APIs and Excipients

AstraZeneca’s acquisition of Gracell includes a clinical-stage autologous cell therapy targeting hematologic malignancies and autoimmune diseases and a proprietary manufacturing platform.

Buffers, stabilizers, and cryoprotectants play major roles in cell therapy formulations.

Bristol Myers Squibb and SystImmune plan to co-develop and co-commercialize lead ADC candidate for cancer treatment in US.

Exagamglogene autotemcel seen as synechdoche.

Under this multi-year collaboration, Genentech and NVIDIA will use AI to optimize and accelerate each company’s platforms to discover and develop innovative therapeutics.

In this episode of Drug Digest, Pharmaceutical Technology’s European/Senior Editor, Felicity Thomas, chats about the biggest trends impacting oral and topical drug delivery and how these trends are impacting the excipient sector with Nick DiFranco and Ashley Rezak from Lubrizol Life Science Health.

In part two of an interview with Thomas Langenickel, MD, chief medical officer at Ethris, Langenickel highlights the challenges in developing mRNA therapeutics for pulmonary diseases.

Andy Geall, co-founder and chief development officer at Replicate Bioscience continues the discussion on the development history of mRNA therapeutics.

Twist Bioscience now offers its Express Genes rapid gene synthesis service at its Wilsonville, Ore., manufacturing facility.

Novartis and Legend Biotech seek to advance certain CAR-T cell therapy candidates targeting Delta-like ligand protein 3.

A discussion with Thomas Langenickel, MD, chief medical officer at Ethris, shines a light on how advances made with mRNA technology are also advancing the industry’s ability to focus on treatment of rare diseases, such as rare lung diseases.

Matthew Lauber, senior director—Cell and Gene Therapy, Consumables & Lab Automation, at Waters Corporation highlights how current technologies are enabling oligonucleotide development.

Matthew Lauber, senior director—Cell and Gene Therapy, Consumables & Lab Automation, at Waters Corporation, considers that status of oligonucleotides on the market.

Matthew Lauber, senior director—Cell and Gene Therapy, Consumables & Lab Automation, at Waters Corporation discusses the analytical and downstream purification challenges of oligonucleotides.

The Alliance for mRNA Medicines (AMM) was officially launched at the 11th International mRNA Health Conference in Berlin, Germany.

As part of a $30 million investment, Aragen is setting up a new biologics manufacturing facility in Bangalore, India.

Sara Fathollahi, PhD, product application specialist at DFE Pharma, makes the case of how excipient suppliers can support the transition from batch to continuous manufacturing.

Pharmaceutical Technology Europe® spoke with Dr. Rainer Schmidt from Galvita AG, an excipient manufacturer based in Switzerland, at the inaugural Start-Up Market on the show floor at CPHI Barcelona 2023.

Spark Therapeutics and SpliceBio have formed a collaboration to develop a gene therapy that can treat an inherited retinal disease.

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has partnered with Forge Biologics, which will manufacture AAVs to help accelerate gene therapy programs in California.

Sander Van Gessel, MEng, Business Unit Director, DFE Pharma, discusses the important components of nitrosamine impurities from a manufacturing point of view as a part of his session, "Reducing Nitrosamines Without the Use of Scavengers: The Critical Role of Excipients - An Excipient Manufacturer's View."

Sander Van Gessel, MEng, Business Unit Director, DFE Pharma, discusses the recent findings of nitrosamine impurities in human drugs as a part of his session, "Reducing Nitrosamines Without the Use of Scavengers: The Critical Role of Excipients - An Excipient Manufacturer's View."

All members of the pharmaceutical supply chain must implement reliable sourcing and manufacturing strategies that balance quality and costs to ensure the uninterrupted supply of high-quality medicines to patients worldwide.

A new generation of interactive formulation development platforms can leave trial and error in the formulation process in the past.

Under an expanded agreement, Cellares will provide proof-of-concept manufacturing for a second CAR-T cell therapy from Bristol Myers Squibb.

Salipro Biotech and Icosagen have entered into a multi-target collaboration to discover and characterize monoclonal antibodies.

Roche will gain exclusive worldwide rights to develop, manufacture, and commercialize Ionis’ investigational RNA-based therapeutic candidates for Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease.

Eli Lilly and Company has received a complete response letter from FDA for its anti-dermatitis biologic therapeutic, lebrikizumab.

Twin-screw granulation process insight is growing as researchers employ new analytical technologies and investigate new ways to use the equipment.

Sustainability advances are being made, but more investment is needed.