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Catalent buys UK vaccine manufacturing centre

By Rachel Arthur

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.

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Milestone approval for Kite CAR-T cell therapy

By Jane Byrne

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.

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Novartis inks contract manufacturing deal with Carisma

By Jane Byrne

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.

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Flow Eighteen38 to double protein purification capacity

By Rachel Arthur

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...

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Moderna to build mRNA manufacturing site in Kenya

By Rachel Arthur

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.

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SGS acquires live biotherapeutics focused CDMO

By Jane Byrne

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).