FDA and the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research will hold a public meeting on Jan. 18 to discuss the appropriate collection of long-term follow-up data for CCR5 antagonist clinical trials.

Celgene will get exclusive use of Quanticel's single-cell genomic analysis to tweak its clinical pipeline, and it also has exclusive options to acquire the venture-backed start-up.

With an unrestricted label and once-daily dosing, rivaroxaban will do battle with Boehringer-Ingelheim's dabigatran, which is dosed twice a day but can claim superior efficacy to warfarin in the atrial fibrillation population.