The FINANCIAL -- Bayer HealthCare announced that the company will present latest preclinical data that introduce investigational compounds for both therapy and imaging in its oncology pipeline at the American Association for Cancer Research 103rd Annual Meeting, March 31 - April 4, 2012, in Chicago, IL.

The FINANCIAL -- Bayer HealthCare Company Ltd and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, are expanding their joint research partnership relating to the Bayer-Tsinghua Joint Research Center for Innovative Drug Discovery.

The FINANCIAL -- Lightweight construction is trump in the automotive industry. But now the railroad industry is also thinking more seriously about weight reduction programs for diesel trains, for example, to reduce fuel consumption, costs and carbon dioxide emissions.

The FINANCIAL -- Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly and Company announced that the European Commission has granted marketing authorization to BYETTA  as an adjunctive therapy to basal insulin, with or without metformin and/or Actos , for the treatment of type 2 diabetes in adults who have not achieved adequate glycemic control with these agents.