Fujifilm Corporation has launched a new global life sciences strategic investment fund: starting off with 7B¥ ($60m) targeting early-stage biotech companies.
Having built up its mRNA expertise with its COVID-19 vaccine, Pfizer now sets out its strategy for the future. “Going forward, we plan to continue to capitalize on the leadership we have built in both mRNA R&D and manufacturing."
Mission Bio says it is paving the way for the routine use of its technology in clinical trials on materials to support the next wave of life-saving CGT treatments.
Valneva and Pfizer have reported further positive Phase 2 data for their Lyme disease vaccine candidate, VLA15, with a Phase 3 trial set to start in Q3, 2022.
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) has launched a Call for Proposals to improve the thermostability of vaccines: with a particular interest in temperature-stable vaccine nasal sprays, microarray patches, or orally administered...
Biogen has exercised its option to participate in the development and commercialization of mosunetuzumab, an investigational T-cell engaging biospecific antibody targeting CD20 and CD3 in development for B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and other therapeutic...
Biogen releases further details on how its Phase 4 post-marketing confirmatory study for Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm, will run: including increased enrolment and enhanced efforts to encourage diversity.
Netherlands-based gene therapy company, VectorY Therapeutics, and Wageningen University have signed a strategic collaboration agreement for the development of novel baculovirus-based AAV production technologies.
Biotech EdiGene has announced an R&D collaboration with Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem to develop hematopoietic stem cell regenerative therapies and platform technology.
Pfizer and BioNTech expect to produce four billion doses of their COVID-19 vaccine in 2022: regardless of whether the current vaccine or a new Omicron specific vaccine is needed.
Charles River and La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) are collaborating on a new project to uncover how different cells in the human immune system respond to SARS-CoV-2 in early, acute infection.
Vir Biotechnology and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have partnered up to develop broadly neutralizing antibodies designed to provide a ‘vaccinal effect’ for the treatment of HIV and prevention of malaria.
While the last two years have seen the successful development of COVID-19 vaccines, the emergence of variants highlights the speed at which the pandemic - or indeed any other virus threat - can evolve. As a result, development of novel vaccine candidates...
BioNTech and Crescendo, a clinical stage immuno-oncology company developing targeted T cell enhancing therapeutics, have entered a multi-target discovery collaboration to develop novel immunotherapies for cancer and other diseases.
Alexion, AstraZeneca’s Rare Disease group, has entered into an exclusive global collaboration and licence agreement with Neurimmune AG for NI006, an investigational human monoclonal antibody currently in Phase Ib development for the treatment of transthyretin...
Bayer AG and Mammoth Biosciences, Inc., have announced a strategic collaboration and option agreement for the use of Mammoth’s CRISPR systems to develop in vivo gene-editing therapies.
Clover Biopharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biotech developing novel vaccines and biologic therapeutic candidates, has started construction on a new R&D Center in Zhangjiang Biotech and Pharmaceutical Industrial Base in Shanghai.
Pfizer and BioNTech, in what will be the third mRNA vaccine collaboration between the two companies, are teaming up on the development of a vaccine for the prevention of shingles.
Biopharmaceutical company ImmixBio has been granted Rare Pediatric Disease (RPD) designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for IMX-110 for the treatment of a life-threatening form of pediatric cancer in children, rhabdomyosarcoma.
Evotec SE has received a €7.5m ($8.5m) grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for the development of EVT075, a potential immunomodulatory therapy against COVID-19.
A booster shot of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine increases neutralizing antibody levels against Omicron approximately 37-fold compared to pre-boost levels, according to data released by the company today.
A single booster dose of Sanofi and GSK’s recombinant adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine candidate delivered ‘consistently strong immune responses’, according to data released by the companies.
Novartis has introduced its T-Charge platform at ASH 2021, which it says will serve as the foundation for various new investigational CAR-T cell therapies in its pipeline.
Oxford Biomedica plc has announced an extended commercial supply agreement with Novartis for the manufacture of lentiviral vectors for several Novartis CAR-T products.
Memo Therapeutics AG will receive CHF 10.5m (US $11.4m) from the Swiss government to clinically develop a SARS-CoV-2 antibody against COVID-19, allowing it to start Phase 1 studies in Q1, 2022.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and research service provider CTI Clinical Trial & Consulting Services will form a company to provide cell and gene therapy manufacturing services to the biotech and pharmaceutical industries.
Catalent is reporting that the technology transfer for the manufacture of BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics’ autologous cellular therapy at its facility in Houston, Texas has been finalized.
Two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine ‘may not be sufficient’ to protect against infection with the Omicron variant; but three doses of the vaccine neutralize the variant, according to a preliminary laboratory study released by the companies.
Trince, a spin-off of Ghent University (UGent) that is focused on advancing cell-based science and therapeutics by facilitating the delivery of molecules into cells, both in vitro and ex vivo, has raised €4m (US$4.5m) from investors.
Medicago and GSK’s plant-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate has reported an overall efficacy rate of 71% in Phase 3 trials: with the final regulatory submission for the vaccine to be filed with Health Canada shortly.
The Oxford-GSK Institute of Molecular and Computational Medicine has been created via a five-year collaboration between GlaxoSmithKline and the University of Oxford.
EverImmune, a biotech based near Paris, and specialized in the development of live biotherapeutic products in the field of microbiota oncology, has raised €5m (US$5.7m) in a Series A funding round from undisclosed private investors.
Chinook Therapeutics, Inc. has announced the formation of SanReno Therapeutics - a joint venture with an investor syndicate led by Frazier Healthcare Partners and Pivotal bioVenture Partners China - to develop, manufacture and commercialize kidney disease...
Australian biotech EnGeneIC, which is developing its nanocell tech for use in infectious diseases (including a COVID-19 vaccine) as well as a cancer treatment, has announced a deal with US biotech ImmunityBio to develop, manufacture and commercialize...
A new clinical trial of heterologous – or ‘mix-and-match’ – combinations of COVID-19 vaccines is set to start in Pakistan: seeking to add to research on the effectiveness of such combinations.
A centralized testing approach, developed by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and used by more than 30 COVID-19 vaccine developers, will be expanded to create a standardized evaluation model for other epidemic and pandemic disease...
Emulate, Inc recently launched the Zoë-CM2 Culture Module, a second-generation Zoë instrument core to its ‘Organ-on-a-Chip’ based Human Emulation System.
The company will increase its production capacity for media, buffers, and other process liquids to meet the surge in demand that occurred alongside the pandemic.
CRISPR Therapeutics and ViaCyte, Inc. have received the green light from Health Canada for their Clinical Trial Application for VCTX210: an allogeneic, gene-edited, immune-evasive, stem cell-derived therapy for the treatment of type 1 diabetes (T1D)....
