Manufacturing

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations will invest up to $384 million of additional funding, in addition to the $4 million it invested in March, to advance the clinical development of NVX-CoV2373, Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate.

Quartic.ai and Bright Path Laboratories have agreed to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered continuous manufacturing platform for APIs and other small-molecule drugs using Bright Path Labs’ continuous bioreactor and the Quartic.ai smart manufacturing technology.

CMO Evonik begins capacity expansion of APIs and intermediates at its sites in Dossenheim and Hanau Germany to increase EU supply security for drug products.

The center will be located at NJIT’s Life Sciences and Engineering center and will feature two good manufacturing practices suites that are expected to be completed and operational during the summer of 2020.

Remote, machine health monitoring services reduce the need for on-site visits.

Catalent will manufacture a mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine for clinical trials and potential commercialization.

Trial begins in the US for the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine; manufacturing plans announced.

The companies have entered into a manufacturing agreement to supply leronlimab, an investigational new drug currently being used in clinical trial protocols for COVID-19.

Will moving at “warp speed” to develop a vaccine impact efficacy or safety?

FDA’s EUA provides the first new treatment for COVID-19 patients with severe symptoms.

Equipment and process optimization must be considered for scaling up these developmental technologies to commercial production.

Many antibody-drug conjugate therapies are in the pipeline; however, only a handful have been approved. What are the bottlenecks?

Discovery of carcinogenic nitrosamines in three of the world’s most widely prescribed drugs is driving efforts to better detect, control and prevent their generation in APIs and finished drug products.

A well-defined contamination control program is essential to maintain quality through aseptic manufacture of parenteral drug products.

Bioprocessing advances improve product yield, cut costs, and streamline integration between upstream and downstream processes.

The ASTM standard describes how to evaluate single-use systems for foreign particle analysis.

Supplier of punches and dies to tablet producers, I Holland, has reported that it will be revisiting its webinar series, investigating best practices in tablet manufacture, for those currently working from home.

The new cell-line producing platform enables fully scalable production of high-performance adeno-associated virus vectors.

The goal of the collaboration is to manufacture up to one billion does per year of mRNA-1273, Moderna’s vaccine against the novel coronavirus.

Sartorius adds chromatography systems and resins, tangential flow filtration, and biomolecular characterization technologies.

Catalent and Johnson & Johnson announce joint investment and tech transfer to prepare for rapid scale-up and segregated cGMP commercial manufacturing capacity.

Solentim and ATUM will bundle together the Leap-In Transposase platform with the VIPS single cell cloning instrument for cell line development.

MilliporeSigma’s Bio4C Software Suite combines process control, analytics, and plant-level automation.

With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Batavia’s low-cost vaccine manufacturing process will be used to produce Wistar’s drug substance and drug product formulations, to be distributed to vaccine manufacturers.

NIH trial shows remdesivir accelerates recovery; Gilead study shows similar efficacy for 5- and 10-day dosing.

Merck will provide funding and will work with researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology to identify targets for therapeutic intervention and vaccine development.

A new strategic plan from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, details the institute’s plan for accelerating research to diagnose, prevent and treat COVID-19.

The vaccine will be based on a ReiThera-proprietary simian adenoviral vector with strong immunological potency and low pre-existing immunity in humans.

Emergent will offer up its drug substance manufacturing services with support by investments from Johnson & Johnson starting in 2020.

Wavelength Pharmaceuticals expanded production of APIs for certain pharmaceutical products needed to manage respiratory critical care patients in the COVID-19 pandemic.