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Boehringer Ingelheim licenses CureVac mRNA vaccine for up to $600m

Boehringer Ingelheim licenses CureVac mRNA vaccine for up to $600m

By Zachary Brennan

Boehringer Ingelheim will pay mRNA drug developer CureVac up to €465m ($600m) for an exclusive global license and development collaboration on CureVac’s potential mRNA vaccine in early clinical development for the treatment of lung cancer. 

Pfizer eyes Parkinson’s disease treatments with MedGenesis pact

Pfizer eyes Parkinson’s disease treatments with MedGenesis pact

By Zachary Brennan

Biotech company MedGenesis Therapeutix has granted Pfizer an exclusive, worldwide option to license its glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) protein and convection enhanced delivery (CED) technology to be used in research for potential treatments...

Pfenex set for new direction as it uses its expression technology to develop its biosimilar pipeline

Pfenex focuses on biosimilars post IPO

By Dan Stanton

Revenues from protein production will decline as Pfenex shifts attention to its biosimilar pipeline, the newly public company says.

EU green lights first insulin biosimilar from Lilly, BI

EU green lights first insulin biosimilar from Lilly, BI

By Zachary Brennan

The EU’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) adopted a positive opinion and recommended granting a marketing authorisation to Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly’s biosimilar insulin treatment for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes patients.

GE Healthcare to in-license Promosome mammalian cell lines

GE to in-license Promosome mammalian cell lines

By Zachary Brennan

GE Healthcare Life Sciences has signed a licensing agreement for Promosome’s suite of mammalian cell line development technologies, which aim to increase protein expression in mammalian cell culture. 

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J&J and EGA differ on safety impact of same INNs for biosimilars

By Fiona Barry

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has called on the US FDA to prevent biosimilars being given the same non-proprietary names as their original biologics, while the European Generics Association maintains the practice is “proven to be safe” and “supported...

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