The US federal government awarded new funding to the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals, including funding under the American Rescue Plan that will be used to advance vaccine manufacturing.

The new lab near Continuus Pharmaceutical’s current facilities in Massachusetts will expand the company’s process development capabilities to high-potency drugs.

A new report by Radnor Capital Partners and commissioned by the BIA has shown that international investors are being drawn toward the biotech sector of the UK.

Aptamer Group has signed a contract with a global pharmaceutical company to use Optimers to support innovative vaccine development for neurodegenerative disease.

CDMO Idifarma has launched a new service aimed at delivering an accelerated pathway for complex drugs.

EMA's PRAC has found a possible link to very rare cases of myocarditis and pericarditis after vaccination with Comirnaty and Spikevax COVID-19 vaccines.

After a review of three cases, EMA's PRAC has advised against the use of Janssen’s COVID-19 vaccine in people who have a history of capillary leak syndrome.

EMA's safety committee, PRAC, has concluded that there is no evidence linking the viral vector in Zynteglo to a blood cancer known as acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

Eli Lilly and Company has announced its acquisition of biotech firm Protomer Technologies, giving it a protein-engineering platform for next-generation protein therapeutics.

Moderna announces supply agreement with the Argentina government for 20 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.

The IND for Tevogen Bio's TVGN-489, an allogeneic COVID-19-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte, received rapid clearance from FDA.

GEA’s plug-and-produce skids are designed for multi-product pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical separation.

NewAge Industries is adding cleanrooms at its Pennsylvania headquarters.

AMRI reinforces positioning as a CDMO with name change and acquires the formulation and fill/finish company, Integrity Bio, and biologics company, LakePharma.

UltraBurst has a high disintegration speed, which is for all market segments, from prescriptions to nutraceuticals.

Purisys is now certified for ISO 17025 for testing and calibration laboratories and ISO 17034 for reference material producers

FDA’s review and approval of Aduhelm triggers controversy and a call for review from within the Agency.

Sparx Therapeutics will build its first commercial manufacturing facility in Yangzhou, China, for antibody drug production.

GlaxoSmithKline and Alector have partnered to co-develop two mAbs for a range of neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease.

Univercells Technologies and VectorBuilder to produce custom viral vectors for cell and gene therapies as well as vaccine applications.

Tezepelumab, being developed by AstraZeneca in collaboration with Amgen, reduced asthma exacerbations in Phase II and III clinical trials.

The collaboration continues as the companies design bioprocess impurity reagent sets to detect residual HCP from HEK 293 cells.

A new media panel, gene kit, and advanced resins that are now in Thermo Fisher Scientific’s gene therapy portfolio aim to reduce manufacturing costs and increase gene therapy viability.

Exscientia has been given funding from the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator to accelerate the optimization of a new class of COVID-19 drugs created using its AI drug design platform.

MHRA has granted marketing authorization for Diurnal Group’s Efmody as a treatment of adult and adolescent patients with CAH in Great Britain.

V. Ashok has been appointed as ACG's new group chief financial officer.

Novasep and Exelixis have signed a manufacturing services agreement for the CGMP clinical manufacturing of a next-generation ADC candidate.

Recipharm has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with His Majesty the King of Morocco, the Moroccan government, and a consortium of leading banks from the country, for fill/finish capacity in the country.