Clinical Trial Materials

Catalent has completed the expansion of its clinical supply facility located in Shanghai, China.

The agreement will see Immutep and Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany jointly fund the INSIGHT-005 study.

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

The clinical trial research environment has evolved because of specific solutions designed to overcome uncertainty.

Finding specific solutions to overcome uncertainty has led to the evolution of a new clinical trial research environment.

A new initiative aims to speed the approval of and access to new drugs for young patients around the world, while limiting the number of children needed for testing in clinical trials.

Otsuka Pharmaceutical and Osaka University have entered an exclusive license agreement on a new anti-tumor antibody.

Democrats have proposed a measure to facilitate access to less costly comparator drugs needed in clinical trials, while another bill aims to increase transparency in the costs of clinical trials.

Huma has acquired AstraZeneca’s digital health platform, and AstraZeneca has become a shareholder of Huma in a partnership to accelerate digital-first patient care.

Capacity concerns and regulatory compliance considerations will drive the decision about outsourcing the manufacture of clinical trial materials.

FDA officials and their scientific advisors have come down hard on clinical development programs that rely on study results from a single foreign country, instead of from multi-regional trials following harmonized R&D standards.

Recipharm will build up its biologics service offering with the acquisition of GenIbet.

Pfizer invested $68.5 million in a facility in Durham, NC.

The authors review some of the monoclonal antibody candidates that reached Phase III clinical trials but were discontinued at later stages.

Lonza plans to establish drug product manufacturing capabilities at is site in Guangzhou, China, to produce clinical trial and commercial supply in the country.

Selexis and KBI Biopharma will use integrated services to advance Immatics’ TCR bispecifics drug development program to the IND stage.

The guidance provides recommendations for including premenopausal women in breast cancer clinical trials.

Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline reported that their adjuvanted recombinant COVID-19 vaccine candidate demonstrated strong immune responses across all adult age groups in a Phase II trial.

Best practices can help ensure supply chain flexibility and viability for biologic drugs in clinical trials.

Sterling Pharma Solutions and OncoTEX have entered into a clinical development agreement for the manufacturing of OncoTex’s novel platinum-resistant oncology drug candidate, OxaliTEX, for use in clinical trials.

Sandoz will soon begin enrolling patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration in a Phase III study with its proposed biosimilar to aflibercept.

Packaging materials, kit design, and cold-chain handling should be optimized for each study.

A task force details its findings of the risks associated with using convalescent plasma using failure mode and effects analysis

Best practices can help ensure supply chain flexibility and viability for biologic drugs in clinical trials.

After a hectic 2020, biopharma looks to deliver on COVID-19 vaccines and move other promising therapies forward.