Manufacturing

MilliporeSigma and Lotte Group will collaborate on facility design and workforce training for a new biologics business unit in the US.

Under the collaboration, Avantor and GeminiBio will offer custom cGMP solutions to enhance process efficiency and accelerate speed-to-market of novel emerging therapy modalities.

MilliporeSigma’s new BioContinuum Seed Train Platform offering enables a fully closed bioprocessing environment for both fed-batch and perfusion N-production.

ImmunoGen has formed a research collaboration with Oxford BioTherapeutics to develop novel antibody-drug conjugates for cancers with high unmet needs.

The Sanofi-GSK vaccine is the first candidate to demonstrate efficacy in a placebo-controlled trial with a high-Omicron environment.

Batavia Biosciences is expanding its headquarters and R&D capabilities in its Netherlands facility.

SCHOTT is planning to triple its ready-to-use vial production capacity in the United States to meet increasing demand for storing injectable drugs.

Merck has entered into a collaboration with Agilent Technologies with the aim of filling the industry gap in PAT for downstream processing.

Exothera, LogicBioTherapeutics, and Polyplus-transfection, are collaborating on the development of a scalable AAV manufacturing platform.

Yourway intends to construct a new manufacturing facility in the Dublin Airport Logistics Park.

REGENXBIO has opened a new in-house facility at its headquarters in Rockville, Md., that will be used to manufacture AAV gene therapies at commercial scale.

Astellas Pharma has opened its new gene therapy manufacturing facility in Sanford, NC, which will support clinical- and commercial-scale manufacturing of AAV vectors for gene therapies.

The expansion at Seqirus’ Holly Springs, N.C., manufacturing facility will support the formulation and fill/finish of influenza vaccines.

Eli Lilly and Company plans to build two new manufacturing sites at Indiana's LEAP Lebanon Innovation and Research District in Boone County.

Pfizer will invest $120 million to produce COVID-19 oral treatment in the US.

One can use modeling methods to generate data and shorten development timelines in preclinical studies.

Advances in genomics tools can lead to quicker biotherapeutic development.

Demand spurs innovations in syringes and syringe fill/finish operations.

Precompetitive consortiums seek solutions to industry-wide challenges.

The KTEvolution from Tower Cold Chain is a lightweight, reusable container designed for the transport of pharmaceutical products.

Thermo Fisher's Invitrogen TrueCut HiFi Cas9 Protein significantly reduces off-target events while retaining maximum on-target editing efficiency.

AI could provide solutions to critical manufacturing inefficiencies.

Lonza and Israel Biotech Fund form a two-year agreement to support accelerated development and manufacture of biologics and small molecules.

AGC Biologics is investing in viral vector suspension technology at its new Longmont, Colo., facility.

Lubrizol has launched Apisolex technology to improve solubility and simplify the manufacturing of parenteral drug products.

AstraZeneca's recombinant COVID-19 vaccine, originally invented by the University of Oxford, has been approved as a third dose booster vaccine in the EU.

The agency is asking drug manufacturers to ensure a strong supply chain by developing risk management plans.

Catalent has announced a $175 million project to expand its manufacturing facility for large scale oral dose forms at its Winchester, Ky, site.

CDMOs need to consistently demonstrate agility as demand increases for newly developed therapeutic modalities.

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