BMS’ capture of Celgene caught much attention, due to the size and scale of the acqusition, but rival companies have taken the chance to snap up employees that have left after the deal.
GSK signs partnership deal with the University of California to advance genomic research, which sees the creation of a lab and funding for five years of research.
Vertex agrees to acquire Exonics and to expand its collaboration with CRISPR Therapeutics, which sees it invest $420m in upfront payments to develop its position in gene therapy.
As the cell and gene therapies market evolves, CDMOs and pharmaceutical companies aim to adapt to the rising demands and serve larger patient populations.
Servier to work with Yposeski for the production of lentiviral vectors, as the former works to develop allogenic CAR-T cell technology for hematological therapies.
Amgen and Takeda will join fellow big pharma companies Sanofi, GSK, and Janssen, in working to progress Feldan’s intracellular drug delivery technology.
Aldevron announces the expansion of its headquarters’ campus by half a million-square-feet, which will see annual capacity exceed $1bn of biologic products.
Fujifilm Life Science Strategic Business Office will open a site in Cambridge, Massachusetts in an aim to further link up with the surrounding pharmaceutical and biotech community.
Thermo Fisher and Scinogy partner to improve scalability and cost-effectiveness of cell and gene therapy manufacture through the addition of the former’s centrifuge.
Bluebird has received EU conditional marketing approval for patients with transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia, becoming the first treatment from its pipeline to receive approval.
The private equity firm Ampersand Capital has acquired Vibalogics with plans to increase development and manufacturing capabilities for complex viral products.
