Sanofi will support development of polypeptides, gene therapy, monoclonal antibodies and multi-specific antibodies through the expansion of its R&D plant in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China.
The CMO says adding the single-use offering from ABEC will make the newly opened biomanufacturing site in China comparable to stainless steel for commercial mAb production.
BeiGene’s tislelizumab will be the first commercial product to be made from Boehringer-Ingelheim’s site in Shanghai, and the first to be made by a foreign CMO in China.
Long life-cycles and significant consolidation in the manufacturing space have led to a lack of skilled workers in the vaccine space, says Sanofi Pasteur.
Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could end up benefitting Asian biosimilar makers and reducing US jobs, says an IP lawyer.
Sanpower Group says Dendreon's in-house manufacturing set-up will remain in place as it looks to increase US and Asian penetration of the prostate cancer cell therapy.
A lack of investment and government support has stunted biomanufacturing in India, but Biocon says this will change through the country’s 'Make in India' programme.
South Korea is a key opportunity for biopharma services firms says Thermo Fisher, reporting its third quarter which saw it up capabilities in the region.
A recently opened facility will double production of Sanofi Pasteur’s vaccine Stamaril which could alleviate shortages in the wake of recent yellow fever outbreaks in parts of Africa.
More plants in China will close says a US-based analyst who predicts that some drugmakers' inability to comply with stricter quality rules will create an opportunity for those that can.
CSL Behring will target growing Russian demand for protein-based therapies through a new Moscow office but says for now there are no plans for a local manufacturing site.
As GE ships the world’s largest ready-made biomanufacturing plant to China, the team involved tells us modular facilities are in demand from southeast Asian governments – and could hold the key to future pandemic treatments.
The $2.4bn market for “unproven” and “unethical” biologics market “preys on vulnerable patients” and harms development of legitimate large molecule drugs, says the International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT).
Sanofi’s decision to stop manufacturing an anti-venom will contribute to “needless death and disability” for snake bite victims, according to Médecins Sans Frontières.
A surge in UK cell therapy production last year means available manufacturing capacity has declined considerably according to a report by Cell Therapy Catapult.
The European Commission has approved Pfizer’s acquisition of Hospira, providing the larger company first divests of its infliximab candidate and several sterile injectables.
The Netherlands and India have signed a MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) under which a government-based institute of the Netherlands will extend technical support for the development and manufacturing of the measles-rubella vaccine.
In a reversal from three years ago, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on Thursday that an organism incapable of developing into a human being is not a human embryo and may be patented.
Industry heavyweights and Singaporean development groups have unveiled a five-year roadmap to deal with the need for more employees in the fast-growing biologics manufacturing industry on the island.
Biologics are the next challenge for multinationals looking to enter the lucrative Chinese market, but such drugs must offer value and genuine innovation, say the CEOs of Merck KGaA and Chi-Med.
Ranbaxy Laboratories has launched the monoclonal antibody Infimab, the first Remicade (Infliximab) biosimilar, in India -- which is the first what could be a few home-grown biosimilar launches.
With the goal of developing a thermostable tuberculosis vaccine, IDRI (Infectious Disease Research Institute) was awarded a contract from the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases that could be worth up to $11.9m.
GSK is keeping its Ebola vaccine production in-house, despite previously leaked documents which suggested the company could not ramp up volume of BS-2 manufacturing without impacting its other vaccine lines.
The WHO has accused biopharma firms of failing to invest in R&D to tackle Ebola due to the disease’s prevalence in poor African nations, as the death toll surpasses 4,000.
Nova’s vaccine stabilisation device, which enables vaccines to be dried and stabilized across a wide range of temperatures, has been awarded a US patent, though one researcher questions the utility of the device.
Reliance Life Sciences has been contracted to make the first Indian biosimilar of J&J’s Remicade (infliximab), though Epirus Biopharmaceuticals says it is looking to Fujifilm for its European supply.
Regenerative medicine company Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) has been issued a US patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office covering methods of manufacturing dendritic cells using a scalable process involving a renewable stem cell source as the starting...
Merck Millipore has set out to win more biomanufacturing business in Japan by consolidating testing and technical operations in the country into a newly expanded Tokyo training hub.
As the death toll from the world’s most expansive Ebola outbreak nears 1,000, multiple companies are stepping up efforts to bring antibodies and other vaccines to human trials, though none seem likely to be ready until 2015 at the earliest.
Biologic manufacturer PlantForm and PharmaPraxis have established a joint venture to develop, manufacture and commercialize biosimilar versions of six key biopharma treatments.
India is looking to stimulate investment in biotechnology through bioclusters and development of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB).
Biomanufacturing in India is being held back by a lack of skilled workers but training initiatives are helping to address the problem, say Oncobiologics and Biocon.
In what it says “is a milestone for the Chinese Biologics industry,” WuXi PharmaTech beat off bids from Lonza and Boehringer Ingelheim to make a monoclonal antibody for TaiMed
