Deals, Development and Manufacturing

Novartis plans to acquire Endocyte, a biopharmaceutical company, to accelerate the development of innovative radioligand technology for treating cancer.

The company will collaborate with GlycoBac to offer an insect cell line for the development of viral vaccines and gene therapies.

Roche has acquired Tusk Therapeutics in a deal worth up to EUR 659 million (US$762 million).

The companies will develop and commercialize ARO-HBV, a Phase I/II subcutaneous, ribonucleic acid interference therapy candidate being investigated for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B viral infection.

The companies signed a three-year clinical manufacturing agreement to manufacture GlaxoSmithKline’s specific peptide enhanced affinity receptor T-cell receptor therapy for United States, Canadian, and European clinical trials.

The companies will work together to discover, develop, and commercialize immunotherapies for patients with solid-tumor cancers in a collaboration worth $695 million per program.

The companies partnered to build a 500-L single-use pilot-scale plant for biologics production.

The companies collaborated to launch a new cell-based profiling service for biochemical assay.

While food, shelter, and clothing are the primal essentials for life, hope-as embodied by modern medicine-has now become part of that human expectation.

GE Healthcare, Cobra Biologics, and the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) have entered into a collaboration to advance manufacturing of adeno-associated virus vectors for gene therapy.

The biopharmaceutical company will invest approximately $800 million to expand facilities and manufacturing capacity at its campus in Rensselaer County, NY.

PCI Pharma Services and CSP Technologies will partner on protective packaging solutions for clinical trials and stability testing.

The collaboration will focus on developing manufacturing solutions for biosimilars.

The collaboration will explore the potential of Dyadic’s gene-expression platform to produce multiple biologic vaccines and drugs.

Novartis will sell selected portions of its Sandoz United States portfolio to Aurobindo Pharma USA for $900 million in cash, plus $100 million in potential earn-outs.

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and vaccine manufacturer IDT Biologika will collaborate to develop and manufacture a vaccine against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

The companies entered a multi-year R&D collaboration to develop mRNA-based flu vaccines.

Avalon and Weill will co-develop bio-production and standardization procedures for CAR-T therapy.

The companies will collaborate on the discovery, development, and commercialization of cell therapies for cancer.

Boehringer Ingelheim joins Oxford BioMedica, UK Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy Consortium, and Imperial Innovations to form a partnership for developing a new gene therapy to treat cystic fibrosis.

The companies will collaborate to bring InnoCore Pharmaceuticals’ proprietary SynBiosys biodegradable polymer platform to market.

Stem-cell developer TiGenix has been acquired by Takeda Pharmaceutical for approximately EUR 520 million (US$604 million).

GlaxoSmithKline and 23andMe, a personal genomics and biotechnology company, will partner to research and develop new drugs using human genetics.

The companies will work together to develop novel gamma delta T-cell receptor therapies in various cancers.

CELLforCURE will produce cancer CAR-T treatments for Novartis at a manufacturing facility in Les Ulis (Essonne), France.