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AMRI’s acquisition of Euticals expands its API development and manufacturing business.

AMRI Adds Custom API Capabilities

Randi Hernandez was science editor at Pharmaceutical Technology from September 2014 to May 2017.

*Updated May 11, 2016Following JHL Biotech’s opening of a FlexFactory flexible manufacturing facility in Hsinchu, Taiwan in 2014, the company opened a second manufacturing location in Wuhan, China on May 10, 2016. According to the company, with the addition of the new Wuhan facility, JHL Biotech will now hold the largest volume of single-use cell-culture capacity in all of Asia.

JHL Biotech Opens New Single-Use Biopharmaceutical Facility in China

Takeda received a $38 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop, license, and supply Sabin-strain inactivated poliovirus to more than 70 developing countries.

Takeda Receives Grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The GPhA and its Biosimilars Council expressed concern about the new proposed value-based reimbursement rules for Part B medications.

Biosimilars Council Says New Reimbursement Rules Will Hurt Competition in the Biosimilars Market

Under the terms of an agreement with Pfizer, WAVE will advance up to five programs from discovery through the selection of clinical candidates.

WAVE and Pfizer to Collaborate on the Development of Nucleic Acid Therapies

MilliporeSigma expands its Carlsbad, California-based GMP capacity for viral and gene-therapy products by nearly 90%.

MilliporeSigma Expands California GMP Facility

The collaborations have the goal of creating new tools that will help predict how people with Type 2 diabetes adhere to their medication.

Sanofi Collaborates with Duke University and Massachusetts General Hospital

EMD Serono, the North American biopharmaceutical business of Germany’s Merck KGaA, will expand its R&D facility in Massachusetts, US.

EMD Serono Expands Biopharma R&D Facility

The agency recommends the approval of Zavicefta to treat infections caused by resistant bacteria.

EMA Approves Antimicrobial Resistance Drug

MSD joined the WHO campaign in Africa, which is focused on staying polio free.

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