Supplier News

With financing led by OrbiMed, Novo Holdings, and Jeito Capital, Alentis Therapeutics will develop a pipeline of Claudin-1-targeted ADCs to treat solid tumors.

Empowered by a $1.5 billion commitment from a major investor, Frontier Scientific Solutions has unveiled its plans for establishing a global free trade zone gateway intended for facilitating the life sciences supply chain using Wilmington International Airport in North Carolina.

Avantor has launched its new, expanded Innovation Center in Bridgewater, NJ, with integrated workflows under one roof and purpose-built collaboration spaces.

Avantor executives discuss the future of the biopharmaceutical industry and the impact that a wave of next-generation biotherapeutics will bring.

Ginkgo Bioworks has achieved the first milestone in an ongoing partnership with Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, aimed at improving biologics production.

TrakCel's OCELLOS, an IT platform, has been selected to orchestrate the administration of five out of seven autologous or matched allogenic cell therapy products approved or expected to be approved in 2024.

Lonza’s Synnafix has licensed its ADC technology to BigHat Biosciences, which will combine it with its ML design platform to generate newly designed ADCs.

The expanded offices in Griesheim, Germany, feature a demonstration and training area.

The company is investing $76 million to increase ADC manufacturing capacity at its St. Louis, Mo. facility.

The establishment of this new center aims to expedite R&D processes, reduce costs, and potentially lead to accelerated discovery of new candidate therapies.

Evonik's plant-based squalene, PhytoSquene, used in parenteral drug delivery applications, won the CPHI Excellence in Pharma Award in the “Sustainability” category.

Thermo Fisher Scientific's launch of its Accelerator Drug Development follows expansions of sites in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Bend, Ore., earlier in 2024 to enable R&D, manufacturing, and testing.

The annual survey predicts that four of the five biggest biologics capacity holders in 2028 will comprise CMOs, which will control 45% of all CMO capacity in Asia.

Cellevate's nanofiber microcarriers are the first on the market for use in manufacturing viral vectors used in gene therapy production, according to the company.

SGD Pharma plans to showcase its siliconized molded glass vials at CPHI Milan as part of its range of sustainable products and services.

The two companies are partnering to provide logistics and manufacturing services to biotechnology and pharma companies.

Under the long-term supply agreement, Lonza will manufacture CASGEVY (exagamglogene autotemcel) for Vertex at its facility in Geleen, the Netherlands, and plans to expand manufacturing to Portsmouth, NH, in the United States.

Ecolab's Hayley Crowe, executive vice-president and general manager Global Life Sciences sat down at BIO 2024 to discuss technology innovations and how they have enhanced downstream bioprocessing.

Novo Nordisk will use Korro Bio’s OPERA platform to develop RNA editing candidates for two targets to treat cardiometabolic diseases.

The new Vivaflow SU tangential flow filtration cassette is designed to be more flexible and user-friendly and offers enhanced ultrafiltration and diafiltration efficiency.

Rentschler Biopharma now offers a new lentiviral vector manufacturing toolbox at its site in Stevenage, UK.

Christian Cobaugh, CEO and founder of Vernal Biosciences, considers the outsourcing landscape for mRNA production.

The International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities’ new Collaborative Hybrid Inspection Pilot program allows a CDMO to gain approval from multiple countries simultaneously, as opposed to separately phased inspections from different corners of the globe.

Under the license agreement, Andelyin Biosciences will expand its AAV Curator Platform by including MyoAAV plasmids developed by Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

With a $15 million fund-raising goal, US Specialty Formulations plans to invest in expanding its biopharma facility in Allentown, Pa.

BioIVT has launched new cleanroom manufacturing space using Germfree’s technology that boosts its cell and gene therapies development capabilities.

Freudenberg Medical now offers custom single-use assemblies to expand its offerings in silicone extrusion and molding for biopharma applications.

The HemoTemp II Blood Bag Temperature Indicator, which is an FDA-approved medical device, and the HemoTemp II Activator both were given the “Standards-Compliant” seal.

Scorpius Holdings expects to launch its first CGMP campaign for mammalian-based biomanufacturing in the 2024 third quarter.

Under the expanded agreement, Univercells and University of Pennsylvania will evaluate certain bioreactors for scalable gene therapy production.