UK contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), Upperton Pharma Solutions, has completed the build of its new development and GMP manufacturing headquarters in Nottingham, UK.
Science and technology company Merck has announced the expansion of its facility in Lenexa, Kansas, USA, adding 9,100 sq m2 of lab space and production capability to manufacture cell culture media.
UK immersive technology company FourPlus, along with collaborators Holosphere and the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, have been awarded funding from Innovate UK to create and test a mixed-reality training platform for pharmaceutical and healthcare companies....
Meissa Vaccines, a clinical-stage biotech company developing vaccines to prevent viral respiratory infections, has entered into a manufacturing agreement with contract research development organization (CRDMO) Exothera.
Last month, CDMO giant Samsung Biologics revealed it was planning to have its fifth plant operational by April 2025, five months earlier than previously anticipated.
Donaldson, a provider of filtration products and solutions, has acquired Univercells Technologies, a producer of biomanufacturing solutions for cell and gene therapy research, development, and commercial manufacturing, to broaden its life sciences reach....
Astraveus, the creator of modular, microfluidic cell foundries for cell and gene therapy (CGT) manufacturing, has raised €16.5 million in series seed financing.
Mimetas, a biotech company developing human organ-on-a-chip tissue models and products for drug development, has expanded its ongoing partnership with global pharmaceutical company Astellas, to include automation and application support.
Oliva Therapeutics, a healthcare company focused on product commercialization, sales, marketing, distribution, and promotion, has announced its new long-term partnership with Rio Biopharmaceuticals, for the exclusive North American supply and distribution...
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Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has launched a new commercial-scale contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) called Lifera.
As the global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) market continues to grow, we caught up with Federico Pollano, SVP business development at Rentschler Biopharma, at Bio International 2023, to discuss the company's ongoing growth...
Back in May, Cytiva completed its integration with Pall Life Sciences, a move that CEO Emmanuel Ligner now describes as a “winning recipe” which has improved the company’s supply chain and fostered industry collaboration.
CDMO Wheeler Bio, Inc. has welcomed Charles River’s flexible biologics testing lab, RightSource, to its Oklahoma City drug substance manufacturing site.
Providence Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing mRNA vaccines and therapeutics, has announced its partnership with University Health Network (UHN).
Lonza has acquired Synaffix B.V., a biotech company focused on commercializing its clinical-stage technology platform for the development of antibody drug conjugates (ADCs).
Bora Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company that provides solutions for the development, manufacturing, and packaging of pharmaceutical products. In the large molecule space, it offers comprehensive services from the development of mammalian cell...
HexisLab, a UK biotech company, has secured a £490,000 funding grant from Innovate UK to develop a scale-up manufacturing process for its novel sustainable and green ingredients.
Cellular Origins has partnered with ScaleReady, to automate portions of its cell and gene therapies (CGT) manufacturing workflow using a robotics system for sterile liquid transfer.
Hansa Biopharma and Genethon have entered a research and development collaboration to test imlifidase as a gene therapy treatment in patients with pre-existing neutralizing antibodies.
Fusion Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage oncology company, has announced the opening of its new state-of-the-art radiopharmaceutical manufacturing facility at Ontario-based McMaster University.
The South Korean company is set to create a new facility in West Virginia to house insulin manufacturing and to deliver its insulin products in the country.
Sensible Biotechnologies will partner with Ginkgo Bioworks to develop an in vivo microbial mRNA manufacturing platform – aiming to address a major bottleneck in mRNA manufacturing.
PackGene Biotech, an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector contract research organization (CRO) and contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), is expanding its US services with a new cGMP biomanufacturing and processing facility in Houston....
Genentech is to build a new biologics facility at its Oceanside, California campus that it says will be at the forefront of next-generation manufacturing and environmentally sustainable production for small-batch commercial biologics.
An agreement between the two countries means they can use each other’s good manufacturing practice inspections of pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities and avoid the need for duplicate inspections.
Many life science professionals say they are ‘cautiously positive’ about the outlook for their industry in 2023, although highlight it won’t be all plain sailing.
While the pandemic brought new entrants into the market, vaccine manufacturing remains a complex activity undertaken by a limited number of companies with the overall picture largely unchanged by COVID-19.
A ‘significant shift’ is under way in global outsourcing strategies: with the sector moving away from phase-appropriate development in favor of a more forward-looking model – with experts advising starting the search for an outsourcing partner as early...
A representative from life-science services company Azzur Group explains how flexibility and speed can help in reaching the best solution more efficiently.
Charles River Laboratories International and ASC Therapeutics have announced plans to manufacture ASC618, a second-generation gene therapy for hemophilia A.
The agreement, which was made in coordination between the US army and BARDA, will see Jubilant expand its injectable filling production capacity to prepare for future pandemics.
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.
An expert from Pharmatech Associates offers a glimpse into the evolution of CM and previews a lively discussion during the upcoming CPhI North America event.
A leader from the organizer of the pharmaceutical event discusses what’s in store for the upcoming conference, and for the drug development industry itself.
CPhI North America 2022 host city Philadelphia is set to become one of the world’s biggest cell and gene therapy manufacturing hubs. But it’s just one of many centers of innovation that are helping drive the US pharma and biopharma industry.
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.
