Funding and Investments

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 company plans to lay off approximately 400 employees to support the restructuring of its R&D organization.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recently rejected National Health Service’s funding of Kymriah for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) despite recognizing that the drug has significant clinical benefits.

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

The drug particle engineering and nanotechnology company offers a nanotechnology platform that can revive failed drugs in the pharma pipeline.

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

The National Science Foundation grant will be used to commercialize a synthetic biology platform for cancer drug development.

Biogen will pay Samsung BioLogics approximately $700 million to increase its stake in Samsung Bioepis to approximately 49.9%.

The pharma major intends to spinoff Alcon as a stand-alone eye-care devices company.

The company has completed the first phase of expansion at its headquarters in Freiburg, Germany, in anticipation of increasing demand as cell and gene therapies approach commercialization.

The three-year collaboration will focus on developing vaccines for up to five infectious disease pathogens.

A new report released at the BIO International Convention shows that the US bioscience industry has had a $2-trillion economic impact and has accelerated venture capital investment and job growth.

Ingenza, in partnership with the University of Dundee and Drochaid Research Services, will work on a project to recycle CO2 emissions from bioprocessing plants to serve as feedstock and energy inputs.

The gene therapy company is expected to invest $55 million in a new manufacturing facility that will produce therapies for rare neurological genetic diseases.

Internationalization and regulatory reform are driving growth and investment China.

The company is increasing its cell culture media production capacity at its facilities in Pasching, Austria, and Logan, Utah.

LNC Therapeutics has appointed a new CEO and is strengthening its R&D for gut microbiome-based drugs.

The new facility, to be built in Toronto, Canada, will significantly increase capacity for pediatric and booster vaccines.

The company aims to add the additional analytical services in the European Union throughout 2018.

The companies have been awarded a collaborative grant of £1.9 million (US$2.6 million) from Innovate UK.

Amgen plans to invest approximately $300 million in a new biomanufacturing plant in the United States.

Single-use technologies are starting to gain ground as capacity needs change, but industrywide adoption remains low.

The company will use funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a new production method for artemisinin, a therapeutic used to treat malaria.

A Takeda and Denali collaboration includes three named programs for treating Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, using Denali’s antibody transport vehicle (ATV) technology to enhance blood-brain barrier penetration.

Athenex is moving forward with the construction of a new 320,000-square-foot pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Dunkirk, NY, and has hired the German engineering firm, M+W, to design and construct the facility.

The companies aim to discover and develop locked nucleic acid oligonucleotides as orally available therapies for treating inflammatory bowel diseases.

BioPharm International will mark 30 years of biopharma industry progress and challenges in 2018.

Gene therapies highlight FDA new drug approvals in 2017.

Recent investments show expansion activity in cell culture facilities.