Biopharma News

PhoreMost has entered into separate collaboration agreements with Polaris Quantum Biotech and NeoCura Bio-Medical Technology to discover and develop novel cancer therapeutics.

UCB and Zogenix have agreed to an acquisition deal totaling nearly $2 billion.

In their collaboration, Bristol Myers Squibb and Prellis Biologics aim to generate human antibody libraries for select targets to enable drug discovery.

Pfizer will pay Beam $300 million upfront to conduct research on three undisclosed base editing targets in the liver, muscle, and central nervous system.

The UK’s National Institute of Health and Care Excellence has recommended the use of Janssen’s Darzalex (daratumumab) in combination with Velcade (bortezomib), thalidomide and dexamethasone (DVTd) to treat adults with multiple myeloma.

Fosun Pharma and Insilico Medicine will collaborate on AI-driven drug discovery and development of product candidates targeting multiple disease targets.

The collaboration between Bristol Myers Squibb and Century Therapeutics will combine Century’s iPSC-derived allogeneic cell therapy platform with Bristol Myers Squibb’s expertise in cell therapy and oncology drug development.

The agreeement will add to Merck KGaA’s LNP and mRNA capabilities.

The agreement expands Pfizer’s access to LNP formulation technology for mRNA vaccines and therapeutics.

FDA granted Oncoloze’s OM-301 an orphan drug designation for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

FDA has cleared an IND from Poseida Therapeutics, allowing continued development of the company’s allogeneic CAR-T cell therapy candidate for treating multiple solid tumors.

Neurimmune will receive up to $760 million for NI006, an investigational human monoclonal antibody in development for the treatment of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy.

Moderna’s vaccine is weaker against the Omicron variant, but boosters can increase neutralizing antibody levels by as much as 83-fold.

Sanofi’s acquisition will grant access to Amunix's promising immuno-oncology pipeline.

Tezpire (tezepelumab-ckko) has been approved as an add-on maintenance treatment for severe asthma.

FDA approved American Regent’s Injectafer (ferric carboxymaltose injection) for the treatment of pediatric patients with iron deficiency anemia.

Pfizer invested $68.5 million in a facility in Durham, NC.

The European Medicines Agency has accepted Sanofi’s marketing authorization application for olipudase alfa, a potential new therapy for acid sphingomyelinase deficiency, a rare disease.

Pfizer’s $6.7 billion acquisition of Arena will give them access to a portfolio of immuno-inflammatory therapies.

GlaxoSmithKline, together with the University of Oxford, has launched the Oxford-GSK Institute under a new collaboration that aims to study complex diseases to accelerate the success of drug discovery and drug development efforts.

GlaxoSmithKline and Vir Biotechnology have received a conditional marketing authorization from MHRA for Xevudy (sotrovimab) in the treatment of COVID-19.

Leucid Bio will collaborate with Lonza to use Lonza’s Cocoon Platform for clinical and commercial manufacturing of CAR T cells for Leucid’s lead candidate.

Sanofi’s acquisition of Origimm Biotechnology will add to its pipeline of vaccine candidates for treating acne.

Pfizer found that two-dose recipients exhibited a more than 25-fold reduction in neutralization titers against Omicron relative to wild-type.

Doer Biologics will use Lonza’s XS technology in the production of its proprietary platform technology.

Roche’s Actemra/RoActemra (tocilizumab) is now approved in the EU for the treatment of adults with severe COVID-19 symptoms.

AstraZeneca struck a deal worth up to more than $3.5 billion with Ionis Pharmaceuticals for the rights to develop and commercialize their transthyretin (TTR) amyloidosis treatment.

Longeveron’s Lomacel-B received an Orphan Drug Designation for the treatment of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome.