Partnerships

The challenge of achieving zero visible defects (i.e., particulates) in parenteral drugs will require a coordinated effort at all stages of the supply chain, particularly in the production and filling of primary containers.

Aging populations and increased access to healthcare translates into opportunities for biopharmaceutical companies. JLL’s 2015 Life Sciences Outlook report highlights global clusters worth watching.

Aging populations and increased access to healthcare translates into opportunities for biopharmaceutical companies. JLL’s 2015 Life Sciences Outlook report highlights global clusters worth watching.

The collaborative effort will be focused on fully humanized antibodies.

UPS joins the Global Health Supply Chain Technical Assistance program to help secure the drug supply chain.

When should CMOs and their pharma clients share the details of their partnerships with outside parties?

The partnership will help divert 840 tons of waste related to single-use products from landfills or incineration during the next year alone.

ARGX-110-based combination therapies have demonstrated potential in treatment-resistant cancers.

  The provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) dealing with patent exclusivity periods are diametrically opposed to the main goals originally outlined in the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 in the Patient Care Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Biosimilars Council wrote in an open letter to President Obama on July 27, 2015.

The collaboration will address the need for novel analytical approaches for the characterization of glycans.

This collaboration is said to be the first established between the Crick and a pharmaceutical company.

The partnership will focus on the development of CAR T-cell therapies and other programs related to T-cell technology.

IDT Biologika acquired Aeras' vaccine manufacturing facility, and the companies will work together on tuberculosis vaccine development.

The supplier will add Allied Laboratories and AR Brown to its list of global partners.

Baxter announces that it will partner with Mayo Clinic and Velocity Pharmaceutical to form Vitesse Biologics, a Baxalta-managed company focused on immunology, hematology, and oncology.

Visterra announces partnership with A*STAR to develop VIS513, a monoclonal antibody for the treatment of dengue fever.

MaxCyte announces a strategic partnership with Johns Hopkins University to develop CAR T-Cell therapies for cancer.

MedImmune will provide funds and access to monoclonal antibodies to seven postdoctoral associates for the creation of protein measurement and characterization tools.

The companies partnered to create more effective biopharmaceuticals through the exploitation of PASylation.

Pfenex announced that it entered into an agreement to partner with Hospira on the development and commercialization of PF582, a biosimilar candidate to Lucentis.

Mylan announced a partnership with Theravance Biopharma to develop and commercialize TD-4208, a novel investigational COPD treatment.

Under terms of the agreement, Zymeworks could earn up to $164 million per successful drug candidate.

Catalent announced that it would partner with Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, and its subsidiary MGC Pharma, to promote GPEx technology, a high-titer vector for stable mammalian cell lines.

Boehringer Ingelheim announced that it would partner with Vanderbilt University to research and develop Ras inhibitors for the treatment of cancers affected by Ras mutation.

The new partnership between NeoStem and Invetech focuses on the development of a closed processing system for cell-based therapy manufacturing.

Single-use components aid efficiency in automated personalized therapy manufacturing.

Xencor's technology focuses on the use of antibody and protein biotherapeutics to treat immune-related diseases.

The announcement calls attention to another partnership in the growing T-cell receptor engineering space.

GE Healthcare and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company announced an alliance to develop therapeutic drugs in the field of hepatic fibrosis to treat various liver diseases.

New research will focus on a superfamily of protein receptors linked to various diseases.