News & Analysis on the Clinical Development and Manufacture of Large Molecule Drugs
PDC*line Pharma, a clinical stage biotech company developing cancer vaccines, has completed its Series B2 round of financing, raising a total of €17.5m (US$20.3m) with Belgian and South-Korean investors.
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.
Trince, a spin-off of Ghent University (UGent) that is focused on advancing cell-based science and therapeutics by facilitating the delivery of molecules into cells, both in vitro and ex vivo, has raised €4m (US$4.5m) from investors.
The European Commission has extended the marketing authorisation for Actemra/RoActemra (tocilizumab) to include the treatment of severe COVID-19 in adults.
Medicago and GSK’s plant-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate has reported an overall efficacy rate of 71% in Phase 3 trials: with the final regulatory submission for the vaccine to be filed with Health Canada shortly.