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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.

Recently, 2seventy bio announced the initiation of a strategic partnership with JW Therapeutics aiming at the collaboration being the development of 2seventy bio’s MAGE-A4 cell therapy in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao.

Pfizer and Gero have partnered to discover potential therapeutic targets for fibrotic diseases using machine learning technology.

The collaboration between AbbVie and Anima Biotech will combine Anima's mRNA Lightning technology platform with AbbVie's extensive expertise in oncology and immunology.

The definitive agreement will give AstraZeneca global rights to CinCor’s portfolio of cardiorenal disease treatments.

Ipsen’s $952 million acquisition of Albireo is designed to bolster the company's rare disease portfolio.

Sartorius and RoosterBio will work together to address purification challenges and establish scalable downstream manufacturing processes for exosome-based therapies.

Messenger RNA is inherently unstable and thus requires unique solutions to protect its cohesion.

Astrea Bioseparations has acquired Delta Precision, a manufacturer of chromatography columns for biomanufacturing.

Avantor and Catalent have entered into a multi-year supply and services agreement.

Agilent’s acquisition of Avida grants them access to high-performance enrichment workflows that enable NGS approaches for studying cancer.

Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, will pay Kelun-Biotech up to $9l3 billion for seven early-stage oncology treatments.

Cautiously setting aside pandemic practices, pharma workers appear ready for flux, change, evolution, and expanding molecular diversity.

Coverage of COVID-19 vaccines was surprisingly displaced by this year’s astounding oncology and iconoclastic gene therapy “cures.”

Cell and gene therapies is unequivocally viewed as the biggest opportunity in the bio/pharma space.

GSK and Wave Life Sciences have entered into a collaboration to drive drug discovery and development for novel genetic targets.