Deals, Development and Manufacturing

Roche has extended its offering period for the purchase of Spark to provide US and UK regulatory authorities with additional time to complete their review of the acquisition.

Vertex will use the acquisition to develop cell-based treatments for type 1 diabetes.

Valo Therapeutics has acquired a technology from Helsinki University that is expected to broaden its approach and expand the capability of its cancer vaccines platform, PeptiCRAd.

The joint venture, named BacThera, will operate out of headquarters in Basel, Switzerland and will serve pre-clinical to Phase II projects, with the ability to expand to Phase III and commercial manufacturing in the future.

The partnership will provide cost effective biologics for the world market.

A global agreement with Polpharma Biologics gives Sandoz commercialization rights to a proposed biosimilar natalizumab for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.

A collaboration between Insilico Biotechnology and IFAT aims to develop a manufacturing, planning, and control system for the production of monoclonal antibodies.

Alvotech and Prestige Biopharma, have announced the formation of a new contract manufacturing partnership for the commercial production of a biosimilar.

BioCity has revealed it will be investing in Kinomica, an early-stage precision medicine biotech company that was spun out of Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London.

LBB Specialties and Meggle Excipients & Technology will work to distribute excipient products to companies in the American pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries.

The transaction will reach completion during the fourth quarter of 2019.

The partners will collaborate to identify the bioactive components in hydrolysates, which have long been used as additives in cell culture media and feed formulation in the biopharma industry.

The new vaccine will offer protection against the Nipah virus after a single dose.

The transaction is part of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s proposed acquisition of Celgene.

Innovate UK has awarded a grant worth thousands to the Atelerix Consortium for the collaborative work with the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult and Rexgenero on development of cell stabilization technology.

ABPI has issued a statement of support in response to the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister’s recent order of urgent action to boost the numbers of children receiving vaccinations.

The divestiture is in line with Bayer’s strategy to focus on its life sciences business.

Pfizer is investing $500 million for the construction of a state-of-the-art gene therapy manufacturing facility in Sanford, NC.

The partnership aims to establish a virtual R&D center to advance the development of new cancer therapies.

The companies have entered into a manufacturing agreement for the production of Phase III clinical trial material.

The facility will support gene therapy production and continued development of PTC’s pipeline of investigational medicines.

The acquisition will boost Bayer’s cell-therapy development programs, with an initial focus on neurology, cardiology, and immunology.

Iontas and Teva Pharmaceuticals have entered into an agreement for the application of technologies and know-how into the optimization of human antibodies to be used as biotherapeutics.

Founding members of the Global Cybersecurity Alliance are Schneider Electric, Rockwell Automation, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Claroty, and Nozomi Networks.

Cytena Bioprocess Solutions, a new Cytena subsidiary in Taiwan, will provide bioprocess solutions for pharmaceutical companies and research institutes.