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 biologics CDMO market is expected to grow by US$8.65bn from 2021 to 2026, at a CAGR of 12.2% during the forecast period, according to new market data from Technavio.
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.
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.
Marken, the clinical trial logistics subsidiary of UPS Healthcare, is adding significant capacity to support increased demand for its clinical drug supply chain services, particularly for cell and gene clinical trials.
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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.
The global vaccines market will develop at a rate of 6% through to 2025, driven by national need for immunization programs and expansion into different therapeutic areas.
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.
The Senate has passed a bill authorising spending on the development of products to protect the US against pandemic influenza and other biological threats to public health.
WuXi Biologics announces its latest expansion, with plans for a drug development and commercial manufacturing site with a potential bioreactor capacity of 144,000L.
Diverse leadership provides more opportunity for innovation and higher performance in financial return, says diversity and inclusion chair and biotech executive.
UK-based investors launch Start Codon to recruit up to 50 start-up biotech companies for investment and risk mitigation opportunities over the next five years.
The US FDA issues Biocon a Form 483 with two observations, including failure to establish proper aseptic practices and lack of follow-up on data discrepancies.
As technology has advanced, rare diseases have been met with therapies that target the cause of the condition, enabling the global market for orphan drugs to reach an expected $262bn by 2024.
Biogen agrees Nightstar acquisition for $800m to take on its pipeline of AAV treatments for retinal disorders, diversifyingy its pipeline in the rare disease market.
The market for cell therapy products is set to expand based on increasing investment from the industry and the implementation of advanced manufacturing technologies.
The global cell line development market grows steadily with a predicted revenue of $7.5bn by 2024, each component of the market to see CAGR between 10-15%.
The WHO establishes a multi-disciplinary committee to advise on the ethical and scientific challenges of human genome editing, as the technology’s capability and utilization grows in the industry.
The introduction of the SPC manufacturing waiver will generate billions in export sales and create a number of jobs across the EU, suggests Medicines for Europe.
NICE recommends CAR T-cell treatment Kymirah to be covered by the Cancer Drugs Fund to treat adult patients with lymphoma, despite previous negative appraisals.
Fujifilm Diosynth announces the inception of its FDB center of excellence in bioprocessing 2.0 to extend its bioprocessing innovations with a network of researchers.
