Fujifilm Corporation is to invest US$1.6bn (€1.4bn) to boost the business of its subsidiary, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies (FDB), a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO).
UK pharma group, Croda International, has inked a deal with the US government in which it will receive up to US$75m to expand its US manufacturing capacity for lipid systems.
The European Commission (EC) has approved Kite’s CAR T-cell therapy, Yescarta, (axicabtagene ciloleucel) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma (FL) after three or more lines of systemic therapy.
VIVEbiotech has completed the latest expansion phase of its lentiviral vector manufacturing capabilities; the development is aimed at alleviating the viral vector bottleneck for advanced therapies.
Merck has doubled its high-potent active pharmaceutical ingredients (HPAPI) production capacity with the expansion of its facility in Verona, Wisconsin, US.
The BIO International Convention in San Diego this week heard the US-based Center for Breakthrough Medicines (CBM) is to speed up plans to build what it calls the largest cell therapy manufacturing operation worldwide.
Evonik will build a production facility for pharmaceutical lipids in Indiana: with the new site ‘positioning the group for future growth in novel mRNA-based therapies beyond COVID-19 vaccines’.
Eli Lilly and Company plans to expand its manufacturing footprint in Indiana by investing $2.1bn in two new manufacturing sites at Indiana's LEAP Lebanon Innovation and Research District in Boone County.
As part of a wider expansion project, Merck commits to expanding an existing facility and building an entirely new one, as part of its strategy to focus on investment in Ireland.
AGC Biologics will add viral vector suspension technology and capacity for the development and manufacturing of gene therapies at its commercial-grade campus in Longmont, Colorado.
Gerresheimer has enhanced its manufacturing capabilities in India, in an effort to ensure consistent, local supply for pharma and healthcare operations.
CDMO Matica Bio has opened a new 45,000-square-foot facility dedicated to the production of viral vectors and cell-based products used in cell and gene therapies, vaccines, oncolytic therapies and other genetic medicines.
Catalent has announced a multi-year $350m investment at its facility in Bloomington, Indiana, to expand biologics drug substance and drug product manufacturing capabilities.
Bionova Scientific, a US biologics CDMO, is to be acquired by the US arm of Asahi Kasei Medical, part of the Asahi Kasei Group, owned by Tokyo based Asahi Kasei Corporation.
Kite, a Gilead company, says the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved commercial production at the company's new CAR T-cell therapy manufacturing facility in Frederick, Maryland.
List Bio, together with List Labs, is set to build a new US$125m plant in Indiana, offering end-to-end manufacturing for early-stage development through to commercial production of new microbiome therapeutics.
Germany has made a series of contracts with vaccine manufacturers to reserve mRNA manufacturing capacity in the country as part of its pandemic preparedness plans.
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.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted commercial licensure approval for Novartis’ Durham, N.C. site, a multi-product gene therapy manufacturing facility, which will start producing Zolgensma immediately.
The US FDA has approved Yescarta, Kite's CAR-T cell therapy, for initial treatment in adults with large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL) that is refractory to one prior therapy or that relapses within 12 months of first-line chemoimmunotherapy.
Abzena, a global CDMO specializing in the integrated development and manufacture of complex biologics and bioconjugates, has secured $65M in new funding.
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CytoImmune Therapeutics, a clinical-stage immunotherapy company developing a novel class of engineered natural killer (NK) cell-based cancer therapies, has announced the opening of its clinical cell manufacturing facility in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico.
Exothera, a CDMO specializing in the industrialization of vaccine and gene therapy processes, reports that it has achieved GMP certification for its facilities in Jumet, Belgium.
Moderna has finalized a strategic partnership with the Australian government to build an mRNA manufacturing facility in Melbourne: which is expected to produce up to 100 million mRNA respiratory vaccine doses annually.
A California based biotech has tripled its capacity to manufacture GMP grade induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) space through the expansion of its contract development and manufacturing (CDMO) facility.
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.
Flow Eighteen38, a protein sciences division created to facilitate and accelerate antibody characterization and protein purification projects, has announced a €5m ($5.58m) investment into its protein production and biophysical characterization capabilities...
mRNA pioneer Moderna has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of the Republic of Kenya to establish an mRNA manufacturing facility in the country.
Charles River recently announced the expansion of its plasmid DNA and viral vector development and manufacturing capabilities in Europe; it says the move is to support the growing need of customers and to safeguard future supply.
A global biomanufacturing training hub will be established in Korea to serve low- and middle-income countries wishing to produce biologicals such as vaccines, insulin, monoclonal antibodies and cancer treatments.
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.
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.
CDMO Piramal Pharma Solutions will expand capabilities of its Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) facility in Grangemouth, Scotland; and invest in new Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) infrastructure at its Morpeth, England facility.
Polyplus, a provider of transfection reagents, has acquired e-Zyvec, a France-based provider of DNA design and production services for tailor-made DNA vectors to expand expertise in plasmid DNA vector engineering.
AES Clean Technology, a supplier of cleanroom facilities for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical sectors, is ploughing $14.2m into a new US manufacturing facility.
