Bio/Pharma News

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.

Eisai’s Alzheimer’s treatment, Leqembi (lecanemab-irmb), received approval from FDA via the Accelerated Approval pathway.

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

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.

TreeFrog Therapeutics is leaping ahead in cell therapies through resources such as new technologies and investor partnerships.

FDA has announced that bebtelovimab is not currently authorized for emergency use in any region of the US.

Sosei Heptares and Eli Lilly have entered a multi-target collaboration and license agreement in diabetes and metabolic diseases.

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.

Catalent is set to expand its biologics analytical services with its new facility in Durham, NC.

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.

Generate Biomedicines published a preprint describing technology that can generate novel proteins towards desired functional or other properties.

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

The R&D analytical solutions will consist of analytical lab services that use USP’s in-house scientific expertise and state-of-the-art facilities at the USP Advanced Manufacturing Technology Lab in Richmond and the USP headquarters facility in Rockville, Md.

Ferring Pharmaceuticals’ Rebyota was approved for the prevention of recurrence of Clostridioides difficile infection.

In addition, personnel, equipment, and facilities from the acquired companies will expand Reaction Biology’s presence in Germany while enabling its global customers to leverage Bioassay’s expansive portfolio of regulated clinical and commercial services.

Results from Eisai and Biogen’s Alzheimer's treatment, lecanemab, indicated significantly slowed cognitive decline in patients relative to placebo.

Merck will use BigHat’s AI/machine learning-enabled platform to design candidates for up to three drug discovery programs.

AstraZeneca inked a deal worth up to $320 million to purchase Neogene Therapeutics, a biotech start-up focused on T-cell receptor therapies.

The agreement will see Immutep and Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany jointly fund the INSIGHT-005 study.

The decision to move forward in Phase III development stems from the threat of resistance to current malaria treatment growth.

SPX-001, a respiratory drug candidate, will be submitted through a combined Clinical Trial and Ethics Committee application for further advancement in the clinical stages.

CSL’s Hemgenix (etranacogene dezaparvovec) will cost approximately $3.5 million, making it the most expensive single-use medicine in the United States.

Merck will purchase Imago BioSciences, a biotechnology company focused on bone marrow disorders, for approximately $1.35 billion.

The agreement aims to develop integrated technology for large-scale exosome production.