Pharmaceutical Technology Editors

Additional companies join Merck KGaA and Neviah Genomics in the Israel BioIncubator.

The Indiana Biosciences Research Institute will accelerate collaboration and focus on human-health solutions.

Catalent opens clinical-trial supply facility in Shanghai, China.

Baxter and Cell Therapeutics enter a licensing agreement to develop and commercialize pacritinib.

Thermo Fisher must divest of cell culture media and sera lines, and other businesses, in purchase of Life Technologies.

Almac releases an enhanced third-party logistics customer billing application.

Harlan Korea appoints Kwan Goo Edmond (Ed) Cho as its new president.

Pure MHC and Catalent sign an agreement to develop RL21A using Catalent's GPEx technology.

Stada licenses 3M's transdermal technology for a fentanyl patch.

Mylan and the Indian biopharmaceutical company Biocon receive approval for a biosimilar version of trastuzumab in India. Also, Mylan and Teva reach settlement on Copaxone in the EU.

European Medicines Agency announces the launch of the Accelerated development of vaccine benefit-risk collaboration in Europe (ADVANCE) project.

Coldstream Laboratories names director of formulation development.

GlaxoSmithKline plans to invest nearly $41 million to expand its operations at its facility in Montrose, the United Kingdom.

Camargo Pharmaceuticals appoints a veteran health executive as new COO.

Merck KGaA plans to build a new biomanufacturing facility in Nantong, China.

CareFusion will acquire GE Healthcare’s Vital Signs division.

Phase I/II study to evaluate treatment of patients with melanoma using Pfizer's spalbociclib and GSK's trametinib.

Manufacturing of products made at the Barceloneta, Puerto Rico plant will be moved to other sites.

Unilife to begin commercial supply in 2014.

Catalent has signed a product development agreement with immunology company Pure MHC (major histocompatibility complex), which specializes in MHC-based diagnostics and therapeutics.

Plan outlines key areas of collaboration.

New CDMO to be formed from the combination of DSM Pharmaceutical Products and Patheon in a $2.6-billion transaction.

Xcelience appoints Clinical Supplies VP of its new Birmingham, United Kingdom site.

USP issues call for candidates for its 2015-2020 Council of Experts.

Covance Inc. and Pathoquest have announced a collaboration to provide next-generation sequencing (NGS) based biosafety assessments to detect and identify viral contaminants within biologic compounds.

Ei Lilly announces investments in insulin manufacturing capacity for its sites in Indianapolis, Puerto Rico, France, and China.

Intertek is now offering comprehensive services for the development of orally inhaled and intranasal drug products (OINDPs) for both small molecules and biologics.

The systems are designed for the manufacture of oncology products and to research new biotech products.

Association recognizes groundbreaking researchers in the field of pharmaceutical sciences.

Shire-s agreement to acquire ViroPharma will strengthen its rare-disease portfolio.