Pharmaceutical Technology Editors

Manja Boerman tapped as president of Cell & Gene Therapy for Catalent with retirement of Pete Buzy.

Private equity firm, Ampersand Capital Partners, has made a majority investment into contract packaging organization (CPO), Tjoapack.

Catalent and Johnson & Johnson announce joint investment and tech transfer to prepare for rapid scale-up and segregated cGMP commercial manufacturing capacity.

The Cambridge Design Partnership and the Stevanato Group have announced a partnership that will see the development of a new pen-injector based on the Axis-D technology and IP licensed from Haselmeier in 2019.

ILC Therapeutics, a biotech company based in the United Kingdom, has discovered two separate novel treatments for patients suffering with COVID-19 prior to needing ventilators.

AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford have announced that they will collaborate on the global development and distribution of the university’s potential recombinant adenovirus vaccine aimed at preventing COVID-19 infection.

Solentim and ATUM will bundle together the Leap-In Transposase platform with the VIPS single cell cloning instrument for cell line development.

The new printers contain integrated PTLab software and can print directly onto slides and cassettes, eliminating handwritten mistakes and expensive labels.

MilliporeSigma’s Bio4C Software Suite combines process control, analytics, and plant-level automation.

With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Batavia’s low-cost vaccine manufacturing process will be used to produce Wistar’s drug substance and drug product formulations, to be distributed to vaccine manufacturers.

The event will be rescheduled for April 20–22, 2021 at the Javits Center in New York City.

The platform provides access to case studies, new technologies, expert insight, published and peer-reviewed articles, webinars, news updates, videos, and interviews.

A comprehensive turnkey system based on LabVantage’s laboratory information management system platform allows laboratories to implement COVID-19 biobanking, testing, and research.

The approval was based on pharmacokinetic data, the relationship of exposure to efficacy, and the relationship of exposure to safety.

The company has expanded capabilities for aggregate analytics to include dynamic light scattering.

The statement, published by the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities, outlined its commitment to a strengthening of global collaboration in the fight against COVID-19.

NIH trial shows remdesivir accelerates recovery; Gilead study shows similar efficacy for 5- and 10-day dosing.

The companies will work to accelerate the development of CytoAgents’ lead COVID-19 drug candidate, GP168, into human clinical trials.

Merck will provide funding and will work with researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology to identify targets for therapeutic intervention and vaccine development.

The decision is part of the Takeda’s goal to divest $10 billion in non-core assets and focus on its key business areas.

A UK BioIndustry Association industry-led vaccine manufacturing group has welcomed a recent announcement by the government of the UK, that it will receive £14 million (US$17.3 million) in investment to rapidly scale up the development of vaccines for COVID-19.

MicrofluidX has raised £1.4 million (US$1.7 million) in seed funding, which it will use to develop its novel cell bioprocessing technology for cell and gene therapy.

A report into the Swiss biotech sector has shown that there is continued growth in the sector, which has received investments from public and private companies worth CHF 1.2 billion (US$1.2 billion).

Technical services and regulatory affairs consulting group, Diamond Pharma Services, has announced its acquisition of PharmaCentral-a pharmacovigilance services and medical affairs business based in Dublin, Ireland.

A new strategic plan from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, details the institute’s plan for accelerating research to diagnose, prevent and treat COVID-19.

The vaccine will be based on a ReiThera-proprietary simian adenoviral vector with strong immunological potency and low pre-existing immunity in humans.

Emergent will offer up its drug substance manufacturing services with support by investments from Johnson & Johnson starting in 2020.

The approval was based off of positive results from a Phase III study that showed patients 70 years or younger treated with the BTK inhibitor lived longer without disease progression.

Bayer will provide CAD $1.5 million (USD$1 million) toward two studies to evaluate its chloroquine and interferon beta-1b combination therapies.

Wavelength Pharmaceuticals expanded production of APIs for certain pharmaceutical products needed to manage respiratory critical care patients in the COVID-19 pandemic.