Deals, Development and Manufacturing

With the investment, AstraZeneca will establish a second global strategic R&D center in Beijing as well as support major research and manufacturing agreements to further advance life sciences in the country.

EsoBiotec’s proprietary lentiviral platform primarily enables the immune system to attack cancers but could ultimately offer patients cell therapy treatments delivered in minutes rather than several weeks.

Under the agreement, Shilpa will undertake development and commercial supply for a novel checkpoint inhibitor for immuno-oncology indications.

Under this early stage R&D collaboration, the companies aim to engineer recombinant biologics for blocking Fc receptors, which play a key role in autoimmune diseases.

Treatment for cancer continues to drive immense innovation in the drug development pipeline, with advanced cell therapies, vaccines, and ADCs taking center stage.

Under this collaboration, GSK and Oxford will combine their complementary expertise in the immune system, vaccines, and cancer biology.

Under the partnership, the companies will combine fully automated and digitalized technologies aimed at reducing CGT manufacturing timelines to 2.5 days.

The collaboration will combine Cytiva’s CGT manufacturing technologies with Cellular Origins' robotic manufacturing platform.

The manufacturing agreement is expected to run through December 2030, subject to change, with production to take place at Samsung Biologics’ Songdo, South Korea, site.

Lonza will develop spray-dried formulations for an intranasally delivered biologic using a reformulated biologic drug candidate for obesity in Iconovo’s pipeline.

Under a global alliance with the Australian non-profit GC4K and Weill Cornell Medicine, PackGene aims to deliver a custom-tailored gene therapy solution for hereditary spastic paraplegia type 56, an exceptionally rare neurological disease.

The companies will advance the development of Innovent’s ADC candidate, IBI3009, which has received IND approvals in the US, China, and Australia.

Using Orexo’s powder-based drug delivery technology, the companies will develop mucosal vaccines in an inhaled formulation.

In the latest of a series of acquisitions this year, AbbVie will acquire Nimble Therapeutics, which includes that company’s lead asset, an oral peptide for treating psoriasis.

AbbVie has completed its $1.4 billion acquisition of Aliada Therapeutics, giving it access to Aliada’s disease-modifying therapy for Alzheimer’s disease.

The companies will develop a platform that can enable rapid development of DPI products.

Under the deals, the parties will advance therapeutics for fibrotic diseases, osteoarthritis, and Alzheimer’s disease.

The European Commission’s approval of the Catalent acquisition by Novo Holdings includes the related acquisition of three manufacturing sites by Novo Nordisk, which is also acquiring the Czech Republic manufacturing site of Novavax for $200 million.

Under the deal, Novartis will in-license PTC518, an mRNA splice modulator for the huntingtin gene, which has the potential to be the first oral disease-modifying therapy for Huntington's disease.

Cambrex will provide Lilly’s biotech collaborators with accelerated access to clinical development capabilities.

Under the collaboration, the companies will create and test circVec DNA–LNP formulations with an eye toward potential therapeutic applications.

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.

Under an agreement, Leads Biolabs has granted the new company, Oblenio Bio, an exclusive option to license LBL-051, a tri-specific T-cell engager antibody.

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 collaboration aims to develop precision genetic medicines using ViaNautis’ proprietary polyNaut technology platform.

The companies expect to accelerate the clinical development of MRT-6160, a Phase I drug candidate, as well as explore further therapeutic opportunities across multiple indications.

Through the collaboration, Merck will use Mestag’s proprietary RAFT platform to investigate the pathogenic role that fibroblasts play in inflammatory diseases.

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.

With the completion of its acquisition of Morphic, Lilly expands its immunology pipeline to include Morphic's oral integrin therapies to address inflammatory bowel disease.