AstraZeneca PLC (LSE:AZN) shares fell 3.5% after it confirmed that five current and former employees in China are being held by police for questioning. The individuals, all Chinese nationals, worked in the company's oncology division marketing cancer treatments, with the police detentions made in the city of Shenzhen earlier this summer.
Some employees of British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca have been detained by police in China as part of an investigation, the company confirmed Thursday. "We are aware a small number of our employees in China are under investigation and we have no further information to share at this point," an AstraZeneca spokesperson told CNBC by email.
AstraZeneca PLC (LSE:AZN) has confirmed that five current and former employees in China are being held by police for questioning. The individuals, all Chinese nationals, worked in the company's oncology division marketing cancer treatments, with the police detentions made in the city of Shenzhen earlier this summer.
The police in China have detained five current and former employees of AstraZeneca for questioning about potential illegal activities, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Nvidia Corp's volatile nature was on full display when its share price fell nearly 10% before the closing bell on Tuesday. It meant a record $270 billion was stripped from the artificial intelligence microchip maker's market value- that's more than the entire market capitalisation of Britain's largest company AstraZeneca PLC (LSE:AZN).
QGEN's expanded collaboration with AstraZeneca to focus on developing companion diagnostics beyond oncology.
AstraZeneca (LON: AZN) share price is firing on all cylinders as it sits on its all-time high. It has soared in the last five consecutive weeks, the longest streak since April 2023.
Per third-party reports, AstraZeneca (AZN) has refuted rumors about considering a change in the relocation of a vaccine manufacturing plant from the U.K. to the United States.
British biotech giant AstraZeneca PLC (LSE:AZN) has rebuffed claims that it is moving its vaccine operations to the US. A Financial Times report suggested that AstraZeneca could relocate its vaccine manufacturing operations to Philadelphia due to the Labour government' plans to cut state aid.
AstraZeneca has warned it could relocate its vaccine manufacturing site from the UK to the U.S. amid a deadlock in negotiations with the Labour government over plans to cut state aid promised to the project, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
This approval is based on late-stage study data, which shows that treatment with AstraZeneca's (AZN) Imfinzi reduced the risk of recurrence by 32% in certain non-small cell lung cancer patients.
AstraZeneca PLC's (LSE:AZN) blockbuster immunotherapy cancer drug Imfinzi (durvalumab) has received another approval in the US. In combination with chemotherapy, patients suffering resectable early-stage (IIA-IIIB) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) can now receive Imfinzi before and after surgery.