Centrient started production at its new statins API manufacturing unit in Toansa, India.

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.

FDA's CDER has launched an initiative to gain more efficient and transparent operations of its advisory panels.

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 root cause of the most serious integrity issues has generally been a lapse of ethical behavior on the part of an individual.

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.

CureVac’s first-generation COVID-19 vaccine candidate, CvnCoV, did not meet efficacy targets in a second interim analysis.

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

Sanofi’s new Pennsylvania facility expands production of Fluzone High-Dose Quadrivalent flu vaccine.

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.

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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.

CPI has revealed an agreement with DFE Pharma, making it the latest partner of the Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre (MMIC) collaboration.

Immodulon has received an indication of allowability from the European Patent Office for the claims in its patent application relating to its lead drug candidate.

The CGT Catapult has formed a consortium aimed at advancing the technology development and lowering costs of cell and gene therapy manufacturing.

Researchers from the Chalmers University of Technology and AstraZeneca have developed a new method of detecting and testing lipid nanoparticles.