Industry News

MGI and Imperial College will jointly operate a CEC designed to provide European customers with first-hand experience with various automation and sequencing instruments.

Gerresheimer and Nelson Labs will work together to conduct extractables and leachables testing on upcoming primary packaging solutions.

Under this deal, Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, will select Veeva products for industry-specific software and data.

Johnson & Johnson’s acquisition of Abiomed, a provider of heart pump technologies, is designed to bolster their position in the medical technology sector.

Steriline will be exhibiting its vial filling and capping machine (VFCM100) under double-wall isolator for aseptic filling at CPHI 2022 in Frankfurt, Germany, on Nov. 1–3, 2022.

The company is expanding its contract development and manufacturing services for parenteral drugs to global customers.

Purolite and Repligen have extended their existing ligand partnership through 2032.

FDA has accepted Ashland’s Viatel bioresorbable mPEG-PDLLA pharmaceutical excipient into the FDA Novel Excipient Review Pilot Program.

A possible change in leadership on Capitol Hill has aggravated fears of political push-back on FDA regulation and approval of contraceptives and other medications.

Roquette has launched excipients PEARLITOL CR-H and PEARLITOL 200 GT.

The CPHI Annual Report 2022 predicts cash reserves from venture capitalists and private equities will drive expansion in the demand for contract research organizations and contract development and research organizations.

AstraZeneca’s Imjudo (tremelimumab) was approved by FDA in combination with Imfinzi (durvalumab) for treating unresectable liver cancer.

An advisory committee’s vote to remove Makena from the market illustrates how difficult it is for regulators to ensure that such drugs document safety and effectiveness in a timely manner.

Cambrex has expanded its stability storage business, Q1 Scientific, in Ireland and Belgium.

AAPS will exclusively advise RX Global on scientific focus areas for Interphex 2023, which is set to take place at the Javits Center in New York City next spring.

The agency has recommended authorization of the Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine that targets the Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5.

The agency has recommended approval of Comirnaty and Spikevax for children from six months of age.

FDA amended its authorization for the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent booster vaccines to permit their use in children as young as five years old.

CRB’s Horizons: Life Sciences report covers challenges facing manufacturers and how to keep pace with rapid innovation.

CBER maps modernization plan to handle surge in research and applications.

The UK’s MHRA has approved Colonis’ melatonin oral solution for sleep onset insomnia in children and adolescents with ADHD.

H.I.G. Capital’s portfolio company Aspire Pharma has acquired Morningside Healthcare and Morningside Pharmaceuticals.

FDA has granted Fast Track designation for CUE-101, a treatment of recurrent/metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Pfizer has completed its acquisition of Biohaven Pharmaceuticals for approximately $11.6 billion.

PerkinElmer has unveiled a cell analysis solution to streamline cell and gene therapy research and manufacturing.

FDA is highlighting how the Patient-Focused Drug Development program has encouraged active involvement of many patient groups in bringing their perspectives into the process of developing, testing, and approving new medicines.

Biogen has agreed to pay $900 million to settle federal and state claims that it paid kickbacks to physicians to encourage them to prescribe its drugs.

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