Drug Development

Secarna Pharmaceuticals and Achilles Therapeutics have entered into an agreement to optimize the development of T cell therapies in Achilles’ pipeline.

CGT Catapult and Deep Science Ventures have partnered to encourage innovative approaches to overcoming barriers in delivering advance therapies to patients.

Sterling Pharma Solutions has announced a £10 million (US$13.5 million) investment into process development and manufacturing capacity at its site in Dudley, UK.

Pfizer’s PAXLOVID oral solid-dosage treatment is designed to combat SARS-CoV-2 in high-risk patients at the first sign of infection.

Under the expanded agreement with Agios, Centogene will provide global clinical trial support for thalassemia and sickle cell diseases.

Fujifilm is expanding its R&D footprint at its California facility.

Gernot Warnke, Head of R&D, JRS Pharma, spoke about excipients and how these relate to feeding in batch and continuous manufacturing.

Part 2—Industry experts from MilliporeSigma, Lonza, Astrea Bioseparations, and Sartorius provide insight and examples about solving critical challenges in both analytics and process development for emerging therapies.

Pfizer’s investigational oral antiviral COVID-19 candidate reduced COVID-19-related hospitalization or death by 89% in patients who received it within three days of symptom onset.

Part 1—Industry experts from MilliporeSigma, Lonza, Astrea Bioseparations, and Sartorius discuss key issues affecting the development of emerging biotherapies.

The agency found Lagevrio (molnupiravir) to be safe and effective at reducing the risk of death and hospitalization for those with mild to moderate COVID-19 infections.

Investing in formulation strategies earlier on in development will maximize the chance of success.

The researchers will use 3D printing to design novel flow reactors and static mixers.

Alternative drug delivery approaches are promising, but due to their complexity, they need to be sufficiently justified.

Advances in simulation and the development of digital twins.

SEDDS and SMEDDS improve solubility and permeability while expanding efficacy and applicability.

Novavax has filed its COVID-19 vaccine for authorization in the UK and Australia.

The $691 million deal will see Vertex use Mammoth’s systems to discover and develop in-vivo gene-editing therapies.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), FDA, and fifteen private organizations are partnering together to form the Bespoke Gene Therapy Consortium.

Ajinomoto and its subsidiary company, Ajinomoto Genexine, have partnered with Insilico Biotechnology to accelerate and improve process development and production of biologics using digital twin technology.

Spectrum Chemical scientists give a shout-out to 10 chemicals impacting quality of life in conjunction with National Chemistry Week.

Crystec and Biosidus have joined forces to enhance the delivery and performance of biotherapeutics.

Ferrer and Treeway, have entered into a license agreement for the development and commercialization of an oral formulation of edaravone (TW001/FNP122).

Knowledge management has gained increasing importance in the pharmaceutical industry over the past 10–15 years

In this collaboration, Takeda will utilize Poseida's biodegradable DNA and RNA nanoparticle delivery technology and other proprietary genetic engineering platforms for the research and development of gene therapies.