Funding and Investments

The expansion will increase the company’s single-use capacity to meet growing demand.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded grants totaling $41.6 million to establish four cooperative research centers focused on developing vaccines to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

Amgen issued a notice of termination of its migraine collaboration agreements with Novartis, against which Novartis filed a lawsuit in response.

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.

The acquisition will establish a clinical pipeline for Biogen of gene-therapy candidates in ophthalmology.

Technology vendors are strengthening their positions in China as the nation emphasizes self-sufficiency in research, development, and manufacturing.

The company will invest an additional $60 million to expand its manufacturing facility in Durham County, NC.

Company to focus on innovation, growth, and productivity with creation of new units.

The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) revealed 22 new projects and funding aimed to advance US biopharmaceutical manufacturing.

Pricing pressures, investment volatility, and government disfunction greet Biopharma in 2019.

Bio/pharma companies are successfully launching novel therapies; however, the industry still needs to work on manufacturing innovation.

The company will use GE Healthcare’s off-the-shelf KUBio biologics factory, which is expected to start operations in 2020, to provide development and manufacturing for early- to late-clinical and early-commercial manufacturing stages.

The investment builds on a collaboration the companies entered into in 2007 for various biomanufacturing projects.

The partnership, co-funded by Enterprise Ireland, will develop technologies for monitoring the quality of biopharma processes.

Cobra, Pall, and Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult are collaborating to develop continuous manufacturing for gene therapy production.

The new center will integrate biologics drug discovery, development, clinical manufacturing, and commercial manufacturing.

The vaccine producer announced an expansion to its Holly Springs, NC, manufacturing facility where it will increase production of its cell-based quadrivalent influenza vaccine.

The new collaborative center aims to serve as a hub for innovations in drug development and manufacturing.

While recognizing the unsung work of scientists in corporate research and development, the Galien Awards remind the industry of its priorities: patients and future patients within the global community.

The expansion adds new capabilities and enhances existing service offerings for both oral and parenteral dosage forms.

The acquisition will allow Lonza to further develop technology for scalable autologous cell-therapy manufacturing.

The company added a new EUR 63-million (US$72-million) packaging center at its manufacturing site in Darmstadt, Germany.

While food, shelter, and clothing are the primal essentials for life, hope-as embodied by modern medicine-has now become part of that human expectation.

GE Healthcare, Cobra Biologics, and the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) have entered into a collaboration to advance manufacturing of adeno-associated virus vectors for gene therapy.

The company plans to lay off approximately 400 employees to support the restructuring of its R&D organization.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recently rejected National Health Service’s funding of Kymriah for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) despite recognizing that the drug has significant clinical benefits.

The biopharmaceutical company will invest approximately $800 million to expand facilities and manufacturing capacity at its campus in Rensselaer County, NY.

The drug particle engineering and nanotechnology company offers a nanotechnology platform that can revive failed drugs in the pharma pipeline.

The collaboration will explore the potential of Dyadic’s gene-expression platform to produce multiple biologic vaccines and drugs.

The National Science Foundation grant will be used to commercialize a synthetic biology platform for cancer drug development.