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A rolling review of data on the use of remdesivir, an investigational antiviral medicine, for the treatment of COVID-19 has been started by EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use.

Boehringer Ingelheim will use the partnership to reveal novel insights into the complexities of various inflammatory diseases, which opens the potential for a clearer understanding of potential candidate biomarkers.

AbbVie and Allergan have satisfied all required antitrust clearances for the acquisition.

The center will be located at NJIT’s Life Sciences and Engineering center and will feature two good manufacturing practices suites that are expected to be completed and operational during the summer of 2020.

The collaboration will add diversity to Alexion’s commercial portfolio and will give the company access to Portola’s commercialized medicine, Andexxa (coagulation factor Xa [recombinant], inactivated-zhzo).

Remote, machine health monitoring services reduce the need for on-site visits.

Catalent will manufacture a mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine for clinical trials and potential commercialization.

Trial begins in the US for the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine; manufacturing plans announced.

The extension of the company’s product offerings to include the anti-certolizumab pegol antibodies offers critical reagents for the development of assays for TNF alpha inhibitor biologics and their biosimilars.

Kindeva Drug Delivery plans capital investment and jobs growth.

Fujifilm allocates production volumes for COVID-19 treatments in 2021 at its Denmark facility.

Congressional leaders are developing the next version of the 21st Century Cures Act, including provisions to advance research related to the COVID-19 crisis as part of initiatives for bringing innovative therapies to market faster.

FDA’s EUA provides the first new treatment for COVID-19 patients with severe symptoms.

The ASTM standard describes how to evaluate single-use systems for foreign particle analysis.

The new cell-line producing platform enables fully scalable production of high-performance adeno-associated virus vectors.

The goal of the collaboration is to manufacture up to one billion does per year of mRNA-1273, Moderna’s vaccine against the novel coronavirus.

Manja Boerman tapped as president of Cell & Gene Therapy for Catalent with retirement of Pete Buzy.

Sartorius adds chromatography systems and resins, tangential flow filtration, and biomolecular characterization technologies.

Catalent and Johnson & Johnson announce joint investment and tech transfer to prepare for rapid scale-up and segregated cGMP commercial manufacturing capacity.

AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford have announced that they will collaborate on the global development and distribution of the university’s potential recombinant adenovirus vaccine aimed at preventing COVID-19 infection.

ILC Therapeutics, a biotech company based in the United Kingdom, has discovered two separate novel treatments for patients suffering with COVID-19 prior to needing ventilators.

Solentim and ATUM will bundle together the Leap-In Transposase platform with the VIPS single cell cloning instrument for cell line development.

MilliporeSigma’s Bio4C Software Suite combines process control, analytics, and plant-level automation.

The event will be rescheduled for April 20–22, 2021 at the Javits Center in New York City.

With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Batavia’s low-cost vaccine manufacturing process will be used to produce Wistar’s drug substance and drug product formulations, to be distributed to vaccine manufacturers.

The platform provides access to case studies, new technologies, expert insight, published and peer-reviewed articles, webinars, news updates, videos, and interviews.

A comprehensive turnkey system based on LabVantage’s laboratory information management system platform allows laboratories to implement COVID-19 biobanking, testing, and research.

The statement, published by the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities, outlined its commitment to a strengthening of global collaboration in the fight against COVID-19.