Partnerships

AbbVie and immunotherapy company Tizona Therapeutics will join forces to develop and commercialize CD39-targeted therapeutics to treat cancer.

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

Agilent and other partners are funding development of Tapestri, a single-cell sequencing platform designed to help predict cancer relapse in individual patients and show the efficacy of gene-editing experiments.

The companies aim to advance research into inflammatory bowel disease.

The UK's government has revealed the details of the second Life Sciences sector deal, forming part of the Industrial Strategy.

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

The University of South Australia is working to develop needle-free vaccines for Zika, chikingunya, and peanut allergy in a collaboration with Australian biotechnology company Sementis and Enesi Pharma, a United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical company.

Under the new long-term agreement, Sartorius Stedim Biotech will continue to offer Lonza media and buffer products under non-exclusive terms.

The companies will develop AMG 714, a novel anti-IL-15 monoclonal antibody, for the treatment of gluten-free diet non-responsive celiac disease in a collaboration worth $170 million.

Improving the manufacturing of gene therapy vectors will be crucial to making advanced treatments accessible to more patients who need them, agreed panelists at the 2018 Galien Forum.

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies and the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) are collaborating to complete the technology transfer of the expression and purification of model monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) as part of AMECRYS, a research project funded by the European Commission.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has entered into a collaboration with Symphogen to deliver validated, platform workflows for simplified characterisation and quality monitoring of complex therapeutic proteins.

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

The companies announced the European launch of Imraldi (adalimumab), a biosimilar referencing AbbVie’s blockbuster Humira (adalimumab).

AbbVie will assume full development and commercial responsibility for its collaboration with Galapagos to discover and develop new therapies to treat cystic fibrosis (CF).

AstraZeneca and Innate Pharma further expand oncology collaboration with a new multi-term agreement.

The companies will work together to advance a number of Morphic's oral integrin therapeutics for fibrosis-related indications in a deal with $100 million.

The companies will work together to develop Ionis-FB-LRx for the treatment of complement-mediated diseases, including Geographic Atrophy (GA), the advanced stage of dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), in a deal worth $760 million.

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

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 UCL-Pall Biotech Centre of Excellence will address industry challenges and provide workforce training.

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.

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.

Research by Thermo Fisher Scientific and LumaCyte suggests that LumaCyte's Radiance instrument offers the ability to rapidly analyze viral vaccines to speed development and production and ensure their effectiveness.

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

The companies will develop therapies targeting the in-vivo elimination of hepatitis B virus (HBV) with Precision’s proprietary genome editing platform.

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.