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Boehringer Ingelheim will pay Sino Biopharmaceutical $358 million upfront and near-term for options on six biologic oncology programs, deepening a partnership that began in 2024.

A former CIA officer, Pacific Research Institute economists, and industry groups say Treasury's proposed COINS Act biotechnology restrictions are too broad, while the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology backs the move. Comments are due December 7, 2026.

Shilpa CDMO's $50 million plan adds 10 kL of SPPS reactor capacity in Raichur, India, with its first commercial peptide line opening in December 2026.

Today’s BioPharm Brief covers FDA’s final potency assurance guidance for cell and gene therapies, Lonza’s deal to acquire Merck KGaA’s US CDMO business, and Phase 2a data for Tiziana’s intranasal anti-CD3 antibody foralumab in progressive multiple sclerosis.

At AAPS PharmSci 360 2026, University of Iowa PhD candidate Siddhanth Hejmady explains how adding a payload or radiolabel to trastuzumab changes its behavior in bulk solution and at interfaces, and why developability teams should pair DLS with QCM-D.

Final FDA guidance replaces 2011 potency testing advice, asking CGT makers to build potency assurance from IND filing through postmarket monitoring.

Teva will commercialize etanercept-ykro (Eticovo) and infliximab-abda, adding 2 TNF inhibitor biosimilars to US options for inflammatory diseases.

In the Phase 2a INFORM-MS trial, Tiziana’s nasal foralumab reduced microglial activation on PET imaging at 50 µg in non-active secondary progressive MS, while the 100-µg dose showed no significant effect.

The deal adds five US sites and about 1,100 employees, more than doubling Lonza’s US network and filling a gap in US bioconjugation capacity the company flagged weeks earlier.

AAPS PharmSci 360 2026 in New Orleans centered on auditable AI, modeling-guided formulation, oral peptide delivery, high-concentration antibody suspensions, and the push toward $10-per-gram monoclonal antibodies.

Samsung Biologics' pending PolyPeptide deal adds peptide API manufacturing, including GLP-1 supply, to its antibody and ADC CDMO services.

The deal gives Fresenius options on biosimilars spanning monoclonal and bispecific antibodies, ADCs, and fusion proteins, starting with polatuzumab vedotin and teprotumumab, and could expand its portfolio from 29 to 66 molecules.

FDA set a May 1, 2027 target date for AMT-130, a one-time gene therapy that silences the huntingtin gene, and plans an advisory committee meeting.