Pharmaceutical Technology Editors

Reports of myocarditis and pericarditis following Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccinations prompts warnings.

AbbVie has exercised its right to acquire TeneoOne, along with its lead immunotherapeutic asset for the potential treatment of multiple myeloma.

Amgen’s Aimovig has become the first and only approved treatment in Japan for treating migraine attacks in adults by blocking the CGRP-R.

FDA has granted breakthrough therapy designation to donanemab, Eli Lilly and Co.’s investigational antibody treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.

SP Scientific Products’ SP Hull LyoStar 4.0 R&D freeze dryer supports rapid freeze-dry cycle development, optimization, and process scale-up.

The companies will utilize the Cocoon Platform for clinical point-of-care manufacturing.

The companies have entered into an agreement to develop processes for a novel immunotherapy protein.

The University of Birmingham has been confirmed as the third National Training Centre in the Advanced Therapies Skills Training Network (ATSTN) initiative

GlaxoSmithKline will focus on vaccines and specialty medicines while spinning off consumer healthcare business.

The European Commission has purchased an additional 150 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for delivery in 2022.

Ilya Pharma has been granted approval by the Swedish Medical Product Agency and Swedish Ethical Review Authority for initiation of a Phase II clinical trial of its ILP100 gene therapy.

EMA's recent positive opinion for a recombinant vaccine for rabbits developed using Algenex’s proprietary and patent protected Baculovirus vector-mediated expression platform, CrisBio, should push the full commercialization of the platform forward.

Vectura has signed an agreement with Incannex Healthcare for the pre-clinical development of IHL-216A, an inhaled drug product for the treatment of traumatic brain injury.

The final guidance document is intended to help determine which reporting category is appropriate for a change in CMC information to an approved biologics application.

The guidance provides recommendations for including premenopausal women in breast cancer clinical trials.

Exscientia has entered into a binding agreement to acquire the artificial intelligence precision-based medicines company, Allcyte.

RECOVERY trial results have shown that Regeneron’s investigational antibody combination therapy reduces the mortality risk for seronegative hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19.

The US government will invest $3 billion from the American Rescue Plan into a COVID-19 antiviral development strategy.

GlaxoSmithKline and iTeos Therapeutics enter into a development and commercialization collaboration worth up to $2.08 billion for a new therapeutic anti-cancer mAb candidate.

Recent analysis has shown that two doses of COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective against hospitalization as a result of infection with the Delta variant of COVID-19.

BIA has published a report presenting the findings of a survey on the public attitudes toward equal access to medicines for those living with rare diseases.

Horiba has joined a consortium aimed at accelerating the development of process analytical technologies for cell and gene therapy manufacturing

Evonik and Stanford University have signed a research collaboration to develop and market a new drug delivery platform for mRNA and gene therapy.

Yposkesi is building its second commercial facility for cell and gene therapy manufacturing at its campus on Corbeil-Essonnes, France.

Optima has teamed up with the Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus and Heidelberg University to develop a unit for decentralized, automated production of CAR-T cell therapies.

What can the biopharma industry learn from its rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic?

Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine is 90.4% effective and maintains efficacy when administered with an influenza vaccine.

The agency approved two batches of drug substance manufactured at the Emergent BioSolutions facility in Baltimore for use in the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.

As a safety measure, supervisory authorities in the European Union have recommended not releasing batches of Janssen’s COVID-19 vaccine with API manufactured at Emergent BioSolutions’ Maryland facility.

The new site in Monts, France, which is operated by Recipharm, will produce finished COVID-19 vaccine product.