Capital investments in Swiss biotech companies reached CHF 3.33bn ($3.53bn) in 2021; while R&D investments increased to a record-high CHF 2.56bn ($2.71bn).
Germany has made a series of contracts with vaccine manufacturers to reserve mRNA manufacturing capacity in the country as part of its pandemic preparedness plans.
US company Catalent is acquiring the UK’s Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre in Harwell: a facility which had been planned to support COVID-19 and wider vaccine production and which is still under construction.
eTheRNA Manufacturing, a specialist RNA process developer and manufacturing member of the eTheRNA group, has introduced a new lipid nanoparticle (LNP) formulation, development and production service.
While skills shortages present one of the main challenges to the biopharma industry, North Carolina believes its investments in the life science ecosystem have given it a ‘multiple decade jumpstart’ in building a successful biopharma hub for both manufacturing...
Janssen’s Carvykti, a therapy for multiple myeloma, has been approved for conditional marketing authorization (CMA) by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
Moderna has finalized a strategic partnership with the Australian government to build an mRNA manufacturing facility in Melbourne: which is expected to produce up to 100 million mRNA respiratory vaccine doses annually.
There were 168 Advanced Therapy Medicinal Product (ATMP) trials ongoing in the UK in 2021, compared to the 154 studies reported the previous year, a 9% increase, finds a new report.
Catalent completes expansion of its biologics manufacturing network by upgrading its Limoges, France, location with additional capacity and the ability to produce large molecules.
Moderna announced a new supply agreement with the Swiss federal government today for seven million doses of its COVID-19 booster vaccine for anticipated delivery in 2023.
Novartis continues down the third-party manufacturing route, as it secures an agreement with Carisma Therapeutics, a firm developing a cell therapy platform focused on engineered macrophage-based therapeutics.
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.
Last week saw the WHO announce the first six countries that will receive the technology needed to produce mRNA vaccines on the African continent, as part of the global mRNA technology transfer hub project.
The US biotech says it will establish a commercial presence in Belgium, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden to support the delivery of mRNA vaccines and therapeutics locally.
AES Clean Technology, a supplier of cleanroom facilities for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical sectors, is ploughing $14.2m into a new US manufacturing facility.
US government agency, BARDA, is drawing on industry feedback to assist it in understanding the advanced developmental landscape of next-generation COVID-19 vaccines.
Valneva announced yesterday that results from a lab study showed three doses of its inactivated COVID-19 vaccine candidate, VLA2001, neutralized the Omicron variant.
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.
The UK government's Vaccine Taskforce (VTF) is looking to increase its understanding of barriers, risks, and opportunities to facilitate investment in the vaccine supply chain.
Life science investor group, Novo Holdings, has agreed to buy Ritedose, the largest sterile CDMO in the US focused on advanced blow-fill-seal technology, from Hong-Kong based, AGIC Capital, and China’s Humanwell.
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.
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.
As capital project delivery ramps back up to pre-pandemic levels over the coming months and years, the smaller biopharma players are looking outside their own resources for strategic manufacturing and research support, confirms a new market outlook from...
A new report reveals that “speed-to-market” has jumped up from a lower-ranking business driver before the pandemic to the top priority today for biopharma companies, overtaking cost-based considerations by a healthy margin.
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.
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.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has amended the emergency use authorizations (EUA) for Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines: authorizing the use of a booster shot for all individuals aged 18+.
A new specialized lab, office and collaboration space for over 100 life science and health technology professionals, entrepreneurs, and researchers was recently announced for The Campus, Cherrywood in South Dublin, Ireland.
CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, has announced the first funding awards under a $200m program to advance development of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 variants and other betacoronaviruses.
A clinical trial is exploring the use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as an intranasal vaccine: seeing if the new route of administration could improve protection against infection and transmission.
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Novartis has signed a new initial agreement with BioNTech for COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing: with its sterile manufacturing facilities in Ljubljana, Slovenia, to fill at least 24 million doses in 2022.
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.
CureVac is withdrawing its first-generation COVID-19 vaccine candidate, CVnCoV, from regulatory review: instead it is re-allocating its efforts to its second-generation vaccine program with GSK. ‘The goal has not changed, but the requirements to effectively...
AstraZeneca's AZD7442, a long acting antibody (LAAB) combination, achieved a statistically significant reduction in severe COVID-19 or death compared to placebo in non-hospitalised patients with mild-to-moderate symptomatic COVID-19.
