Ryanair bounces back after sell-off to close higher

Ireland’s benchmark index drops marginally, performs better than Europe’s Stoxx 600

Political uncertainty in the aftermath of the UK election contributed to poor volume in Dublin

Dundalk-based firm agrees five-year, multi-million euro agreement with BioReference

Stoxx 600 index climbs to highest level since December 2015 amid Dutch election relief

Iseq falls 0.8% as Paddy Power Betfair confirms a slowdown in online gaming