Partnerships

The Cambridge-GSK Translational Immunology Collaboration builds on an existing scientific relationship between the biopharma company and the university, with the aim of improving outcomes for patients.

Through the collaboration, Merck will use Mestag’s proprietary RAFT platform to investigate the pathogenic role that fibroblasts play in inflammatory diseases.

SK pharmteco will be the preferred manufacturing partner for AVG-101, AaviGen’s lead gene therapy product.

The next-generation IRO platform was found to significantly outperform the legacy Prodigy system, showing improvements in cell growth, CAR+ cell yield, and overall efficiency.

Vectura’s expertise in the field includes formulation and device development for dry powder inhalers and pressurized metered dose inhalers, among other products and services.

The collaboration builds on Novartis’ acquisition of Chinook Therapeutics just over a year ago.

Under the expanded agreement, Univercells and University of Pennsylvania will evaluate certain bioreactors for scalable gene therapy production.

Through a multi-year collaboration, Pfizer and Evotec aim to conduct early discovery research for therapeutics against metabolic and infectious diseases.

The companies have restructured their existing collaboration into a licensing agreement that invests in mRNA development.

A strategic partnership between LenioBio and Labscoop is aimed at making scalable cell-free protein synthesis technology more accessible across North America.

This collaboration aims to support and accelerate clinical development of advanced and novel technologies.

The company is referring to its search for innovative approaches as crowdsourcing and will award at least one cash prize.

The pairing of Abzena and Argonaut Manufacturing Services is the result of several years’ worth of collaborative work between the two companies.

Swiss CDMO CordenPharma and Spain-based Certest will collaborate on the development of ionizable lipids for LNP formulations.

CGT Catapult and CATTI have developed aligned training standards for the manufacture of advanced therapies.

Cellular Origins will apply its robotic platform to establish automated CGT manufacturing at CGT Catapult’s manufacturing innovation center in Stevenage, UK.

Under this partnership, AGC Biologics and BioConnection will provide development and manufacturing capabilities for biopharmaceutical drug substance and drug product.

The organizations plan to combine etherna’s experience in mRNA and lipid-based nanoparticles with UHasselt’s autoimmune research to treat a variety of auto-immune diseases.

One of the first planned areas of focus is the field of preterm birth-associated early onset respiratory disease.

Under a partnership, ProPharm and PBL have launched the Cell Factory Box, an enclosed and fully automated cell factory manufacturing device.

The collaboration will target solid tumors using Poseida’s allogeneic CAR-T platform to develop convertibleCAR programs.

The collaboration aims to scale-up TreeFrog’s process to produce and amplify cells for Vertex’s type 1 diabetes cell therapies.

In back-to-back deals, Charles River will offer plasmid DNA manufacturing services for a gene therapy under development by Axovia Therapeutics and for a lead candidate being developed by Ship of Theseus.

ProBioGen and Mapp Biopharmaceutical will use the former’s GlymaxX technology to develop a cell line for an afucosylated antibody that targets Marburg virus infection

Under a global license and collaboration agreement, AbbVie and OSE Immunotherapeutics will aim to develop OSE-230, a mAb for treating chronic inflammation.

Nona Biosciences and Boostimmune will collaborate to develop ADCs against novel targets using Nona’s proprietary platform technology.

AstraZeneca has completed its acquisition of Icosavax, gaining the IVX-A12 vaccine candidate that targets RSV and hMPV.

GSK is expanding its respiratory biologics portfolio with its acquisition of Aiolos Bio and its novel therapy, AIO-001.

Under the new partnership, Samsung Biologics will develop and manufacture an antibody for a LegoChem Biosciences ADC candidate.

Under a new alliance, KBI Biopharma and Argonaut Manufacturing Services will combine their strengths to offer end-to-end biopharma development and CGMP manufacturing solutions.