iBio grants CC-Pharming exclusive license to commercialize rituximab in China, as well as a research license to bring its FastPharming technology to the country.
Asia’s largest integrated insulins facility, operated by a subsidiary of Biocon in Malaysia, receives GMP compliance certification from Ireland’s HPRA.
Dr Reddy’s Laboratories enters a $31m market with the launch of Versavo, a biosimilar of Roche’s Avastin in India, indicated for several types of cancer.
Revance Therapeutics says developing a Botox biosimilar is “challenging, but not impossible” in reply to AbbVie’s dismissal of the prospect of a copy of the blockbuster coming to market.
The US District Court for the District of New Jersey ruled in Amgen’s favor on the validity of the two patents on Enbrel and the methods for making it.
Celltrion has partnered with Nan Fung Group to create Vcell Healthcare, which will manufacture and commercialize three of Celltrion’s biosimilar products in China.
The summer months are traditionally slow on movements across the industry, but July saw a number of manufacturing partnership deals take place as companies look ahead to product commercialization.
US FDA gives approval to Samsung Bioepis’ Humira biosimilar and Pfizer’s Rituxan biosimilar, as the number of such medicines gaining entry onto the US market steadily increases.
With US spending on biologics reaching $125.5bn in 2018, a new report looks at the level of savings that could potentially be made and contrasts the US with the European market.
The EMA looks to the future by posting its five key priorities to address in the coming five years, which includes the need to recruit expertise in ‘novel manufacturing technologies’.
The major trend so far in 2019 is the willingness to deploy capital to expand services in the cell and gene therapy sector, and we outline the five most significant deals thus far.
