
In seeking a data-driven approach to efficient drug development, MMS aims to enhance its capabilities in advanced clinical trial design, innovative statistics, and data science with the acquisition.
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In seeking a data-driven approach to efficient drug development, MMS aims to enhance its capabilities in advanced clinical trial design, innovative statistics, and data science with the acquisition.

This site was previously the beneficiary of a €7.3 million (US$7.6 million) investment, made in 2022, earmarked for the production of HPAPIs to treat cancer.

With the approval, FDA granted SpringWorks a rare pediatric disease priority review voucher.

Acoramidis was approved by FDA in November 2024 and is prescribed in the US under the brand name Attruby.

The company says it is the pharmaceutical market’s first wet granulator with an integrated, truly continuous dryer.

While this approval addresses breast cancer, olaparib in combination with durvalumab was approved by the EU in August 2024 for treatment of endometrial cancer.

These infections can be caused by certain Gram-negative microorganisms, making the infections challenging to control due to high antimicrobial resistance.

Survey results show that being intellectually stimulated and getting assigned challenging projects are two key drivers of employee satisfaction, yet job training is lacking.

Installation was performed during the summer of 2024, and the system has already successfully completed its first production run for a leading biotech company.

Patient enrollment is currently underway for the highest-dose cohort of AdvanCell’s potentially best-in-class targeted alpha therapy for metastatic prostate cancer.

A new bioanalytical lab being opened by Ardena at the site is expected to be operational by the third quarter of 2025.

The transaction is expected to enhance Jabil’s development and commercial production of auto-injectors, pen injectors, inhalers, and on-body pumps.

The tariffs President Trump wants to levy against Canada and Mexico are on hold, for now, but China has already announced it intends to proceed with retaliatory tariffs against the US.

While FMS has specialized in the design, installation, and maintenance of environmental monitoring systems, Trescal’s focus has been on calibration and metrology services.

Another eight medications already authorized in the EU were recommended for extensions of various indications.

The reduction is expected to be “substantially completed,” the San Diego-based company said, in the second quarter of 2025.

Drug manufacturer Novo Nordisk said the approval establishes Ozempic as the most broadly indicated GLP-1 RA in its class.

The deal is being made for an all-cash price of $250 million, but with an additional $752.5 million available in potential milestone payments.

Data from a Phase III study that evaluated lazertinib, in combination with amivantamab, in comparison to osimertinib as a first-line treatment resulted in the EC’s decision.

The company’s investments in Canada since 2023 have now resulted in the creation, or potential thereof, of 1200 new job positions.

Imfinzi received an expanded indication for lung cancer from FDA in August 2024, and Tagrisso had been approved to treat lung cancer in China in June 2024.

The agency’s newly issued letter to Sanofi amends one sent in December 2024, and stems from inspections at its Massachusetts drug manufacturing facility in June and July 2024.

The 1200-square-meter facility that is planned will enhance analytical development and testing capabilities to support scale-up of products for customers.

This investment is additional to and separate from £11 million that was announced in the fall of 2024 for creating new jobs and expanding Almac’s global analytical services capabilities.

The collaboration will leverage Thermo Fisher’s Accelerator Drug Development stable of solutions, which was launched in the fall of 2024.

Kloxxado was approved by FDA in 2021 for emergency treatment of opioid overdose, and Emergent also distributes the FDA-approved over-the-counter treatment Narcan.

Although specifics about the milestone were not immediately provided, Scribe is eligible to receive more than $1.2 billion for certain research, development, regulatory, and commercial benchmarks.

The transaction adds a pipeline of early-stage drug candidates against high-value targets to Telix’s portfolio, along with other novel targets currently in the discovery stage.

This is the latest facility launch for BioDuro, following a kilogram laboratory and compound management center, both on the same site, in October 2024.

CNP-104 is a biodegradable nanoparticle that previously received fast track designation from FDA in January 2022, which would eventually make it eligible for accelerated approval and priority review.