Ingredients

Dow’s portfolio of solutions for pharmaceutical applications now includes products from Dow Corning’s silicone technology platform.

Samsung BioLogics’ second facility adds 152,000 L of mAb drug substance capacity.

The committee has voted unanimously to approve Spark Therapeutics’ gene therapy candidate, Luxturna (voretigene neparvovec), for treating a genetically inherited blindness.

The companies have entered into a strategic collaboration to establish a new cell therapy and regenerative medicine manufacturing platform, which includes a new manufacturing facility in Belgium.

BARDA has entered a $12-million contract with biopharmaceutical firm Achaogen for the late-stage development of an antibiotic against resistant bacteria, and as a potential treatment for biowarfare agents.

Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Sciences Ireland UC will invest more than EUR 300 million (US$355 million) to expand manufacturing capacity for biologic medicines at its Ireland facility.

Compared to traditional drug discovery approaches, drug repurposing, repositioning, and rescue can be faster and cheaper.

Indena is completing the construction of a new GMP kilolab for highly potent APIs.

Sartorius begins building a new, EUR 30-million (US$35.2 million) Cell Culture Technology Center in Ulm, Germany.

CDMOs have established strategies for handling new chemical entities with unknown biological activity.

Omya will be presenting its functionalized calcium carbonate for several applications at the show.

Solid state solutions provider Holodiag and fine chemical R&D provider Holochem join forces.

Additional reactor capacity and a wastewater processing plant increase API manufacturing capacity at the Cambrex site in Kalskoga, Sweden.

ADC Bio announces plans to expand into clinical and commercial drug manufacturing for ADCs.

BASF will build a new specialty amines plant at its existing wholly owned site in Nanjing Chemical Industry Park in China.

Ajinomoto Althea opens manufacturing suites in new high potency and antibody drug conjugate commercial facility.

Modeling tools help process engineers optimize a biopharmaceutical facility’s capacity.

Drug repurposing, repositioning, and rescue can be faster, cheaper, and target more diseases than traditional drug discovery approaches.

Innovative new technologies released over the past several months seek to enhance bio/pharmaceutical development and manufacturing. 

The private investment firm’s $110-million acquisition boosts its API and finished dosage form value chain.

Cambrex is investing $24 Million in new, highly potent API manufacturing capacity at its Charles City, Iowa site.

Featuring software, parallel automated reactors, and other tools designed to facilitate design of experiments, development of the design space, and better process understanding and control, the Hyderabad facility came online on July 20

The addition of 20,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing and office space increases Avecia’s Milford, Ma, oligonucleotide capacity to 3.0 mol.

Cannabinoids have potential to treat a variety of diseases, but pharmaceutical companies must first develop cost-effective ways to access pharmaceutically pure materials without marijuana cultivation.

A Supreme Court decision and improvements in analytical processes may speed the biosimilar approval process.