Farmitalia
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Farmitalia was an Italian pharmaceutical company best known for its parallel discovery with Rhone-Poulenc of daunorubicin and subsequent discovery of doxorubicin.[1] Farmitalia had been founded in 1935 as a joint venture by Rhone-Poulenc and Montecatini.[2]
In 1978 it was merged with Carlo Erba SpA, a pharmaceutical company that had been founded in 1853 by the pharmacist Carlo Erba, in which Montecatini had acquired a controlling interest in 1971; the merged company was called Farmitalia Carlo Erba SpA.[2]
Farmitalia Carlo Erba was acquired by Pharmacia in 1993[3] and Pharmacia was acquired by Pfizer in 2003.[4]
Drugs discovered at Farmitalia that reached the market included (with date of first publication):
- 1960 Sulfalene[5][6]
- 1963 Daunorubicin[7][8]
- 1969 Doxorubicin[1][9]
- 1980 Cabergoline[10][11]
- 1984 Reboxetine[12][13]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bilotto Antonella for Regione Lombardia. Carlo Erba SpA Page accessed April 17, 2016
- ↑ Staff. News: Farmitalia bought by Kabi Pharmacia. Ann Oncol (1993) 4 (5): 345.
- ↑ Staff, CNN/Money. April 16, 2003 It's official: Pfizer buys Pharmacia
- ↑ Baruffa G. Clinical trials in Plasmodium falciparum malaria with a long-acting sulphonamide. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 1966;60(2):222-4. PMID 5332105
- ↑ Per prior citation, the first publication: Camerino B, Palamidessi G (1960) Derivati della parazina II. Sulfonamdopir (in Italian). Gazz Chim Ital 90:1802–1815
- ↑ Suarato A, Angelucci F, Geroni C. Ring-B modified anthracyclines. Curr Pharm Des. 1999 Mar;5(3):217-27. Review. PMID 10066891
- ↑ Grein A, et al. Descrizione e classificazione di un attinomicete (Streptonryces peucetius sp. nova) produttore di una sostanza ad attivita antitumorale. Giorn. Microbiol. 11: 109~ 118, 1963
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Council regulation (EEC) no 1768/92 in the matter of Application No SPC/GB94/012 for a Supplementary Protection Certificate in the name of Farmitalia Carlo Erba S. r. l.
- ↑ Espace record: GB 202074566
- ↑ Cocchiara G, et al Comparison of the disposition and of the metabolic pattern of Reboxetine, a new antidepressant, in the rat, dog, monkey and man. Eur J Drug Metab Pharmacokinet. 1991 Jul-Sep;16(3):231-9. PMID 1814741
- ↑ First publication per prior citation: Melloni M et al. Potential antidepressant agents. α-aryloxy-benzyl derivatives of ethanolamine and morpholine. Eur J Med Chem, 3 (1984), pp. 235–242
