Pharmaceutical Technology Editors

Getinge’s new DPTE-EXO with Sleeveless DPTE-BetaBag is an alpha port with an external opening and an integrated funnel for automated aseptic transfer.

Following the recommendation of an independent vaccine panel, FDA is advising vaccine manufacturers to include an Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 component to their booster doses.

Ipsen will acquire Epizyme, who recently had their lead medicine Tazverik (tazemetostat) approved by FDA for treatment of relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma.

Inceptor Bio and the University of Minnesota aim to build a novel iPSC platform to accelerate cell therapy drug development.

MilliporeSigma and Lotte Group will collaborate on facility design and workforce training for a new biologics business unit in the US.

Under the collaboration, Avantor and GeminiBio will offer custom cGMP solutions to enhance process efficiency and accelerate speed-to-market of novel emerging therapy modalities.

The European Commission has approved Cosentyx for the treatment of various childhood arthritic conditions.

The European Commission has approved Xenpozyme as the first treatment for ASMD.

The action plan will span over five years and will fulfill a requirement of the Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for ALS Act.

MilliporeSigma’s new BioContinuum Seed Train Platform offering enables a fully closed bioprocessing environment for both fed-batch and perfusion N-production.

ImmunoGen has formed a research collaboration with Oxford BioTherapeutics to develop novel antibody-drug conjugates for cancers with high unmet needs.

The Sanofi-GSK vaccine is the first candidate to demonstrate efficacy in a placebo-controlled trial with a high-Omicron environment.

Lonza will produce drug product for Pierre Fabre’s monoclonal antibody W0180.

The partnership between Echosens and Novo Nordisk is intended to increase awareness and early diagnosis of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).

The new guidance outlines the approach the MHRA intends to take for products approved or pending in a decentralized procedure or mutual recognition procedures.

Novartis will endorse the Kigali Declaration on neglected tropical diseases and invest $250 million for R&D.

GSK will invest £1 billion in furthering R&D in malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV, as well as neglected tropical diseases.

Kindeva’s acquisition of iPharma will increase the company’s inhalation formulation outsourcing capabilities.

Aizon Digitize is designed to help life science manufacturers transition data from paper to digital.

Connect in Pharma will host an awards ceremony to showcase innovations in sustainable pharmaceutical packaging.

The agency will review laboratory study and CMC data on the bivalent vaccine that targets two strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic about the benefits of international collaboration were discussed in a May 2022 workshop.

Avid Bioservices has expanded its viral vector development and manufacturing facility with the addition of analytical and process development suites.

Orbit Discovery has been awarded the Innovate UK Grant to expand high throughput cell-based functional screening platform capabilities in peptide drug discovery.

FDA has issued an Emergency Use Authorization for the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines in children as young as six months old.

Batavia Biosciences is expanding its headquarters and R&D capabilities in its Netherlands facility.

Aptamer Group has signed a deal with Flip Gene Therapeutics to support the development of inducible gene therapies.

SCHOTT is planning to triple its ready-to-use vial production capacity in the United States to meet increasing demand for storing injectable drugs.

Boehringer Ingelheim has signed an option to acquire Trutino Biosciences.

Humanigen and PCI Pharma Servicesare partnering up for the commercialization of lenzilumab.