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The extension of the company’s product offerings to include the anti-certolizumab pegol antibodies offers critical reagents for the development of assays for TNF alpha inhibitor biologics and their biosimilars.

The companies have entered into a manufacturing agreement to supply leronlimab, an investigational new drug currently being used in clinical trial protocols for COVID-19.

Kindeva Drug Delivery plans capital investment and jobs growth.

FDA approved hydroxychloroquine sulfate for emergency use as a treatment for some hospitalized patients with COVID-19.

Fujifilm allocates production volumes for COVID-19 treatments in 2021 at its Denmark facility.

Congressional leaders are developing the next version of the 21st Century Cures Act, including provisions to advance research related to the COVID-19 crisis as part of initiatives for bringing innovative therapies to market faster.

Policy makers seek to ensure supplies of new therapies and to limit shortages.

Will moving at “warp speed” to develop a vaccine impact efficacy or safety?

Having a better understanding about compliance will be of benefit when looking for a job or for furthering one’s career, says Siegfried Schmitt, PhD, vice-president, technical, Parexel Consulting.

In light of the hype around chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as potential COVID-19 treatments, it is important to remember that drug repurposing should never be rushed, irrespective of the urgency of the situation.

FDA’s EUA provides the first new treatment for COVID-19 patients with severe symptoms.

The ASTM standard describes how to evaluate single-use systems for foreign particle analysis.

Supplier of punches and dies to tablet producers, I Holland, has reported that it will be revisiting its webinar series, investigating best practices in tablet manufacture, for those currently working from home.

The new cell-line producing platform enables fully scalable production of high-performance adeno-associated virus vectors.

The goal of the collaboration is to manufacture up to one billion does per year of mRNA-1273, Moderna’s vaccine against the novel coronavirus.

Sartorius adds chromatography systems and resins, tangential flow filtration, and biomolecular characterization technologies.

Manja Boerman tapped as president of Cell & Gene Therapy for Catalent with retirement of Pete Buzy.

Private equity firm, Ampersand Capital Partners, has made a majority investment into contract packaging organization (CPO), Tjoapack.

Catalent and Johnson & Johnson announce joint investment and tech transfer to prepare for rapid scale-up and segregated cGMP commercial manufacturing capacity.

The Cambridge Design Partnership and the Stevanato Group have announced a partnership that will see the development of a new pen-injector based on the Axis-D technology and IP licensed from Haselmeier in 2019.

ILC Therapeutics, a biotech company based in the United Kingdom, has discovered two separate novel treatments for patients suffering with COVID-19 prior to needing ventilators.

AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford have announced that they will collaborate on the global development and distribution of the university’s potential recombinant adenovirus vaccine aimed at preventing COVID-19 infection.

Solentim and ATUM will bundle together the Leap-In Transposase platform with the VIPS single cell cloning instrument for cell line development.

The new printers contain integrated PTLab software and can print directly onto slides and cassettes, eliminating handwritten mistakes and expensive labels.

MilliporeSigma’s Bio4C Software Suite combines process control, analytics, and plant-level automation.

With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Batavia’s low-cost vaccine manufacturing process will be used to produce Wistar’s drug substance and drug product formulations, to be distributed to vaccine manufacturers.

The event will be rescheduled for April 20–22, 2021 at the Javits Center in New York City.

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A comprehensive turnkey system based on LabVantage’s laboratory information management system platform allows laboratories to implement COVID-19 biobanking, testing, and research.

The approval was based on pharmacokinetic data, the relationship of exposure to efficacy, and the relationship of exposure to safety.