Deals, Development and Manufacturing

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.

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.

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 new service will assist pharmaceutical companies with quality control and analytical requirements.

The companies will work to discover and develop therapies for the treatment of liver-related cardio-metabolic diseases using Dicerna’s proprietary GalXC RNAi platform technology.

Alkermes plans to advance its investigational new drug-enabling capabilities for lead preclinical assets in the Rodin development candidate portfolio.

If successful, the acquisition will boost Recipharm’s global position in the contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) market.

Through the agreement, Roche will gain full rights to the company’s portfolio of molecules for fibrotic diseases, most notably PRM-151, Promedior’s lead product candidate.

With the gene-editing technology, Evotec will have the ability to accelerate research and enable the testing and development of new drugs.

Norwegian clinical-stage immunoncology company, Lytix Biopharma, has entered into a clinical collaboration with US-based Iovance Biotherapeutics.

A clinical-stage company that was spun out of the VUB university in Belgium, eTheRNA immunotherapies, has revealed it will be participating in an EU research project aimed at developing off-the-shelf mRNA nanomedicines.

A simulation-based drug discovery company, Turbine, has announced the closing of an institutional funding round worth EUR 3 million (US $3.3 million), which will be used to redesign the oncology drug discovery process.

The companies plan to promote and manufacture Maverick, an emergency-use, cartridge-based auto-injector.

The transaction is expected to be finalized in early 2020.

GE Healthcare Life Sciences will supply Akeso Pharmaceuticals with the FlexFactory platform to accelerate production of antibody drugs in the Guangzhou region.

Schott will combine its adaptiQ platform with West’s Ready Pack system.

The partnership will center on the development and commercialization of DCR-HBVS, Dicerna’s investigational therapy in Phase I clinical development, using its proprietary RNAi platform technology.

The project will seek to deliver treatments for the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis through submitted proposals from potential collaborators.

The companies will develop innovative formulations for drugs to treat rare diseases using Catalent’s oral disintegrating tablet technologies.

The goal of the investment is for the cures to be made available across the globe, including in sub-Saharan Africa’s low-resource communities.

The partners have developed a scalable, cost-effective purification process for adeno-associated viruses.

Under the agreement, gene and cell therapy companies can go directly to Aldevron for NTC’s technology without acquiring a license from NTC.

The company will produce the anti-HER3 antibody drug HMBD-001for use within a clinical partnership between Cancer Research UK and Hummingbird Bioscience to test the agent in a Phase I trial.

The therapy received positive results in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial in 34 adults with proven celiac disease.

Through the agreement, Foamix will have access to $20 million of financing to fund the commercial launches of the topical treatments.

The transaction is set to be completed in the first quarter of 2020.

The transaction is anticipated to close by the end of 2019.

GammaDelta Therapeutics has unveiled the formation of a new spin-out company, Adaptate Biotherapeutics, aimed at developing antibody-based therapies that modulate gamma delta T-cells.

The long-term agreement gives CombiGene the authority to manufacture and commercialize the drug if it is approved after clinical studies.

Lonza, through its Ibex Solutions, will now cover preclinical and clinical development and manufacturing for a significant portion of Genmab’s pipeline.