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The agency celebrates the efforts it has made in creating a system for the evaluation and supervision of medicines throughout the European Union.

The FDA guidance provides an explanation of changes to user fees under the Biosimilar User Fee Amendments of 2017 under Title IV of the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017.

As the facility becomes fully operational, the company believes the potential risk of a shortage of the product due to increasing demand will be significantly reduced.

The new course is directed at analyzing the skills gap in the manufacture of cell and gene therapies as they progress toward manufacturing at scale.

The amount was the third highest year recorded and investment has increased more than 400% since 2012.

The drug treats adult patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis with active disease evidenced by relapses or imaging features of inflammatory activity.

The fully integrated, pre-qualified, pre-installed aseptic filling facility can be shipped globally for drug development and the manufacturing of personalized medicines and clinical trial supplies.

The new company will work to provide the manufacturing technologies and processes needed to develop and commercialize new cell and gene therapies through individual company products and expertise.

The facility is now equipped to handle commercial manufacturing of a sterile injectable product in a pre-filled syringe presentation.

The agreement centers around the development of new stem-cell derived allogeneic T-cell therapies for the treatment of cancer.

The agency’s joint Big Data Task Force and the Heads of Medicines Agencies proposed actions for the use of big data to support innovation and public health.

GE Healthcare Life Sciences’ new facility for cell and gene processing supplies will be open in 2022.

While the US public and law makers push for price controls, pharma’s venture capitalists have other ideas for balancing innovation and affordability.

FDA sent a warning letter to Health Pharma USA after an inspection found the company’s quality unit was not properly overseeing its drug manufacturing operations.

The formation of the new gene therapy company stems from the progress and success of Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s clinical manufacturing and gene therapy work.

The next-generation gene editing system can be applied to the development of novel cell and gene therapies.

FDA has granted fast track designation for Novavax’s NanoFlu, a recombinant quadrivalent flu vaccine, for use by adults age 65 years and older.

The renaming comes after the sale of Bosch Packaging Technology to CVC Capital Partners was completed on Jan. 2, 2020.

The drug is formulated to improve cardiac contractility with a reduced effect on heart rate, blood pressure, and myocardial oxygen consumption while potentially avoiding adverse events associated with current inotrope therapies.

Karen Flynn rejoins Catalent as president of biologics operations; regional presidents named for US and Europe.

Horizon Discovery Group and Mammoth Biosciences have signed a collaboration and license agreement aimed at the development of the next generation of engineered Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell lines to improve biotherapeutics production.

The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT Catapult) has revealed that the United Kingdom is a favorable environment for cell and gene therapy clinical trials.

ProBioGen and Lava Therapeutics have closed the cell line development and manufacturing agreement for Lava’s novel bispecific antibody lead candidate.

Catalent’s FlexDirect service offers sponsors multiple delivery options from a single inventory.

The new automated service connects companies with biologics development and manufacturing services.

Top of CDER’s to-do list for 2020 is tracking adverse events more effectively and combating the opioid crisis.

Through the agreement, Eli will expand its immunology pipeline with lebrikizumab, Dermira’s novel, investigational, monoclonal antibody designed to bind interleukin-13 with high affinity.

The approval comes after the results of a clinical trial that showed 61% of patients had a response lasting six months or longer.