Seattle Genetics paid Bristol-Myers Squibb $17.8m for the biomanufacturing site and says it will spend a further $25.5m on equipment and improvements to support antibody production.
Morphotek Inc has launched an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) services business incorporating its RESPECT site-specific conjugation technology and eribulin-linker toxin platform.
A two-step manufacturing process makes antibody-drug conjugate production expensive and causes stability issues, says Eleven Biotherapeutics which is fusing antibody fragments to cytotoxic proteins.
Contract manufacturer Goodwin Biotechnology will work with Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation (MMRF) to develop vaccines to treat opioid addiction.
The US FDA has cleared Seattle Genetics to restart trials of its blood cancer candidate vadastuximab talirine that were halted last year after patient deaths.
Pfizer has resubmitted its antibody-drug conjugate Mylotarg (gemtuzumab ozogamicin) for regulatory review almost seven years after withdrawing it from the market.
Shark antibodies are an attractive way to deliver biologics to the brain, says Ossianix which is using its blood-brain barrier (BBB) crossing technology in collaboration with Lundbeck.
Catalent will continue to develop and manufacture a non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) for Triphase Accelerator Corporation after licensing out the candidate.
Differentiated technologies buoyed by the recent $600m conjugation deal with Roche is driving Catalent’s biologics business, the firm told Biopharma-Reporter at BIO.
Three deals in the last week signal AbbVie’s strategy in immuno-oncology but are just the latest examples of Big Biopharma’s trend for clinical partnerships.
Triazamacrocyclic lipid complexes increase the efficiency of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) by delivering the payload right into the heart of a cancer cell, says BioCellChallenge.
Pfizer has invested $46m in separate collaborations with four R&D companies specialising in developing ADCs, immuno-oncology candidates and gene-therapies.
Pfizer and Bioatla have licensed each other’s technology platforms to develop ADCs with Conditionally Active Biologic (CAB) antibodies as the payload delivery vehicles.
Abzena is set to buy The Chemistry Research Solution (TCRS) in a deal one analyst says shows the firm’s intentions to dominate the bio-conjugation space.
Piramal chief executive Vivek Sharma won last week’s CPhI award for the pharma industry’s CEO of the year. Outsourcing-Pharma.com spoke to Sharma about his plans for the CDMO the day after the jury’s unanimous decision.
CDMO Ajinomoto Althea is opening a new facility to offer outsourced ADC (antibody drug conjugate) and HPAPI (highly potent active pharmaceutical ingredient) manufacturing, the Californian company has announced.
A bispecific antibody developed by Roche subsidiary Chugai has been granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation by the US FDA for the treatment of haemophilia A.
Innovate UK has awarded Crescendo Biologics a grant to fund development of drugs combining cytotoxic small molecule payloads with antibody fragments known as Humabodies.
India-based CMO Piramal has acquired US-based sterile injectable CDMO (contract development and manufacturing organization) Coldstream Laboratories for $30.65m.
Sanofi has selected Boehringer-Ingelheim to manufacture monoclonal antibodies in an agreement that extends to the French drugmaker's partner Regeneron.
The Scripps Research Institute has created a nicotine conjugate vaccine with a technique it says could also treat cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine addiction.
The $20m funding led by Pfizer Venture Investments will help advance a platform to make Probodies which CytomX says offers more precise tumour targeting than antibodies.
An API facility in Singapore acquired by AbbVie on the site where it is building a $320m biologics plant will support the firm's antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) pipeline.
European authorities have revoked a Regeneron patent covering a genetic modification technique used to generate mouse monoclonal antibody (mAb) production platforms after an appeal by several European firms.
Seattle Genetics and Genmab have entered into another antibody-drug conjugate (ADC)partnership under which Genmab will pay $11m upfront for use of Seattle’s auristatin-based ADC technology.
Sanofi and Regeneron may overtake Roche and Astrazeneca at the head of the increasingly monoclonal antibody (mAb) dominated asthma treatment market according to an industry analyst.
Carbogen Amcis has expanded its operations in light of unrelenting demand for antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) services by signing a long-term lease for a facility in Switzerland.
Lonza has invested in single-use technology at its Swiss clinical manufacturing facility citing a rise in demand as customer’s grow their antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) pipelines.
A government funded bioprocessing institute is helping to drive biopharma investment and retrain workers in Ireland, and Biopharma-Reporter.com visited to find out what happens in this "flight simulator for biopharma manufacturing."
Ambrx says it will use its antibody platform in its collaboration with Zhejiang Hisun Pharmaceutical Company to develop and commercialise bispecifics for the treatment of cancer.
Novasep has made a $5.5m (€4m) investment to expand its highly potent active pharmaceutical ingredients (HPAPI) manufacturing capabilities at its Le Mans facility in France.
Increased demand for mammalian technologies will boost Lonza further when a new Swiss facility comes online offering “unique” complete development and manufacturing ADC services, the firm says.
SAFC (Sigma-Aldrich Corporation) says it will invest across its life science businesses following a first quarter that saw “weak” contract manufacturing but flourishing viral and cell media sectors.
Recent investments in antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) technology will translate into more products on the market, but it will take time says Polytherics who has extended its licensing deal with MacroGenics.
