Funding and Investments

The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) revealed 22 new projects and funding aimed to advance US biopharmaceutical manufacturing.

Pricing pressures, investment volatility, and government disfunction greet Biopharma in 2019.

Bio/pharma companies are successfully launching novel therapies; however, the industry still needs to work on manufacturing innovation.

The company will use GE Healthcare’s off-the-shelf KUBio biologics factory, which is expected to start operations in 2020, to provide development and manufacturing for early- to late-clinical and early-commercial manufacturing stages.

The investment builds on a collaboration the companies entered into in 2007 for various biomanufacturing projects.

The partnership, co-funded by Enterprise Ireland, will develop technologies for monitoring the quality of biopharma processes.

Cobra, Pall, and Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult are collaborating to develop continuous manufacturing for gene therapy production.

The new center will integrate biologics drug discovery, development, clinical manufacturing, and commercial manufacturing.

The vaccine producer announced an expansion to its Holly Springs, NC, manufacturing facility where it will increase production of its cell-based quadrivalent influenza vaccine.

The new collaborative center aims to serve as a hub for innovations in drug development and manufacturing.

While recognizing the unsung work of scientists in corporate research and development, the Galien Awards remind the industry of its priorities: patients and future patients within the global community.

The expansion adds new capabilities and enhances existing service offerings for both oral and parenteral dosage forms.

The acquisition will allow Lonza to further develop technology for scalable autologous cell-therapy manufacturing.

The company added a new EUR 63-million (US$72-million) packaging center at its manufacturing site in Darmstadt, Germany.

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.