Formulation and Drug Delivery

The company’s oral COVID-19 vaccine has been chosen to participate in a non-human primate challenge study organized and funded by Operation Warp Speed.

The test results could potentially be used in the development of COVID-19 vaccines and the screening of convalescent plasma for prophylactic and therapeutic use.

Catalent will offer vial filling, packaging capacity, and additional staffing at the site to support the production of the initial 100 million doses of the vaccine candidate to supply the US market beginning in the third quarter of 2020.

The company has expanded its laboratory test portfolio with five new molecular, serology, and functional assays for COVID-19 vaccine and therapy development programs.

Symbiosis Pharmaceutical Services has signed a supply agreement with AstraZeneca for the sterile manufacture of AZD1222, a COVID-19 recombinant adenovirus vaccine, to be used in clinical trials.

Inovio received a $71-million contract from the US Department of Defense to scale up manufacture of its Cellectra smart device to deliver its DNA vaccine.

The companies are expanding their existing collaboration and license agreement to develop mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases.

The company will invest EUR 610 million (USD$682 million) into a new vaccine production site and research center in France.

Valneva will manufacture the Sabin vaccine strains for clinical trials in its manufacturing facility in Solna, Sweden, using Batavia’s process.

Catalent will provide vial filling and packaging capacity to AstraZeneca at its manufacturing facility in Anagni, Italy, for the large-scale commercial manufacturing of the University of Oxford’s adenovirus vector-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate.

Oxford Biomedica, has signed a collaboration agreement with the not-for-profit organization, the Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre, to provide the UK with its first strategic vaccine development and advanced manufacturing capability.

The candidates will be used by the Vaccine Research Center, part of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.

The companies have entered into a development and manufacturing agreement for Anthos Therapeutics’ abelacimab for treating thrombotic disorders.

Catalent will use its GPEx cell line development technology to create a cell line expressing the recombinant VLP at its Madison, WI facility.

Novavax announces DoD contract to produce 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine candidate.

The European Commission is pledging EUR 300 million (US$339 million) to Gavi for vaccines for infectious diseases, in addition to an earlier pledge of more than EUR 1.5 billion (US$1.7 billion) made on May 4, 2020.

The European Commission has granted marketing authorization to the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson for Darzalex (daratumumab) subcutaneous formulation to treat adults with multiple myeloma.

CordenPharma announces expansion of lipid excipients supply for coronavirus vaccine scale up.

The investment will give the company the opportunity to accelerate the development of proprietary boron-10 target drugs while it develops its neutron beam accelerator technology for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy.

The new vaccine would be made with a Newcastle disease virus vector that expresses the immunogenic spike protein of SARS-CoV-2

The Gavi advance market commitment for COVID-19 vaccines is a new financing instrument aimed at incentivizing vaccine manufacturers to produce sufficient and affordable quantities of COVID-19 vaccines.

FDA and the US Congress support innovation and access to cheaper medicines.

The correct mix of excipients is crucial to the success of fast dissolving/orally disintegrating dosage forms.

Increasing prevalence of drug misuse and abuse is driving a heightened and more stringent approach to abuse-deterrent formulations.

Connected delivery solutions can provide value to industry and patients, through improved medication adherence and outcome optimization.