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Under a new partnership, Invitae and Deerfield Management will harness genetic and clinical testing data from patients to discover potential novel therapeutics for treating rare diseases.

Sanofi intends to cut its US list price for Lantus (insulin glargine injection) by 78% and cap out-of-pocket costs at $35 for all patients with commercial insurance.

BioNTech will receive an exclusive worldwide license from OncoC4 to develop and commercialize its anti-CTLA-4 mAb candidate for solid tumor indications.

Sartorius BIA Separations and Teknova will collaborate to combine their technologies in an effort to streamline the downstream purification process.

Samsung Biologics plans to invest more than ₩1.9 trillion (US$1.5 billion) in the new Incheon, South Korea, facility, which will hold a manufacturing capacity of 180,000 L.

The collaboration between Genuv and Celltrion will utilize Genuv's proprietary mouse platform for antibody discovery.

Pfizer will acquire all outstanding shares of Seagen for a total of $43 billion.

Sumitovant Bipharma has completed its acquisition of Myovant Sciences for approximately $1.7 billion.

Lilly will cap insulin prices for patients with and without insurance at $35 per month.

AstraZeneca has entered into a global exclusive license agreement with KYM Biosciences for CMG901, which is being investigated as a gastric cancer treatment.

That wave beginning to crash over PhRMA’s gunwales may well emanate from a startup mindset, rather than Big Pharma or government policy pundits.

Moderna will leverage Life Edit’s suite of gene editing technologies to advance development of in vivo gene editing therapies.

AbbVie and Capsida have expanded their existing collaboration to advance three new gene therapy programs.

The goal of this collaboration is to develop an approach to personalized radiotherapy and drug discovery that is based in genomics and artificial intelligence.

LIfT and Minaris will work together to develop a manufacturing process for LIfT’s allogeneic neutrophil progenitor cell therapy.

Naoki Okamura, Astellas’ current chief strategy officer, will take over the role from Kenji Yasukawa.

Thermo Fisher’s sponsorship of Momentum Labs is intended to support biotech businesses in the greater Gainesville region.

A slew of late-stage clinical trials is expected to push new regenerative medicines onto the market in the next few years.

The restraint to not target solely the major disease groups has provided good proportion and balance for our industry.

The COVID-19 pandemic helped to showcase RNA molecules and their therapeutic potential. There were also lessons learned in terms of drug delivery, manufacturing, logistics, and storage.

Big data is a natural for pharmaceutical industry players that have not already embraced it.

Pharmapack Europe experts expect smaller and medium European packaging companies to grow or be acquired.

Scientific Laboratory Supplies’ acquisition of C&M will bolster the company’s scientific calibration, maintenance, and validation offerings.

deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, will whole-genome sequence 35,000 African-American samples provided by Illumina and Nashville Biosciences.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a Notice of Allowance for Zika vaccine patent to GeoVax.