Aspect Biosystems and Novo Nordisk have announced a collaboration, development, and licence agreement to develop bioprinted tissue therapeutics to replace or repair biological functions in the body: with the aim of creating a ‘new class of truly disease-modifying...
Novo Nordisk and Microsoft have entered a new strategic collaboration to combine Microsoft’s computational services, cloud, and artificial intelligence (AI) with Novo Nordisk’s drug discovery, development, and data science capabilities.
Novo Nordisk has announced positive results from a Phase 3 study assessing the efficacy and safety of concizumab, its prophylactic treatment of hemophilia A or B with inhibitors.
Through funding by Novo Nordisk and the NIH, researchers from MIT have come up with a microneedle containing capsule able to release drug substance into the bloodstream.
Novo Nordisk partners with bluebird on a three-year research arrangement looking to discover gene therapy candidates for the treatment of genetic diseases, including hemophilia.
Novo Holdings invests £53.5m in Oxford Biomedica, funds which the company will use to further develop its LentiVector platform for cell and gene therapies.
The Danish drugmaker announced that job losses at the company will number 1,300 before the end of the year, with the majority of those already having left their roles.
In a significant move at the larger end of the biopharma world, AstraZeneca’s global VP of cardiovascular, renal and metabolism made the move to Novo Nordisk to head up its biopharm unit.
Novo Nordisk will take over the lease of a manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, where the company will make stem cell-based therapies with optionally licensed technology.
Novo Nordisk has called on the board of directors at Ablynx to engage in negotiations after the antibody-fragment tech firm rejected its €2.6bn ($3.1bn) acquisition offer.
Novartis will continue investing in its manufacturing network to support a biologics pipeline which includes five new biosimilars it expects to launch by 2020.
European authorities have revoked a Regeneron patent covering a genetic modification technique used to generate mouse monoclonal antibody (mAb) production platforms after an appeal by several European firms.
Novo Nordisk has bought a biomanufacturing facility earmarked for closure by Olympus Biotech and begun rehiring staff in order to support its haemophilia product pipeline.
GSK’s Eperzan (albiglutide) has become the first approved drug to use the Veltis half-life extension technology and, according to Novozymes, may make it a strong competitor in the GLP-1 agonist market.
