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Funding for Zika Vaccine Hinders Development
Zika vaccine development is hindered by technical challenges and funding shortfalls.
Biogen Announces Name of Hemophilia Spin-Off Business
The company announced that Bioverativ will be the name of its new hemophilia spin-off business, which is expected to launch in early 2017.
NICE Draft Guidance Recommends Secukinumab for Treating Ankylosing Spondylitis
NICE recommends secukinumab for the treatment of patients with ankylosing spondylitis.
EMA Releases Data Integrity Guidance
The agency released the GMP guidance to help manufacturers ensure accurate data and minimize risk.
Testing Laboratory Receives Warning Letter
FDA issued a warning letter to contract testing laboratory, Adamson Analytical Laboratories, for CGMP violations.
Hospira Recalls Bupivacaine Hydrochloride Injection, USP
The company is voluntarily recalling one lot of product due to particulate matter.
PharmaTech Recalls Product Due to Contamination Risk
The company is voluntarily recalling liquid products due to possible Burkholderia cepacia contamination.
European Commission Publishes Pharmacovigilance Report
The three-year report emphasizes the roll of collaboration in drug safety.
Collaboration Develops More Efficacious Antibodies
Catalent Pharma Solutions teamed with Zumutor Biologics to develop antibodies with enhanced ADCC activity.
MilliporeSigma to Provide Development and Manufacturing Services to Y-mAbs
MilliporeSigma will provide support to Y-mAbs for the development of its monoclonal antibody for the treatment of pediatric brain cancer.
Phase III Trials for Bristol-Myers’ Opdivo Fail to Meet Primary Endpoints
Opdivo did not meet primary endpoints in Phase III trials investigating the drug as a monotherapy for untreated advanced non-small cell lung cancer in patients whose tumors expressed PD-L1.
FDA Releases First Doses of Sanofi Pasteur Influenza Vaccine for Shipment
Sanofi Pasteur will deliver the first of more than 65 million influenza vaccines to the United States throughout the 2016–2017 flu season.
EMA Publishes Report on Adaptive Pathways Pilot Project
The report addressed how the agency might support medicine development for patients’ unmet medical needs.
EMA Launches Public Consultation on Guidance for New Tuberculosis Treatments
The agency launched a public consultation on the revised guidance for new medicines to treat tuberculosis.
NIH Launches Zika Vaccine Clinical Trial
The NIH has launched a Phase I clinical trial in humans of an investigational Zika vaccine.
Alnylam Moves Forward on Multi-Product RNAi Facility
Jacobs Engineering Group was awarded a contract to provide engineering services and procurement for Alnylam Pharmaceuticals’ new manufacturing facility in Norton, Massachusetts.
Ribociclib Receives Breakthrough Therapy Designation
The cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor received Breakthrough Therapy Designation as a first line treatment for advanced breast cancer.
Astellas Transfers Manufacturing Subsidiary to Avara
The manufacturing subsidiary of Astellas Pharma in Oklahoma has been transferred to CMO Avara and renamed Avara Pharmaceutical Technologies.
FDA awards LIU for research into variability
A $2-million, three-year grant will explore how statistically-based pharmaceutical quality standards might be established.
Creative Fiction, Other Data Integrity Problems Listed in FDA Warning Letter to Chinese API Manufacturer
Xiamen Origin Biotech Co., Ltd, was cited, not only for inadequate quality management, but for falsifying information on certificates of analysis, having fictional employees sign CoAs, and having employees lie to inspectors.
Portable Device Delivers Biopharmaceuticals on Demand
An MIT-developed system uses microbes for manufacturing small amounts of vaccines and other therapies.
GSK, Verily to Set Up Bioelectronics Joint Venture
Galvani Bioelectronics will be based in Stevenage, UK, and headed by Kris Famm, GSK's vice president of bioelectronics R&D
Pfizer Strengthens its Gene Therapy Program by Acquiring Bamboo Therapeutics
The North Carolina-based company will expand Pfizer's capabilities in gene therapy research
Amgen: Neulasta Safe for Now; Dose Accuracy of Erenumab a New Focus
Amgen discussed the drug-delivery approaches to two of its biologics in a recent second-quarter earnings call.
NIST Issues mAb Reference Standard
NIST’s monoclonal antibody reference material can be used as a standard for biopharmaceutical analytical quality control.
Merck Returns Rights to Allergy Tablets Back to ALK-Abello
The move follows a warning from FDA wherein FDA cited ALK-Abello with numerous manufacturing violations.
The Industry Hopes Congress Approves PDUFA Program in 2016
FDA and industry seek speedy Congressional approval of new user fee plan.
NIH-Backed Yellow Fever Vaccine Trial Announced
The Phase I trial will test Bavarian Nordic’s vaccine, which is manufactured using a vaccine vector based on smallpox.
Eli Lilly CEO Announces Retirement
John C. Lechleiter will step down from his post as CEO of Eli Lilly effective December 31, 2016.
Avitide Plants Flag at Former Merck Location
The affinity purification company will set up shop at the former Merck & Co./GlycoFi facility in the Dartmouth Regional Technology Center in New Hampshire.