BeiGene’s immunotherapy becomes its first treatment to receive approval in China and Boehringer announces that it has begun manufacture of the product.
GE Healthcare assigns Pharmadule Morimatsu to expand the offering of its ‘factory in a box’, known as KUBio, enabling the scale-up of biologics manufacture.
The high growth rate in the uptake of biologics in emerging markets represents a major opportunity for those companies developing biosimilars, suggests one pharma exec.
Merck announces that it has reallocated Gardasil from the US CDC stockpiles, as a surge in demand sees revenues from the vaccine rise 26% year-on-year.
NIH and the Gates Foundation have set themselves the goal of bringing curative gene therapies to clinical trials in the US and Africa in the next seven to 10 years.
Shanghai Pharma and Biocad established a joint venture to commercialize the latter’s portfolio of biosimilars and biologic treatments for the Chinese market.
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.
In 1H financials, WuXi Biologics outlines positive developments across its ‘three major markets’, stressing that US growth is still strong despite US-China trade relations.
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.
Increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and treatment with biologics is expected to boost the prefilled syringes market by 10% in the next few years.
Celltrion has partnered with Nan Fung Group to create Vcell Healthcare, which will manufacture and commercialize three of Celltrion’s biosimilar products in China.
Vaccine research is still quite ‘empirical’ and there is a long way until it is turned into a rational, predictable modality, suggests director at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
