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The collaboration will combine fully automated and digitalized technologies to reduce CGT manufacturing timelines to 2.5 days.

Pharmaceutical Technology® sat down with Stefan Verheyden, Global Vice President Sales Pharma & Biopharma Solutions Injectables at Gerresheimer, to talk about the primary and secondary packaging solutions Gerresheimer and Bormioli Pharma will be showcasing at Pharmapack Europe 2025 in Paris, France from January 22–23.

Cytiva will combine its CGT manufacturing technologies with Cellular Origins' robotic manufacturing platform.

The company will be featuring its sustainable packaging solutions at the event in Paris on Jan. 22–23, 2025.

The two companies will be exhibiting together after Gerresheimer’s December 2024 acquisition of Bormioli.

Production is set to take place at Samsung Biologics’ Songdo, South Korea, site, and the agreement will run through December 2030, subject to change.

Lonza will work with Iconovo to develop spray-dried formulations for an intranasally delivered biologic using a reformulated biologic drug candidate for obesity.

Through this global alliance, PackGene, Weill Cornell Medicine, and GC4K, an Australian non-profit, intend to deliver a custom-tailored gene therapy solution to treat hereditary spastic paraplegia type 56, a particularly rare neurological disease.

The launch of Roche's cobas mass spectrometry solution will bring fully automated mass spec analysis to the clinical lab.

Scinai Bioservices Inc. has been established in Delaware as the company's new US-based subsidiary, which will serve biotech companies in early stage drug development.

Novo Nordisk will use the DKK 8.5 billion (US$1.2 billion) to build a new modular and flexible production facility in Odense, Denmark, that will produce multiple products for rare diseases.

The company will be showcasing its injection blow molded bottles and five-layer blown film at the packaging event in Paris on Jan. 22–23, 2025.

The partners will aim to establish a platform that enables rapid development of DPI products.

The European Commission has approved Novo Holdings' acquisition of Catalent, which includes the related sale of three manufacturing sites to Novo Nordisk, which is also acquiring the Czech Republic manufacturing site of Novavax for $200 million.

Through the agreement, Cambrex will provide accelerated access to clinical development capabilities to Lilly’s biotech collaborators.

EXO Biologics and ExoXpert, an EXO Biologics subsidiary, have received GMP certification of a European manufacturing facility for exosomes and have successfully loaded mRNA and DNA payloads into GMP-grade exosomes for drug delivery.

With its new offering, Lonza can tailor services to support smart capsule companies with its bi-layer capsule manufacturing technology.

Through this acquisition, the German CDMO expands its global network and adds aseptic fill/finish and lyophilization expertise to its sterile manufacturing capabilities.

The Thousand Oaks, Calif., cell therapy manufacturing facility now houses new production suites, updated development labs, and more after expansion.

The $3.6 million investment will allow the CDMO to boost its advanced labeling, automated visual inspection, and fill/finish capabilities.

The company has expanded its early and late phase analytical capabilities by including GMP cell-based potency assays at its sites in Cambridge, UK, and San Diego, Calif.

Located in German, Italy, and Lithuania, the new European facilities will specialize in drug discovery and R&D services.

SEKISUI has used a £15.7 million (US$20.7 million) investment to expand its clinical-grade drug substance manufacturing at its UK site.

Financing from OrbiMed, Novo Holdings, Jeito Capital, and others will enable Alentis Therapeutics to advance its pipeline of Claudin-1-targeted ADCs for treating solid tumors.

Frontier Scientific Solutions has unveiled plans to use a $1.5 billion commitment from a major investor to create a global free trade zone gateway to facilitate the life sciences supply chain using Wilmington International Airport in North Carolina.

Avantor's newly launched expanded Innovation Center in Bridgewater, NJ, is designed for integrated workflows and features purpose-built collaboration spaces.

Executives at Avantor talk about the future of the biopharmaceutical industry and the anticipated impact that a wave of next-generation biotherapeutics will bring.

Under an ongoing partnership with Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, Ginkgo Bioworks has achieved the first milestone in a project aimed at improving biologics production.

Manufacturers of five autologous or matched allogenic cell therapy products have selected TrakCel's IT platform, OCELLOS, to orchestrate the administration of these therapies, which are approved or expected to be approved in 2024.

Ascend is partnering with EW Healthcare Partners to expand capabilities in the United States.