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The companies aim to assess automated CAR-T cell therapy manufacturing at the point-of-care and develop technologies to facilitate patient access to immunotherapies.

Alcami Biologics formed to meet market demands for biological drug development services.

The Pharma Services business of Thermo Fisher Scientific will invest $150 Million at three facilities.

A $100-million investment will expand a range of the CDMO’s service capabilities and offerings.

Findings from the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute could enable a new generation of anti-infectives.

Richard Francis will step down as CEO of Sandoz, effective March 31, 2019.

The companies announced a collaboration to jointly discover and develop treatments to address unmet medical needs in a specific neurological disease.

The company received $4.8 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate global health research in the development of vaccines and antibody-based treatments for infectious diseases.

The agency published guidance to help with the development of enrichment strategist for clinical investigations of drug and biologic effectiveness.

Brexit update: The UK government has rejected the withdrawal deal again and now faces further uncertainty, despite rejections of a 'no-deal' scenario by ministers, as well as a high probability of Brexit delay.

Stream Bio entered into a new agreement with DBA Italia to launch Stream Bio’s nanotech-based bioimaging probes in Italy.

Norman (Ned) Sharpless, director of the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health, will become FDA acting commissioner.

The FDA planned budget features added funds allotted to improved oversight of drugs, biologics, and medical devices.

FDA sent a warning letter to Jubilant Life Sciences after investigators found CGMP violations.

The collaboration’s enhanced data exchange combined with advanced analytics are expected to reduce raw material variability and improve biomanufacturing performance reliability.

Ned Sharpless is tapped to take on acting commissioner role following Gottlieb’s resignation.

The companies will join forces to improve gene- and cell-therapy manufacturing using the cloud and machine learning.

The acquisition of the site in Copenhagen, Denmark, will significantly expand Fujifilm’s capacity and capabilities.

The new facility, located at the company’s headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA, is expected to meet all clinical and commercial development needs of the company’s lead gene therapy program.

Procarta Biosystems has received investment from Novo Holdings REPAIR Impact Fund to the tune of €1.5 million, which will be used to develop a new class of antibiotics to tackle AMR.

The agency sent a warning letter to ANDAPharm, LLC after inspectors found the company’s cleaning and stability testing procedures were inadequate.

Iksuda Therapeutics and Femtogenix, have signed a license agreement aimed at progressing Iksuda’s lead ADC to clinic, with the aim of targeting difficult-to-treat solid tumors.

OSE Immunotherapeutics has been granted authorization to commence a Phase I clinical trial for checkpoint inhibitor BI 765063 (previously OSE-172).

The new automated cloud-based tool allows for the design of targeted single-cell DNA custom panels.

FDA Commissioner Gottlieb released a statement on the agency’s efforts to refine the naming convention for biosimilars to balance competition and to help ensure patient safety.

Gottlieb’s tenure included record new drug approvals and steps taken to curb opioid abuse.

The companies will use GeoVax’s vaccine technology to develop malaria vaccine candidates.

Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) and Novasep will partner to develop systems for membrane chromatography using Novasep’s BioSC platform and SSB’s single-use technology.