Celltrion, one of Korea’s largest biopharma companies, will be Rani’s exclusive supplier of ustekinumab biosimilar, CT-P43, for its oral RT-111 RaniPill program.
German mRNA pioneer BioNTech will acquire InstaDeep, an artificial intelligence and machine learning specialist, for around £362m ($439m): pledging to incorporate rapidly evolving AI capabilities into its research, drug discovery, manufacturing and deployment...
With Eisai and Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi (lecanemab) approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week, Eisai has revealed more details on its rollout plans for the drug.
There has been a flurry of antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) agreements in recent weeks, and today sees the inking of another deal involving Tokyo headquartered Ajinomoto Co Inc and US biotech, Exelixis.
On Friday (Jan 6), the US Food and Drink Administration (FDA) granted a licence for another anti-amyloid drug – lecanemab – to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
The collaboration will combine ReCode’s delivery technology with AskBio’s gene editing and DNA cargoes to develop gene correction therapies for liver and lung diseases.
Moderna and CytomX Therapeutics have announced a collaboration and licensing agreement to create investigational mRNA-based conditionally activated therapies using Moderna's mRNA technologies and CytomX's Probody therapeutic platform.
BioNTech and the UK government have signed a wide-reaching Memorandum of Understanding (MoU): with one of the goals to provide up to 10,000 patients with personalized mRNA cancer immunotherapies by 2030.
Synaffix, a Netherlands based company providing clinical-stage platform technology for the development of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), has signed off on two new licensing deals this week.
France headquartered CDMO, Delpharm, has expanded its pharmaceutical development services with the acquisition of the Leiden Development Centre from Dr Reddy's in the Netherlands.
AstraZeneca and Sanofi said their Biologics License Application (BLA) for nirsevimab has been accepted for review by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Thermo Fisher Scientific will provide biologic manufacturing capabilities and scale-up capacity to manage clinical supply of eblasakimab for future Phase 3 studies.
Last week saw Opus Genetics announce it had acquired the rights to two preclinical-stage adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapy product candidates for inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) from Iveric Bio.
Expanding generic drug competition and a decline in the demand for COVID-19 vaccines and therapies have brought down the aggregate market capitalization of the global top 20 biopharmaceutical companies by 9.1%.
While the pandemic brought new entrants into the market, vaccine manufacturing remains a complex activity undertaken by a limited number of companies with the overall picture largely unchanged by COVID-19.
BioNTech has dosed the first participant in a Phase 1 trial for BNT163, a herpes simplex virus (HSV) vaccine candidate for HSV-2 and potentially HSV-1.
Replay, the genome writing company formed in July, has launched its third product company, Kaleibe, which will use HSV gene therapy to target genetic brain disorders.
GSK and genetic medicines company, Wave Life Sciences, have announced a strategic collaboration to advance oligonucleotide therapeutics across multiple disease areas.
BioNTech will create its first regional clinical trial sites in East Asia: with the launch of activities in Taiwan for an mRNA head and neck cancer candidate.
France’s Polyplus has made two acquisitions of late, one to expand its plasmid DNA engineering technology and services portfolio, and another to enhance its GMP fill and finish capacities.
Merck has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Synplogen, a startup spun out of Kobe University's Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) are collaborating on vaccine safety and effectiveness monitoring studies.
Calidi Biotherapeutics, a clinical-stage biotech developing allogeneic stem cell-based platforms for oncolytic virus immunotherapies, has been awarded a $3.1m grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).
Annogen has begun a research project with Pfizer to functionally test tens of thousands of disease-related non-coding sequence variants for their effect on gene regulation.
ExPLoRNA Therapeutics, a Polish biotech developing mRNA vaccines and therapeutics with improved translational efficiency, has received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to further develop its mRNA technology.
Emmes has announced the creation of a dedicated center for cell and gene therapy research: which will focus on supporting clinical trials for the Clinical Research Organization’s (CRO) clients.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted Pfizer’s RSV vaccine Biologics License Application (BLA) for priority review: with a decision expected in May.
Rani Therapeutics, which is aiming to orally deliver the osteoporosis drug, PTH, for the first time, has shared positive clinical data from part two of its Phase 1 trial for RT-102, its RaniPill capsule.
Intravacc has enrolled the first participant in a phase I first in-human clinical trial of Avacc 10, the company’s SARS-CoV-2 intranasal subunit vaccine, as a booster shot.
