Biopharma News

Flow Eighteeen38 is receiving a €5 million (US$5.58 million) investment from its parent company, FairJourney Biologics.

SCG Cell Therapy has signed a collaboration agreement with A*STAR’s BTI to advance the development of antibodies for infectious diseases and cancer treatments.

Novartis will pay Voyager up to $1.75 billion for access to Voyager’s novel Tracer AAV capsids for potential use with three CNS targets.

Novo Nordisk will expand its existing research collaboration in novel delivery technologies with MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

UCB has announced it will build a new innovative gene therapy facility in Belgium.

Amgen has announced the groundbreaking of its newest biomanufacturing facility in North Carolina.

Johnson & Johnson have announced a landmark agreement to enable the manufacturing and availability of its COVID-19 vaccine in Africa by an African company.

Moderna has announced that it has entered a Memorandum of Understanding with the government of the Republic of Kenya to establish its first mRNA manufacturing facility in Africa.

Researchers at McGill University have made advancements with a novel method for growing synthetic bone tissue.

A consortium of nine development partners will support Biovac's expansion of its existing vaccine manufacturing plant capacity, while Biovac itself aims to raise funds to boost increased vaccine manufacturing capacity across Africa.

Pfizer has received Breakthrough Therapy Designation from FDA for its RSV vaccine candidate for prevention of RSV illness in infants by active immunization of pregnant women.

Adagene has announced SAFEbody multi-target collaboration with Sanofi for novel masked immuno-oncology antibody candidates.

UCB has announced that it is extending its tender offer to acquire Zogenix.

EMA has recommended approval of Spikevax for children aged 6 to 11.

Johnson & Johnson has confirmed advancement of the nationwide opioid settlement agreement.

Pfizer and BioNTech receive positive opinion for COVID-19 vaccine booster in adolescents 12 through 17 years of age in the EU.

Medicago and GSK have announced that Health Canada has approved COVIFENZ, an adjuvanted plant-based COVID-19 vaccine.

Eli Lilly and Company are investing $700 million into a Boston-based facility for the newly announced Institute for Genetic Medicine.

Scottish Enterprise has awarded £20 million (US$27 million) to Valneva Scotland to advance vaccine development.

Alvea has begun preclinical testing of a scalable, shelf-stable DNA vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 variants.

Sanofi and GSK announce they are seeking regulatory authorization for COVID-19 vaccine.

Novavax announces the first doses of Nuvaxovid COVID-19 vaccine have begun shipping to European Union member states.

The European Medicines Regulatory Network has adopted a Common Standard for the electronic product information on medicines in the European Union.

The turnkey facilities will promote scalable vaccine production for an end-to-end manufacturing network for mRNA-based vaccines in Africa.

Health Canada authorizes Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for individuals 18 years of age and older.

The company has announced plans to establish a commercial presence in six European countries.

The commercialization and licensing deal will see Biogen commercialize Xbrane’s Xcimzane, a proposed biosimilar for CIMZIA (certolizumab pegol).

ONK will receive non-exclusive rights to Intellia’s proprietary ex-vivo CRISPR/Cas9 technology in the development of five allogeneic NK cell therapies.