Deals, Development and Manufacturing

AbbVie and Capsida have expanded their existing collaboration to advance three new gene therapy programs.

The goal of this collaboration is to develop an approach to personalized radiotherapy and drug discovery that is based in genomics and artificial intelligence.

LIfT and Minaris will work together to develop a manufacturing process for LIfT’s allogeneic neutrophil progenitor cell therapy.

GenScript PrioBio and Bio Immunitas will work together to develop and fast track manufacturing of a novel therapeutic platform.

Scientific Laboratory Supplies’ acquisition of C&M will bolster the company’s scientific calibration, maintenance, and validation offerings.

deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, will whole-genome sequence 35,000 African-American samples provided by Illumina and Nashville Biosciences.

The efficacy data across multiple clinical endpoints and a favorable safety profile support the potential of AMB-05X as a best-in-class therapy for the treatment of TGCT regardless of surgical resectability.

The partnership led to Asimov licensing its clonal GMP HEK293 suspension cell line to CBM for pre-clinical and clinical production of viral vectors for its clients.

Recently, 2seventy bio announced the initiation of a strategic partnership with JW Therapeutics aiming at the collaboration being the development of 2seventy bio’s MAGE-A4 cell therapy in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao.

Pfizer and Gero have partnered to discover potential therapeutic targets for fibrotic diseases using machine learning technology.

The collaboration between AbbVie and Anima Biotech will combine Anima's mRNA Lightning technology platform with AbbVie's extensive expertise in oncology and immunology.

The definitive agreement will give AstraZeneca global rights to CinCor’s portfolio of cardiorenal disease treatments.

Ipsen’s $952 million acquisition of Albireo is designed to bolster the company's rare disease portfolio.

Sartorius and RoosterBio will work together to address purification challenges and establish scalable downstream manufacturing processes for exosome-based therapies.

Agilent’s acquisition of Avida grants them access to high-performance enrichment workflows that enable NGS approaches for studying cancer.

Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, will pay Kelun-Biotech up to $9l3 billion for seven early-stage oncology treatments.

She also mentioned the Clinical Trials Regulation and the Clinical Trials Information System (CTIS) launching at the same time to help energize the clinical research area of the EU.

In terms of extensions, the committee recommended Adcirca, Dupixent, Edistride, Enhertu, Fintepla, Forxiga, Hemlibra, Imfinzi (including two new indications), Kerendia, Spikevax and Triumeq.

GSK and Wave Life Sciences have entered into a collaboration to drive drug discovery and development for novel genetic targets.

AbCellera and Rallybio are teaming up to discover, develop, and commercialize novel antibody-based therapeutics for rare diseases.

Under the collaboration between Vertex and Entrada, the companies will work on discovering and developing intracellular endosomal escape vehicle therapeutics for myotonic dystrophy type 1.

Amgen’s $27.8 billion acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics, an Irish biotechnology company, is one of the largest of 2022.

The partnership will see the pharma giants partner with researchers from A*STAR and various Singapore universities.

Merck will use BigHat’s AI/machine learning-enabled platform to design candidates for up to three drug discovery programs.

The agreement will see Immutep and Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany jointly fund the INSIGHT-005 study.

AstraZeneca inked a deal worth up to $320 million to purchase Neogene Therapeutics, a biotech start-up focused on T-cell receptor therapies.

Merck will purchase Imago BioSciences, a biotechnology company focused on bone marrow disorders, for approximately $1.35 billion.

Biotech startup, Cradle, has raised $5.4 million in seed funding with an AI-enabled design platform that allows for the synthetic building of cell factories to produce proteins.

CellVax Therapeutics has selected Theragent, a new CDMO, to manufacture clinical trial material for a new Phase II prostate cancer immunotherapy drug candidate.

The deal will see Sanofi use Insilico’s AI drug discovery platform to advance up to six new drug development candidates.