A consortium of nine development and finance institutions have announced a partnership with South African vaccine manufacturer Biovac to support its manufacturing expansion.
A global biomanufacturing training hub will be established in Korea to serve low- and middle-income countries wishing to produce biologicals such as vaccines, insulin, monoclonal antibodies and cancer treatments.
Valneva has been awarded up to £20m ($27m) in R&D funding from Scottish Enterprise: which will be used to revive its plans to increase vaccine manufacturing in Scotland.
CDMO Piramal Pharma Solutions will expand capabilities of its Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) facility in Grangemouth, Scotland; and invest in new Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) infrastructure at its Morpeth, England facility.
Over the last 18 months, Aceto has made a series of manufacturing acquisitions, allowing it to better serve customers in biopharmaceutical, vaccine and pharmaceutical industries. It is now investing in several of its newly-acquired North American facilities:...
Orgenesis and The Johns Hopkins University will construct a cell and gene therapy processing facility for point of care treatment of patients at Johns Hopkins.
Performance Cell Manufacturing, a CDMO with a focus on manufacturing cell therapies, has been acquired by Great Point Partners and will now operate under the name Cellipont Bioservices.
Samsung Biologics will manufacture AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 long-lasting antibody combination (AZD7442) and cancer immunotherapy product from next year under an expanded partnership.
Moderna and the Australian government have announced an agreement in principle to build a mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in Victoria, Australia: providing up to 100 million doses a year.
This month saw BioCina officially open its new biologics manufacturing facility in Adelaide, Australia, flagging it as the only TGA, EMA, Health Canada and US-FDA approved commercial facility of its kind in the country.
Fujifilm Irvine Scientific, Inc, is to build a new bioprocessing center in China, with the goal of ensuring local cell culture media optimization support for vaccines, advanced therapies, and biotherapeutic drug development.
Genezen, a cell and gene therapy focused CDMO, has just opened a new process development and analytical lab, a build that represents the first phase of a 75,000+ square foot cGMP-compliant lentiviral and retroviral vector production facility in Indianapolis.
GreenLight Biosciences and CDMO Samsung Biologics have announced a partnership agreement, with Samsung Biologics to manufacture GreenLight’s messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccine candidate at commercial scale.
To further support the increasing number of pharma companies investing in microbials, Lonza is expanding its microbial development laboratories at its Visp, Switzerland site by 50%.
Culture Biosciences, a company enabling biotech firms to develop and scale manufacturing processes in the cloud, recently announced an $80m Series B round, taking the funds it has raised to date to $100m+.
Waters Corporation and Sartorius are partnering with the aim of providing bioprocess experts with direct access to high-quality mass spectrometry (MS) data to accelerate the speed and improve the accuracy of biopharmaceutical process development.
A leader from Medicines for Europe will share with CPhI Worldwide attendees a look at medicine production and offer solutions for elevating the industry.
During CPhI Worldwide, leaders from two organizations will outline how CM is taking off, potential benefits, and how to clear common obstacles to adoption.
BioNet and Sartorius’ BIA Separations are collaborating on production process development of mRNA vaccines: today announcing an optimized mRNA manufacturing process.
Construction of Samsung Biologics’ new facility is on track, with the CDMO saying pre-sales activities are ongoing for Plant 4, as it is known, despite the challenging business environment amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rentschler Biopharma and XL-protein have teamed up on the manufacture of what they say is a long-acting, hyperactive recombinant human deoxyribonuclease I (DNase I) that may open better treatment options for patients suffering from inflammation, chronic...
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Avid Bioservices, Inc. is expanding its CDMO service offering into the cell and gene therapy market: constructing a purpose-built 53,000 sq. ft. viral vector development and CGMP manufacturing facility in Costa Mesa, CA.
LEXEO Therapeutics, a clinical-stage gene therapy company, is partnering with CDMO, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies (FDB), to support the development and manufacturing of its AAV-mediated gene therapies.
Aceto expands GMP product lines for biopharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturing with acquisition of A&C Bio Buffer, growing its manufacturing footprint and strengthening its presence in Europe.
Lonza is investing to expand mammalian development services at its Singapore facility; the move will bring additional capacity for cell culture, purification, and analytical services for mammalian biologics.
Boehringer Ingelheim has inaugurated a state-of-the-art biopharmaceutical production facility in Vienna, Austria: representing the single largest investment in the company’s history.
Fujifilm Irvine Scientific Inc has started the commissioning phase of its new 250,000 square feet (22,800 square meter) cell culture media manufacturing facility in Tilburg, the Netherlands; the site joins existing plants in the US and Japan.
ViroCell Biologics and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) have formed a new partnership to immediately address the global viral vector manufacturing bottleneck for clinical trials
The biopharma industry continues to seek technologies that enable process control, while improving process development times and quality, says a Gamma Biosciences executive.
Synthetic DNA vector producer, Touchlight, has announced the extension of its fundraising round to a current aggregate total of US$125m (£92m). The financing was led by Bridford Investments Limited and Novator Partners.
AGC Biologics is expanding its Heidelberg facility to create new capacity for messenger RNA (mRNA) projects, and to boost its plasmid-DNA (pDNA) manufacturing capabilities.
CureVac is streamlining its external European manufacturing network for its mRNA product pipeline; having reassessed demand for its first-generation COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
3i Group plc has partnered with a former Lonza executive to create a ‘pure-play, patient-centric and sustainable’ biologics drug product contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO).
