BioMarin will buy Pfizer’s biologics manufacturing plant in Shanbally, Cork, Ireland to add production capacity for its candidate mucopolysaccharidosis treatment.
UK-based drugmaker Shire has unveiled plans to buy Advanced BioHealing (ABH) citing the lack of generic competition in the regenerative medicines sector as a factor.
World Street Fundamentals (WSF), the financial research specialist, has released two industry reports highlighting the mixed fortunes of biotech firms Biodel and MannKind, but claims a “brighter decade” lies ahead for the biotech sector.
Tokyo, Japan-based digital imaging specialist, Fujifilm, has agreed a deal to buy US drug giant Merck and Co's BioManufacturing Network, including two biotech manufacturing plants.
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Biopharm are increasingly assessing the threat counterfeiting and diversion pose to emerging biotechs when planning an acquisition, according to a white paper.
Genzyme has rejected Sanofi-Aventis' $18.5bn (€14.5bn) takeover bid, describing it as offering no improvement in price on the previous proposal and failing “to establish a basis for engagement.”
Improving safety and efficacy coupled with drug industry desire for “stronger” patents will drive growth of the biologics sector over the next five years, according to new research.
Imclone has closed the manufacturing facility in Branchburg, New Jersey where it produces the cancer drug Erbitux, according to reports in the US media.
SAFC Pharma has added extra viral and biologics capacity at its California plant in a $12m project that allows it to take projects from the lab to commercial scale.
Basel-headquartered Roche has paid fellow Swiss firm Lonza $290m (€203m) for its Singapore biologics plant in a bid to secure long-term manufacturing capacity for biotech cancer drugs.
Pfizer’s new $214.8 million (€150m) biotechnology facility in Strangnas, Sweden was inaugurated yesterday, securing the country’s future in the company’s manufacturing network according to global manufacturing president Natale Ricciardi.
US biotechnology group OSI Pharmaceuticals will move HQ to a facility in Greenburgh, New York due, according to observers, to the high cost of land at its current base in Long Island.
Novartis and Jubilant Organosys are among several companies forced to recall generic drugs after manufacturing operations at their shared CMO, India’s MJ Biopharm, were found to be in breach of GMP guidelines.
in-Pharmatechnologist's Nick Taylor looks back on BIO 2009, an event at which uncertainty about the development of the biotechnology industry’s future shape dominated proceedings.
HEM Pierre Vimont, Ambassador of France to the US, was at BIO 2009 talking about the measures his nation have taken to attract biotechs, including the introduction of the "most favourable R&D tax in Europe".
Drug delivery specialist Hospira has set up a “biologics clock” that counts the amount spent on cell culture-derived medications in the US in a bid to highlight the potential savings greater use of generics could provide.
Massachusetts Biotechnology Council’s (MBC) 2015 strategic plan has outlined the difficulties the state faces in attracting biomanufacturing and called for increased focus on R&D.
Merck & Co is investing an additional €20m ($27m) in its biologics plant in Carlow, Ireland just weeks after it unveiled plans to create a “powerful biologics presence” through its $41bn move for fellow US drug giant Schering-Plough.
Faced with a tougher operating environment, Irish drugmaker Elan has decided to slash staff numbers by 230 – or around 14 per cent of its total workforce – shelve the construction of a new biologics manufacturing facility and shutter fill-and-finish capacity...
Crucell and DSM Biologics have added fellow Dutch firm Bioceros to the PER.C6 vendor network to provide manufacturing and support capacity in line with increased demand for the cell line.
Dr Rajashekar Reddy, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, India presided over the inauguration ceremony for Biological E’s new INR3bn ($61m) vaccine and biopharmaceuticals manufacturing campus.
Late last week the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded Novartis a $490m contract to continue work on its cell-culture influenza vaccine plant in Holly Springs, North Carolina, US. in-PharmaTechnologist spoke with Novartis spokesman...
Positive noises from an FDA panel on GTC Biotherapeutics’ recombinant antithrombin ATryn may further the use of transgenic animals for drug production but should the manufacturing process rather than the drug’s safety be our prime concern?
The number of public biotechs will plummet in 2009 to 250 as difficulties in securing funding results in mergers, acquisitions and bankruptcies, according to the CEO of a life science investment company.
The completion of trial batches of Siga Technologies’ smallpox treatment ST-246 could not have been better timed following as it does the recomendation that the Obama government raise the threat of bio-terror up its list of concerns.
Biotech bodies from around the globe have been calling on their respective governments to provide stimulus packages to compensate for the current difficulties in obtaining credit.
Irish drugmaker Elan, which recently dropped plans to sell its Elan Drug Technologies operation, has announced job cuts and the closure of offices in a bid to save cash.
India’s industry has been boosted by news that 20 more biotech parks are to be set up and financial actions are being implemented to help small businesses.
The challenges in establishing a regulatory pathway for biogenerics were discussed at a recent FTC roundtable, with a FDA official saying in most cases it will be “impossible” to establish that the APIs are identical.
The possible sell-off of Enzon Pharmaceuticals’ biotechnology drugs business has come under fire by one of the firm’s shareholders, DellaCamera Capital Management, which says it is opposed to the move.
Taiwan’s efforts to position itself as a major biotechnology hub received a further boost today with the opening of Merck KGaA’s dedicated technology training centre in Xizhi City, Taipei County.
Abraxis has licensed rights to use ProMetic’s protein technology in the development of four new biopharmaceuticals that it hopes will generate around $600m (€422.5m) in US sales.
An increase in the sale of vaccines such as Quinvaxem and Epaxal, helped Dutch drugmaker Crucell reduce its loss some 56 per cent to €7.9m ($12.5m) in the second quarter.
