Wednesday, October 31, 2007

AZ - A rose by any other name....

Cambridge Antibody Technology, which was taken over by AstraZeneca last year, is changing its name to MedImmune, another of AstraZeneca's acquisitions, to unite the biologics businesses under the MedImmune name.

With this change, AstraZeneca said that it has created one of the world's leading vertically integrated biotechnology businesses, with more than $1.3 billion in revenues in 2006, a pipeline of approximately 100 research projects and more than one dozen clinical product candidates, and more than 3,000 employees worldwide.

As part of the integration, John Stageman, vice president of AstraZeneca biopharmaceutical strategic planning, assumes the role of interim site head in Cambridge.
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