Pharmaceutical Technology Editors

eTheRNA Immunotherapies has entered into a strategic cooperation and product license agreement with China Grand Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Holdings to form a new joint venture company, Nanjong AuroRNA Biotech.

MHRA has granted a temporary authorization for emergency use to Pfizer and BioNTech for the mRNA vaccine against COVID-19.

CGT Catapult has launched the Advanced Therapies Skills Training Network, designed to open career opportunities and upskill staff in advanced therapy and vaccine manufacturing in the UK.

The expansion of the companies’ partnership will integrate lead optimization efforts to advance cancer immune therapy drug discovery.

Made up of Bio-Rad’s validated flow antibodies, the dyes offer maximal brightness and improved resolution of populations and low-density antigens for simple integration into multiplex panels.

The system gives R&D formulation chemists the ability to manufacture new formulations sooner, while allowing manufacturing teams to supply reliable batches of new drug products for commercial sale in an automated and compliant manner.

Dolomite Microfluidics and MilliporeSigma have begun a collaboration to release off-the-shelf microfluidic device kits for the fabrication of PLGA particles.

The new powerful, precise, and compact instrument can be retrofitted for point-of-care clinical testing at urgent care facilities, hospitals, or physicians’ offices.

The expansion will include new suites for the development and clinical manufacturing of drug product intermediates and drug products and cGMP suites for early-phase cGMP manufacture.

The virtual assessments will address problems, issues, and questions customers have about their environments and operations.

Originally announced in March 2020, the acquired facility will be Bora’s first North American manufacturing facility and will serve as its North American headquarters.

The added space will house a portion of its PVC, polyurethane, silicone, and additional plastic tubing products, as well as its AdvantaPure products.

Behzad Mahdavi, PhD, will join a team of experts in the company’s Science and Technology Group to fast-track the adoption of new development and drug delivery technologies and manufacturing processes and techniques.

The expansion is part of a new expansion initiative aimed at increasing flexibility, efficiency, and cost-effective production.

The companies have entered into a global collaboration and license agreement to develop zuranolone (SAGE-217) for major depressive disorder, postpartum depression (PPD), and SAGE-324 for essential tremor and other neurological disorders.

FDA granted fast track designation for AB201, a small recombinant protein that is a potent, selective inhibitor of tissue factor, for the potential treatment of COVID-19.

The EC’s approval was based on positive results from a Phase III clinical trial that demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in patients compared to chemotherapy.

Wacker will support production of CureVac’s COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccine candidate at its biotech site in Amsterdam, with production scheduled to start in the first half of 2021.

The acquisition gives Merck a new Phase III COVID-19 therapeutic candidate, CD24Fc, a fusion protein that targets the innate immune system, in its pipeline.

The companies have entered into an agreement for the technology transfer and clinical manufacturing of Mustang’s MB-107 lentiviral gene therapy program for the treatment of X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency, also known as bubble boy disease, in Europe.

The expansion will include a new 25,000-ft2 warehouse, a filling line for flexible plastic containers, a high-speed automated syringe fill line with the ability to fill up to 600 units per minute, and a high-speed automated visual inspection line.

The EC’s approval comes after positive results from seven Phase II and III randomized, active-controlled, multi-center studies.

HMA and EMA have released a joint statement on the appropriate route for companies to submit marketing authorization applications and the approval processes for vaccines.

EMA has requested the full data from the Solidarity trial in order to evaluate the marketing authorization of Veklury (remdesivir) in the European Union.

Diurnal Group has been granted a patent for its hydrocortisone granules in capsules for opening, Alkindi, from the European Patent Office.

The new super plant, being built in Incheon, South Korea, will have a total biopharmaceutical manufacturing capacity of 256,000 L.

The companies have formed a long-term manufacturing agreement to accelerate the global supply for Lilly’s COVID-19 antibody therapeutics.

The agreement follows a recent announcement that Sartorius plans to invest $100 million in Songdo, South Korea’s bio cluster.

The agreement will allow Roche to use CEVEC’s proprietary ELEVECTA technology, which is designed to enable fully scalable, high-performance AAV vector production in suspension bioprocesses.

The partners have established PathoQuest, Inc., a US subsidiary, and will construct an NGS-based testing lab at Charles River’s Wayne, PA, site.