Bio/Pharma Business

The restraint to not target solely the major disease groups has provided good proportion and balance for our industry.

Pharmapack Europe experts expect smaller and medium European packaging companies to grow or be acquired.

AstraZeneca and Thermo Fisher will collaborate to develop a solid tissue and blood-based companion diagnostic test for osimertinib.

Scientific Laboratory Supplies’ acquisition of C&M will bolster the company’s scientific calibration, maintenance, and validation offerings.

deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, will whole-genome sequence 35,000 African-American samples provided by Illumina and Nashville Biosciences.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a Notice of Allowance for Zika vaccine patent to GeoVax.

Takeda will pay approximately $400 million upfront for the exclusive worldwide rights to Hutchmed’s fruquintinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, outside of China.

Pfizer and Gero have partnered to discover potential therapeutic targets for fibrotic diseases using machine learning technology.

The collaboration between AbbVie and Anima Biotech will combine Anima's mRNA Lightning technology platform with AbbVie's extensive expertise in oncology and immunology.

The definitive agreement will give AstraZeneca global rights to CinCor’s portfolio of cardiorenal disease treatments.

Chiesi will acquire Amryt Pharma, a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company, in a deal worth up to $1.47 billion.

Ipsen’s $952 million acquisition of Albireo is designed to bolster the company's rare disease portfolio.

Sartorius and RoosterBio will work together to address purification challenges and establish scalable downstream manufacturing processes for exosome-based therapies.

The collaboration will see Moderna and CytomX work together to develop mRNA-based conditionally activated therapeutics.

Astrea Bioseparations has acquired Delta Precision, a manufacturer of chromatography columns for biomanufacturing.

Avantor and Catalent have entered into a multi-year supply and services agreement.

Agilent’s acquisition of Avida grants them access to high-performance enrichment workflows that enable NGS approaches for studying cancer.

Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, will pay Kelun-Biotech up to $9l3 billion for seven early-stage oncology treatments.

Cautiously setting aside pandemic practices, pharma workers appear ready for flux, change, evolution, and expanding molecular diversity.

Experts weigh in on trends in the biotechnology market, psychedelics, and India.

Coverage of COVID-19 vaccines was surprisingly displaced by this year’s astounding oncology and iconoclastic gene therapy “cures.”

Cell and gene therapies is unequivocally viewed as the biggest opportunity in the bio/pharma space.

GSK and Wave Life Sciences have entered into a collaboration to drive drug discovery and development for novel genetic targets.

AbCellera and Rallybio are teaming up to discover, develop, and commercialize novel antibody-based therapeutics for rare diseases.

Under the collaboration between Vertex and Entrada, the companies will work on discovering and developing intracellular endosomal escape vehicle therapeutics for myotonic dystrophy type 1.

Amgen’s $27.8 billion acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics, an Irish biotechnology company, is one of the largest of 2022.

Takeda will purchase the rights to Nimbus Pharmaceuticals candidate, NDI-034858, which is currently being evaluated for treating multiple autoimmune diseases.

PictorLabs, a digital pathology company developing an AI-powered virtual staining platform, formally announced its launch at the start of December.

Overall industry growth conceals growing numbers of smaller, faster-paced, adaptable corporate structures.

mRNA may not be a train we necessarily all need to get onboard immediately, but we should know where the central train station is located, and what it connects us to.