Pharmaceutical Technology Editors

Through the acquisition, Amgen will have access to Five Prime’s oncology portfolio, which includes bemarituzumab, Five Prime’s Phase-III ready anti-FGFR2b antibody.

Rokote Laboratories Finland, an academic spin-out located in Finland, is working to develop a nasal spray vaccine against COVID-19 based on research from the University of Helsinki and the University of Eastern Finland.

Heather N. Sugrue will serve as the company’s vice-president of Business Development.

Manufacturing of the vaccine will take place at Baxter’s fill/finish sterile manufacturing facilities located in Bloomington, IN.

Validation for SaaS LIMS, advance analytics, and cybersecurity features announced during Pittcon virtual press conference.

The European Medicines Agency has begun a rolling review based on laboratory and clinical studies of the Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac).

The European Medicines Agency and Health Canada have published clinical data used to support the authorization of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.

The agency is working to identify and obstruct scammers looking to profit from the pandemic.

The guidance document provides recommendations for reporting and implementing changes to container closure system components consisting of glass vials and stoppers for sterile drug products.

With funding from the federal government, Merck will expand capacity to produce J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine.

AstraZeneca has announced that the mass rollout of its COVID-19 vaccine has begun via the COVAX initiative.

Oxular has raised US $37 million in a financing round led by specialist life sciences investor, Forbion.

Arcline Investment Management has acquired ChargePoint Technology, strengthening its global presence.

A recent survey by SwedenBIO has demonstrated a major upswing in the Swedish life science industry.

EMA has recommended that Evrysdi be granted marketing authorization in the EU for the treatment of patients with certain types of SMA.

RDIF has announced that the Sputnik V vaccine for COVID-19 has been approved in Slovakia under the emergency use authorization procedure.

The EC has launched a structured dialogue aimed at gaining a better understanding of global medicines supply chains and to identify potential causes and drivers of vulnerabilities.

FDA moves recommended timeline for API and drug manufacturers to assess impurity risks to March 31, 2021.

Under the terms of the acquisition, OXGENE will become a fully owned subsidiary of WuXi Advanced Therapies, WuXi AppTec’s cell and gene therapy contract testing, development, and manufacturing organization business unit.

Takeda is divesting the products because they are outside of Takeda’s current business focus, which includes gastroenterology, rare diseases, plasma-derived therapies, oncology, and neuroscience.

The company has completed the expansion of its laboratory facilities to accommodate the development of APIs.

Starlab concluded that labs can expect a rise in demand for materials in the liquid handling field in 2021 due to 2020’s increased materials consumption and limited availability of liquid handling materials because of COVID-19.

The companies intend to design and implement algorithms for the early stages of research for drug discovery and development of drug candidates to treat Alzheimer’s disease.

The acquisition strategically expands SPT Labtech’s offering in sample management for life sciences.

The benchtop device provides a sample preparation tool for labs in need of solvent removal directly from liquid chromatography vials or concentration of multiple samples from extraction or fractionation processes.

The solution eases the problem of analyte/metal surface interactions when analyzing organic acids, organophosphates, oligonucleotides, phosphopeptides, acidic glycans, and phospholipids by reverse-phase and hydrophilic interaction chromatography.

The new ultra-sensitive second-generation micro-chip technology is a key enabler in advanced single-cell proteomics workflow.

Distribution of the first one-dose vaccine for COVID-19 to start in early March.

Through the partnership, Seven Bridges will centralize and manage terabytes of raw and processed scRNASeq data using its cloud-based bioinformatic analysis platform while working to expand Pfizer’s cloud platforms and capabilities.

Currently, the facility manufactures products for oral diabetes treatment and will be expanded to increase capacity for these products.