TFF Pharmaceuticals announces findings that inhaled niclosamide significantly inhibits viral replication of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.

Medicago and GSK have announced that Health Canada has approved COVIFENZ, an adjuvanted plant-based COVID-19 vaccine.

USP is developing mRNA quality guidelines to help companies and regulators bring innovative medicines to market faster.

Janssen will pay upwards of $1 billion for exclusive rights to use Remix’s RNA-based drug discovery platform on three specific targets.

Eli Lilly and Company are investing $700 million into a Boston-based facility for the newly announced Institute for Genetic Medicine.

Taconic Biosciences Cage+ colony management service aims to offer comprehensive coverage for contract breeding services.

MilliporeSigma and Waters will work together to build an extractables and leachables (E&L) reference library.

Scottish Enterprise has awarded £20 million (US$27 million) to Valneva Scotland to advance vaccine development.

Alvea has begun preclinical testing of a scalable, shelf-stable DNA vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 variants.

Sanofi and GSK announce they are seeking regulatory authorization for COVID-19 vaccine.

MHRA has opened a consultation on the proposed changes to clinical trial legislation in the UK.

Novavax announces the first doses of Nuvaxovid COVID-19 vaccine have begun shipping to European Union member states.

The Center for Breakthrough Medicines and BioAnalysis LLC have formed a strategic alliance to offer novel analytical testing services for CGT clients.

Semarion raises £2.14 million GBP (US$2.89 million) seed funding to support the commercial development of Semarion’s SemaCyte cell assaying platform.

Noema Pharma announces first patient dosed in its Phase IIb clinical trial of mGluR5 inhibitor NOE-101 in trigeminal neuralgia.

Hoffman Neopac has signed a partnership with Saperatec to begin recycling aluminum laminate composites upon its opening in mid-2023.

The European Medicines Regulatory Network has adopted a Common Standard for the electronic product information on medicines in the European Union.

FDA officials and their scientific advisors have come down hard on clinical development programs that rely on study results from a single foreign country, instead of from multi-regional trials following harmonized R&D standards.

Quotient Sciences announces that it has integrated drug substance into its flagship Translational Pharmaceutics platform.

Recipharm has strengthened its biologics manufacturing capabilities with the acquisition of both Vibalogics and Arranta Bio.

The turnkey facilities will promote scalable vaccine production for an end-to-end manufacturing network for mRNA-based vaccines in Africa.

Health Canada authorizes Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for individuals 18 years of age and older.

PETA Science Consortium International e.V. and PETA scientist Jeffrey Brown share goals with new FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf.

FDA has approved Pyrukynd (mitapivat) tablets to treat hemolytic anemia in adults with pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency.

The company has announced plans to establish a commercial presence in six European countries.

EC has approved Oxbryta (voxelotor) as a treatment for hemolytic anemia in patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) age 12 years and older.

The EC approved AstraZeneca’s Saphenlo (anifrolumab) for the treatment of active autoantibody-positive systemic lupus erythematosus.

FDA will hold a symposium discussing the identification of concepts and terminology for multi-component biomarkers from March 23–24, 2022.