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.
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...
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.
Contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), Recipharm, has acquired GenIbet, a Portuguese CDMO, specializing in the manufacture of biological clinical trial material.
Contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), Recipharm, says it has inked a deal with a top 10 big pharma company to support vaccine manufacturing from its facility in Kaysersberg, France.
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.
Protagen, BioAnalytix, and GeneWerk this week announced their unified operations and re-brand as ProtaGene, a CRO partner for the biologics and cell and gene therapy developers, from discovery to commercialization.
Healthcare investors, GHO Capital Partners LLP, have invested in Scotland based, RoslinCT, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) focused on advanced cell therapies.
Wheeler Bio, a newly established company aiming accelerate the translation of therapeutic innovation into clinical impact, recently closed a US$14m seed financing round.
Life science investor group, Novo Holdings, has agreed to buy Ritedose, the largest sterile CDMO in the US focused on advanced blow-fill-seal technology, from Hong-Kong based, AGIC Capital, and China’s Humanwell.
Abu Dhabi-based entities, the sovereign wealth fund, Mubadala Investment Company, and AI and cloud computing specialist, G42, are to set up a biopharma campus there; the move is aimed at bolstering biopharma linked innovation, R&D and manufacturing...
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.
SGS, the Swiss-based testing, inspection and certification company, has acquired Quay Pharma, a UK based pharmaceutical industry targeted contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO).
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.
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.
Catalent is reporting that the technology transfer for the manufacture of BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics’ autologous cellular therapy at its facility in Houston, Texas has been finalized.
Fujifilm Irvine Scientific, Inc, is to build a new bioprocessing center in China, with the goal of ensuring local cell culture media optimization support for vaccines, advanced therapies, and biotherapeutic drug development.
Genezen, a cell and gene therapy focused CDMO, has just opened a new process development and analytical lab, a build that represents the first phase of a 75,000+ square foot cGMP-compliant lentiviral and retroviral vector production facility in Indianapolis.
Several contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) supported biopharma projects have been flagged in the past month. We take a closer look.
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...
Be the Match BioTherapies (BTMB) says it is critical that resilient cell sourcing infrastructures exist when cell and gene therapies (CGT) surge to market.
