
The proposed $700 million, 700,000-square-foot space will support the companies’ future joint portfolio of next-generation obesity medicines.
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The proposed $700 million, 700,000-square-foot space will support the companies’ future joint portfolio of next-generation obesity medicines.

The company has had abstracts accepted for three oral presentations and five posters.

While a one-stop shop still has its advantages, sponsor companies and CDMOs are starting to see each other not as transactional relationships, but true partners with a common goal of getting drugs to patients faster.

The White House is instructing FDA to increase fees for and inspections of foreign drug manufacturing plants and reduce the time required to approve such sites that will be newly constructed in the US.

The company hopes that its proprietary circVec technology platform will become a gold standard for nucleic acid and viral therapeutics.

The pandemic made it daunting for companies to retain talent and then find it anew, but just as that cloud is lifting and workforce diversity is being embraced, AI beckons as a new challenge.

The company’s intent is to establish Merck Wilmington Biotech as the future United States home for producing Keytruda for US patients.

Among the new data the company plans to show in its presentations is the successful, repeated dosing of an mRNA-LNP in monkeys.

The company’s exhibitions will be focused in the areas of its pipeline, proprietary capsid engineering, and manufacturing.

The indication is specific to patients who have received at least three prior therapies, including a proteasome inhibitor, immunomodulatory agent, and anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody, and have demonstrated disease progression on the last therapy.

Groundbreaking clinical studies and new research collaborations are pushing ahead even as uncertainty lingers about the geopolitical climate’s impact on development.

Transfer RNA is being investigated as a treatment for as many as 400 rare and ultra-rare diseases affecting the liver.

If approved, zanidatamab would be the first HER2-targeted therapy licensed for biliary tract cancer in the EU.


The investment will be done over five years and will include new, state-of-the-art R&D facilities as well as new or expanded manufacturing sites in multiple US states.

Paige’s state-of-the-art foundation models will be integrated with Sonrai’s intuitive cloud-based data analysis and bioinformatics platform.

Belantamab mafodotin is approved in combination with bortezomib plus dexamethasone in patients who have had at least one prior therapy, and in combination with pomalidomide plus dexamethasone for those who have had a prior therapy including lenalidomide.

The 6000-square-foot facility will provide cell therapy developers the support they need to transition to CGMP manufacturing, and an expanded footprint of the new center is expected to open in Philadelphia later in 2025.

The recombinant vaccine, under the brand name Vimkunya, is recommended for persons age 12 and older who are traveling to a country or territory where there is a chikungunya outbreak.

Artificial intelligence will be a major component, FDA said, of the approaches the agency will be deploying to either reduce, refine, or potentially replace animal testing.

Even with, or perhaps because of, the rapidity with which changes in United States policy are developing, many in the bio/pharmaceutical industry are taking a longer view.

As single use becomes more prevalent, end users are looking for more customization, and regulators are refining their rules, says Todd Andrews of CPC in an interview with Pharmaceutical Technology® Group.

Sitting down with the PharmTech Group at INTERPHEX 2025, Michael Franco, global sales director at PSG Biotech, discussed the recent advancements in pharmaceutical flow sensor technology.

Nicole Hunter, head of Global WMArchitect at WMFTS, sat with the PharmTech Group at INTERPHEX 2025 to discuss the industry initiative around single-use assembly components that was prompted by the supply disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

At INTERPHEX 2025, the PharmTech Group spoke with Dave Loula, global product director, ITT Engineered Valves, about innovation in advanced sensing technologies that answer customers' need for reliable valve function.

More and more contract manufacturers have been looking not at what the state of the supply chain is right now, but what it may be in the next three to five years.

Christopher Murphy, director of Global Business Development and Service Customer Support at Environmental Specialties, sat down with the PharmTech Group at INTERPHEX 2025 to discuss the design and critical role of walk-in chambers in the bio/pharmaceutical industry.

Speaking at INTERPHEX 2025, William Wainwright, business development manager at Iwata Label USA, discusses the practical benefits of functional labels in protecting parenteral drugs.

The company said the Stratyx 250 is the first bioreactor of its kind to offer biotech companies a combination of automation, remote process control, and flexibility.

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