BioPharm International Editors

A combination of eye imaging techniques and adaptive optics has revealed key details of choroideremia.

Actylis combines Aceto and its 10 acquired specialists into a singular global brand.

The collaboration will use Octagon’s functional target discovery approach and novel chemistry strategy in disease areas in which Novo Nordisk has specific expertise.

The dedicated solid-state research and development suite is designed to promote discovery of novel polymorph, salt, and cocrystal forms.

Pfizer is set to supply global fund up to 6 million treatment courses of its COVID-19 oral treatment, PAXLOVID, for low-and-middle-income countries.

EC has approved Roche’s Vabysmo, the first bispecific antibody for the eye, for two leading causes of vision loss.

Roquette’s acquisition of Crest Cellulose is designed to reinforce its presence in India and other countries in Asia.

The Public-Private Partnership for Rare Neurodegenerative Diseases will work to enhance understanding and develop treatments for rare neurodegenerative diseases.

FDA granted accelerated approval to Skysona (elivaldogene autotemcel), which is designed to slow the progression of neurologic dysfunction in adolescents with CALD.

Lonza has expanded its HPAPI multipurpose suite for payload-linker manufacturing.

Boehringer Ingelheim will use Virtuosi to train employees at three aseptic sites across its network.

CytoReason has announced an expanded collaboration deal with Pfizer to deliver AI for drug discovery and development.

Otsuka announced that the EC has approved Lupkynis as the first oral treatment for active lupus nephritis.

Civica is expanding in the greater Richmond-Petersburg region and investing $27.8 million in a new testing facility.

Novo Nordisk and Microsoft are collaborating to accelerate drug discovery and development using big data and artificial intelligence.

Ensysce Biosciences and Quotient Sciences are partnering to develop and test Ensysce’s novel opioid designed to prevent abuse and overdose.

EMA has recommended approval of Enjaymo for the treatment of hemolytic anemia in adult patients with cold agglutinin disease.

Emergence Therapeutics will work with Synaffix’s ADC technology platform to develop multiple ADCs against undisclosed targets.

MilliporeSigma’s €130 million (USD$132 million) investment is designed to increase manufacturing capacity of single-use assemblies.

WHO has awarded prequalification to GSK’s Mosquirix, an approved malaria vaccine.

Salipro has been granted patents in the United States and China for its proprietary technology to enable the development of therapeutics against challenging drug targets.

Charles River Laboratories and Cure AP-4 will collaborate on gene therapy manufacturing for AP-4 hereditary spastic paraplegia.

Avance Clinical’s acquisition of C3 Research Associates expands its CRO services to North America.

In partnership with the University of Pittsburgh, ElevateBio will open its next manufacturing center in the city.

Roche’s acquisition of Good Therapeutics grants them rights to the company's conditionally activated PD-1-regulated IL-2 program.

SIRIO is enhancing its strategy for small and medium nutrition brands as Lonza’s Sara Lesina joins as GM in Europe.

Lynparza has been approved in Great Britain as an adjuvant treatment for patients with germline BRCA-mutated HER2-negative high-risk early breast cancer.

Sanofi’s Xenpozyme (olipudase alfa-rpcp) is now the only approved treatment for acid sphingomyelinase deficiency.

Touchlight will expand Lonza’s end-to-end offering for mRNA manufacturing with an additional, differentiated source of DNA raw material.

Hovione has expanded its drug product offering with a new manufacturing line dedicated to continuous tableting.