Biopharma News

Caribou announced the completion of a $30-million Series B financing round, which included the participation of new and current investors.

The Phase I trials will examine AX-1602’s clinical efficacy for the treatment of psoriasis and eczema.

Takeda received a $38 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop, license, and supply Sabin-strain inactivated poliovirus to more than 70 developing countries.

Under the terms of an agreement with Pfizer, WAVE will advance up to five programs from discovery through the selection of clinical candidates.

MilliporeSigma expands its Carlsbad, California-based GMP capacity for viral and gene-therapy products by nearly 90%.

The collaborations have the goal of creating new tools that will help predict how people with Type 2 diabetes adhere to their medication.

MilliporeSigma, the North American life-sciences business of Germany’s Merck KGaA, added a 2000-L single-use bioreactor to its facility in Massachusetts.

EMD Serono, the North American biopharmaceutical business of Germany’s Merck KGaA, will expand its R&D facility in Massachusetts, US.

MSD joined the WHO campaign in Africa, which is focused on staying polio free.

The Subcommittee for Advanced Manufacturing of the National Science and Technology Council highlights biopharmaceutical manufacturing as an emerging priority.

Sanofi will invest in its Geel, Belgium facility in order to support its pipeline of monoclonal antibodies.

The facility located in Ware, UK, will be used to manufacture GSK’s Ellipta inhaler.

Shire announces plans to build a flexible biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility in County Meath, Ireland.

Linker technology and drug combinations play an important role in the efficacy of ADCs.

JW Biotechnology will focus on developing novel cell-based immunotherapies.

Sanofi says the program will vaccinate one million students from 6000 public schools in dengue-epidemic regions of the Philippines.

Inflectra is the second biosimilar to hit the market in the United States.

The companies announced that they have mutually decided to terminate the planned merger after the US Department of Treasury and the IRS issue temporary and proposed regulations on tax inversion.

Jack Lew, Obama’s secretary of the treasury, announced on April 4, 2016, that the US Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is issuing temporary and proposed regulations to limit the “benefits of and limit the number of corporate tax inversions.” The government bodies also plan to address earnings stripping in these inversions, so it will examine past inversion deals that have already been completed.

The company received a positive recommendation for it’s Remicade biosimilar, Flixabi (infliximab).

A team of Bristol-Myers Squibb scientists will work in a new laboratory at the National Institute of Bioprocessing Research and Training facility in Dublin, Ireland.

Novo Nordisk broke ground on a facility in Clayton, NC, to manufacture APIs for GLP-1 and insulin medicines.

The BARDA-supported monoclonal antibody was approved both as a treatment after anthrax exposure and as an anthrax prophylactic.

The Human Vaccines Project brings together academic research centers, industrial partners, nonprofit organizations, and governments to address the primary scientific barriers to developing new vaccines and immunotherapies.

The new class of mAbs differs from approved anti-PD 1 mAbs because they do not block the PD-1-PD-L1 interaction.

The studies, conducted across eight countries with nearly 600 inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients, further support claims by Celltrion that Remsima is highly similar its reference product.

Kovaltry is an unmodified, full-length recombinant factor VII product used to treat hemophilia A in adults and children.

Sir Andrew Witty, CEO of GlaxoSmithKline, has said that he plans to retire from the company in March 2017, after nearly ten 10 years in the position.