BioBusiness

The $286 million investment ability is designed to elevate MillioporeSigma’s ability to conduct biosafety testing and analytical development services.

Biotech startup, Cradle, has raised $5.4 million in seed funding with an AI-enabled design platform that allows for the synthetic building of cell factories to produce proteins.

CellVax Therapeutics has selected Theragent, a new CDMO, to manufacture clinical trial material for a new Phase II prostate cancer immunotherapy drug candidate.

The deal will see Sanofi use Insilico’s AI drug discovery platform to advance up to six new drug development candidates.

Salipro Biotech has entered into a collaboration and license agreement with Sanofi to advance discovery programs.

The Start-Up Market at CPHI Barcelona brings together 27 start-ups, innovators, and small enterprises from across the pharma landscape.

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.

New medications show exciting outcomes for weight loss.

Lonza and Singzyme will use Singzyme’s enzymatic conjugation platform to develop novel bioconjugates.

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

Under two new agreements, Societal CDMO will offer analytical, technical transfer, formulation, manufacturing, and packaging services for novel therapeutics.

Gilead and MacroGenics will work together on bispecific antibodies for the treatment of blood cancers.

Merck has exercised a $250 million option with Moderna to jointly develop and commercialize cancer vaccine mRNA-4157/V940.

Alexion’s acquisition of LogicBio is designed to accelerate the company’s growth in genomic medicines.

Cytiva’s acquisition of CEVEC Pharmaceuticals strengthens the company’s cell line development and biomanufacturing capabilities.

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

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

Biopharma focuses on streamlining biomanufacturing and supply chain issues to drive uptake of cell and gene therapies.

Actylis combines Aceto and its 10 acquired specialists into a singular global brand.

CytoReason has announced an expanded collaboration deal with Pfizer to deliver AI for drug discovery and development.

Novo Nordisk and Microsoft are collaborating to accelerate drug discovery and development using big data and artificial intelligence.

Ensysce Biosciences and Quotient Sciences are partnering to develop and test Ensysce’s novel opioid designed to prevent abuse and overdose.

The growth of the biopharmaceuticals market is feeding back into economies and, in part, is driving the boom in life sciences and biotech ecosystems.

Emergence Therapeutics will work with Synaffix’s ADC technology platform to develop multiple ADCs against undisclosed targets.

A thorough understanding of both regulatory requirements and study challenges can help develop and validate the appropriate methods for a bioanalytical study program.

Salipro has been granted patents in the United States and China for its proprietary technology to enable the development of therapeutics against challenging drug targets.

Avance Clinical’s acquisition of C3 Research Associates expands its CRO services to North America.

Roche’s acquisition of Good Therapeutics grants them rights to the company's conditionally activated PD-1-regulated IL-2 program.