Abdul-Jabbar also works as a paid spokesman for Novartis Pharmaceuticals, which makes Tasigna, the drug therapy he takes to manage his CML. He says this role exposes him to a new fan base.
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The motion was brought by Novartis and Momenta Pharmaceuticals, who are seeking to launch a generic version.
For Novartis, a pharmaceuticals giant, a 9% earnings gain in dollar terms during the first half of 2011 turned into a 16% loss in Swiss-franc terms.
But other companies are filing in behind, including Merck, Roche , Novartis and Kos Pharmaceuticals, the small firm whose niacin preparations are the only marketed drugs to raise 'good cholesterol, ' also known as high-density lipoprotein (HDL).
The tougher rules in Switzerland have struck a chord with a Swiss public wearied by a string of high-profile corporate mishaps, and had looked likely to pass since news broke two weeks ago that the Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis planned to give its departing chairman a SFr72m pay-off, even though the plans were subsequently dropped.
Idenix Pharmaceuticals partnered with Novartis on its polymerase inhibitor, nm283.
Novartis has been working with Kunming Pharmaceuticals and Holley Pharmaceuticals to upgrade their production capacity.
In 2003 Novartis had been collaborating with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals to test Regeneron's interleukin-1 blocker in rheumatoid arthritis.
Novartis operates on four fronts: pharmaceuticals, vaccines and diagnostics, generics and consumer health.
"I think it's a question of finding the right targets, " says Paulo Costa , head of Novartis' U.S. pharmaceuticals arm.
In 2003 Novartis had been collaborating with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: REGN - news - people ) to test Regeneron's interleukin-1 blocker in rheumatoid arthritis.
This has caused particular headaches for Novartis, whose Chinese supplier, Kunming Pharmaceuticals, failed to deliver the promised quantities.
Generic drugmakers Geneva Pharmaceuticals, a unit of Novartis AG (nyse: NVS - news - people ), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (nasdaq: TEVA - news - people ) and privately held Ranbaxy Laboratories had all sued to quash the Glaxo patents.
But Novartis' medicine, licensed from closely held Bruin Pharmaceuticals, takes an entirely different approach than the Pfizer and Roche drugs.
One of the most successful mergers in pharmaceuticals, between Sandoz and Ciba Geigy to form Novartis, was between two firms whose closeness of approach was the greater for being based in the same Swiss town (and doubtless run by chaps who had done national service together).
But other companies are filing in behind, including Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ), Roche , Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) and Kos Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: KOSP - news - people ), the small firm whose niacin preparations are the only marketed drugs to raise 'good cholesterol, ' also known as high-density lipoprotein (HDL).
Jimenez, a graduate of Stanford University, joined Novartis in April 2007 and ran the company's consumer health division before moving the pharmaceuticals side.
Companies like Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) and Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) have received approval for cancer drugs without proving that they extend survival, but those efforts have involved carefully crafted messages.
For instance, Noven Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: NOVN - news - people ) and Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ), which make a patch that delivers estrogen, emphasized that it was not clear that the results could be extended to their product.
Idenix Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: IDIX - news - people ) partnered with Novartis on its polymerase inhibitor, nm283.
Erbitux, Millennium Pharmaceuticals ' (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) Velcade and Novartis ' (nyse: NVS - news - people ) Gleevec were all approved on what would have been considered early-stage data.
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