Capital expenditure is rising across the pharma industry as portfolios and pipelines shift towards biologics, but the largest companies are sticking to in-house production.
Year-on-year, the number of trials for advanced therapeutics has doubled, meaning that the UK now represents 12% of all global clinical trials in the area.
The newly established deal includes the co-development of up to three T-cell therapies, by utilizing the latter’s stem-cell derived allogeneic T-cell platform.
Gavi establishes an Ebola vaccine program for the next five years, with a stockpile of vaccines created to be made available to low- and middle-income countries free of charge.
WuXi Biologics furthers its manufacturing presence in Ireland with a manufacturing facility for its vaccines subsidiary, which will be able to produce both drug substance and drug product.
Executives from the largest companies in the industry discuss the increasing prevalence of biologics and the future focus for therapeutics at Pharma Integrates.
After Finch Therapeutics extends partnership with Takeda, the biotech’s CEO outlines how next year could be a defining one for microbiome-based therapies.
GE to set up its FlexFactory platform for antibody manufacturing at Akeso’s facility in Guangzhou, aiming to optimize the latter’s biologics production.
Solid Biosciences announces that its gene therapy for DMD has been placed under clinical hold again, after a patient experienced a serious adverse event.
NIH and the Gates Foundation have set themselves the goal of bringing curative gene therapies to clinical trials in the US and Africa in the next seven to 10 years.
During this year’s Festival of Biologics conference, one track saw a focus on biosimilars that brought together experts from across the industry to map the future for such treatments in the EU and US.
Ichnos will launch with a portfolio of five clinical stage assets, a proprietary platform, as well as a biologics manufacturing facility and 350 employees.
Sanofi opens its Massachusetts, US-based facility that will use digital technology for continuous biologic production, with similar plants planned in Canada, Brazil, Ireland, France, and Belgium.
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.
Merck extends its partnership with 4D Pharma to discover and develop LBP vaccines for three undisclosed indications, adding to their Keytruda partnership.
The news most interesting to our readers were those featuring collaborations, whether in the production of an Ebola vaccine, biosimilars entering new markets or creating new manufacturing modalities.
Cellectis chooses Lonza to take on the clinical manufacturing of its UCART blood cancer immunotherapy candidates, intended to be marketed as industrialized, readily available CAR-T cells.
HSAC will acquire 100% of the shares of Immunovant, taking the biotech public with $100m in cash and a lead product that set to go through Phase II trials.
Shanghai Pharma and Biocad established a joint venture to commercialize the latter’s portfolio of biosimilars and biologic treatments for the Chinese market.
GSK’s biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility will be focused on the company’s pipeline of biologic medicines, including gene therapies, and vaccines.
‘Talk to your CDMO early’ is the advice BioConnection gives to developers of biopharmaceuticals, suggesting that they make a reservation to ensure availability.