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.
Biogen's Phase 4 trial for Aduhelm – required by the FDA as part of last year's accelerated approval of the Alzheimer’s drug – will start screening patients in May.
Prothena has announced FDA clearance of IND for PRX012, a subcutaneous anti-amyloid beta antibody under investigation for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
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...
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.
Semarion Ltd, a University of Cambridge spin-out company combining materials engineering and cell biology to tackle unmet drug screening needs, has just closed a £2.14m (US$2.89m) seed funding round.
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.
Moderna has initiated the Phase 3 portion of its pivotal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine trial: looking towards its ultimate goal to combine the vaccine with its COVID-19 and flu boosters into a single dose booster.
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.
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.
Kyverna Therapeutics, a cell therapy company engineering a new class of therapies for autoimmune diseases, has closed an oversubscribed $85m Series B financing round led by Northpond Ventures.
Samsung Biologics flags further facility construction plans, with biologics, cell and gene therapies and next-generation vaccines to be the focus of those new sites.
Healthcare investors, GHO Capital Partners LLP, have invested in Scotland based, RoslinCT, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) focused on advanced cell therapies.
Pfizer and BioNTech, in what will be the third mRNA vaccine collaboration between the two companies, are teaming up on the development of a vaccine for the prevention of shingles.
Live biotherapeutic product (LBP) developer, 4D Pharma, which has been NASDAQ listed since March this year, has announced positive topline results for the first part of its Phase I/II trial of an LBP strain for the treatment of asthma.
There is a healthy appetite for continued investment in gene therapy, in new modalities and more indications, says an industry insider as he reflected on the prospects for the US gene therapy sector next year.
Lonza has signed a licensing agreement with clinical-stage biopharma, Zhejiang Doer Biologics, whereby the Hangzhou, China based biopharma company will develop multi-specific biotherapeutics using the Swiss CDMO’s XS Pichia.
Novartis has introduced its T-Charge platform at ASH 2021, which it says will serve as the foundation for various new investigational CAR-T cell therapies in its pipeline.
This month saw BioCina officially open its new biologics manufacturing facility in Adelaide, Australia, flagging it as the only TGA, EMA, Health Canada and US-FDA approved commercial facility of its kind in the country.
PDC*line Pharma, a clinical stage biotech company developing cancer vaccines, has completed its Series B2 round of financing, raising a total of €17.5m (US$20.3m) with Belgian and South-Korean investors.
Several contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) supported biopharma projects have been flagged in the past month. We take a closer look.
EverImmune, a biotech based near Paris, and specialized in the development of live biotherapeutic products in the field of microbiota oncology, has raised €5m (US$5.7m) in a Series A funding round from undisclosed private investors.
The EMA has validated Atara Biotherapeutics' Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for tabelecleucel (tab-cel), the first time an off-the-shelf allogeneic T-cell therapy will be evaluated by any regulatory agency in the world.
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.
Korean company, SK, is investing in the Philadelphia-based Center for Breakthrough Medicines (CBM), a move that will support the US company in its bid to become the world's largest end-to-end cell and gene therapy contract development and manufacturing...
Vaccibody, a Norway-based pioneer in the neoantigen cancer vaccine space, has changed its name to Nykode Therapeutics, and has entered into a license and collaboration agreement with US company, Regeneron, to develop vaccines against cancer and infectious...
Emulate, Inc recently launched the Zoë-CM2 Culture Module, a second-generation Zoë instrument core to its ‘Organ-on-a-Chip’ based Human Emulation System.
The race is on: Eli Lilly has begun the application for the approval of its Alzheimer's disease (AD) treatment in the US, potentially setting it up against rival Biogen's recently approved Aduhelm.
Culture Biosciences, a company enabling biotech firms to develop and scale manufacturing processes in the cloud, recently announced an $80m Series B round, taking the funds it has raised to date to $100m+.
Sphere Fluidics, a UK company that has developed and is commercializing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its picodroplet technology, has just closed a US$40m investment round.
Biomunex Pharmaceuticals, a French company focused on the discovery and development of bi- and multi-specific antibodies, sees its BiXAb5 project receive nearly €3m (US$3.5m) in the form of a grant from the French government.
Rentschler Biopharma and XL-protein have teamed up on the manufacture of what they say is a long-acting, hyperactive recombinant human deoxyribonuclease I (DNase I) that may open better treatment options for patients suffering from inflammation, chronic...
Waters has announced a five-year investment to develop new analytical technology for bioprocessing and biomanufacturing with the University of Delaware.
Absci Corporation says its newly opened campus in Vancouver, Washington, in the US, expands its ability to accelerate discovery and development of biologic drugs.
Locus Biosciences has entered a credit facility of up to US$25m with Hercules Capital, which it says will support the expansion of its precision engineered bacteriophage discovery platform engine and in-house manufacturing capacity.
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...
Lonza is investing to expand mammalian development services at its Singapore facility; the move will bring additional capacity for cell culture, purification, and analytical services for mammalian biologics.
