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The app, CURE ID, is designed to allow the clinical community to report their experiences treating infectious diseases with novel uses of existing FDA-approved drugs.

Expert poll highlights strength of US pharma sector and advances by emerging markets.

GE Healthcare Life Sciences and Guangzhou Development District Investment Promotion Bureau have signed an agreement to jointly establish a training center for biopharmaceutical professionals.

BioMed X has announced the successful completion of its first joint research project in the fields of COPD and IPF that it had undertaken with Boehringer Ingelheim.

CPI has partnered with ImmunoBiology (ImmBio) for the development of a heat-stabilized formulation of a mutli-antigen vaccine candidate against Pneumococcal diseases.

Data released by the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT Catapult) have shown that demands for specialist skills and investment in the cell and gene therapy industry in the United Kingdom are set to increase in the near future.

Iontas has entered into a collaboration agreement with Adaptate Biotherapeutics for the generation and optimization of antibodies for novel immune-oncology targets.

Horizon Discovery has announced its partnership with the Human Protein Atlas, which will see the incorporation of Horizon’s CRISPR-edited knockout cell models into the Cell Atlas program.

The new 50,000-square-foot facility will create 200 new jobs and accelerate commercialization of gene and cell therapies.

The acquisition aids in the expansion of the Astellas Focus Area approach, which involves the creation of medicines for diseases with high unmet medical needs by identifying combinations of biology, therapeutic modality and technology based on emerging science.

A NASEM report stresses the importance of information sharing by biopharma companies and cooperation among regulatory authorities.

Through the program, the company will introduce seven new manufacturing sites that will be completed and operational by the end of 2020.

Biopharma company, Zelluna Immunotherapy, and clinical stage biotech, Glycostem Therapeutics, have entered into a partnership focused on the development and manufacture of allogeneic T-cell receptor guided Natural Killer cell therapies for the treatment of cancer.

The companies announced a commercial supply agreement following FDA’s accelerated approval.

The acquisition of The Medicines Company and its investigational cholesterol-lowering therapy extends Novartis’ cardiovascular pipeline.

Lubrizol Life Science Health adopts new name and opens commercial manufacturing facility.

New training facilities, laboratories, packaging, gene therapy manufacturing, and biologics manufacturing highlight Thermo Fisher Scientific expansions.

BASF launches digital solutions for the pharma industry during CPhI Worldwide 2019.

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies will add a new building, including gene therapy laboratories, to its facility in College Station, TX.

West introduced NovaPure 3-mL Cartridge components and the SmartDose Gen. II 10-mL injector.

Schott and W.L. Gore introduced a prefillable, silicone-free glass syringe system, which won an award at CPhI Worldwide.

The company showcased its compact robotic nest filling machine at CPhI Worldwide 2019 on Nov.–7 in Frankfurt, Germany.

The agreement paves the way for GSK’s specialty HIV company, ViiV Healthcare, to develop a broadly neutralizing antibody, N6LS, for HIV treatment and prevention.

The companies have entered into a clinical and commercial agreement to use MaxCyte’s ExPERT platform to enable development of up to five of Vor’s engineered cell therapies.

Rentshler Biopharma has begun its expansion project in the United States by putting a single-use bioreactor into operation at the Milford facility in Massachusetts.

Bora announced the appointment of Samuel Ricchezza as president of its North American operations.

Lonza and Cryoport have partnered up to strengthen Lonza’s ‘vein-to-vein’ delivery network by removing supply chain hurdles faced by developers of personalized therapeutics.

Sangamo Therapeutics has revealed that the United Kingdom’s Medicines Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has authorized the first in-human clinical trial evaluating a chimeric antigen receptor regulatory T cell (CAR-Treg) therapy.

GE Healthcare Life Sciences has announced it will be working closely with Pharmadule Morimatsu to expand its KUBio “factory in a box” so that biopharma manufacturers will be able to quickly scale up vaccines, viral vector-based therapies, and other novel modalities.

The agency sent a warning letter to Torrent Pharma after an inspection found violations of current good manufacturing practices that included a failure to thoroughly investigate batch failures.