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Moderna to Select Site in Africa for $500 Million mRNA Facility
Moderna’s new facility is expected to produce 500 million vaccine doses per year.
FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization for OTC COVID-19 Test
FDA’s emergency use authorization will double rapid at-home COVID-19 testing capacity.
NIIMBL Invests $3 Million in Six Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Products
The $3 million investment will go towards various projects investigating key product attributes for therapeutic proteins.
EMA Approves Manufacturing Site for Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine
The agency’s human medicines committee approved an additional site in West Point, Pa. in the United States for the manufacture of Janssen’s COVID-19 vaccine.
EMA Recommends Boosters of Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines for Some Individuals
The agency has concluded that an extra dose of the COVID-19 vaccines may be given to those individuals with severely weakened immune systems.
Application for COVID-19 Treatment Submitted to EMA
The agency received a marketing authorization application a monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19 patients.
MilliporeSigma Launches Excipient Platform for Protein-Based Therapies
New excipients for protein-based drug products reduce viscosity while maintaining protein stability.
Moderna Opens New Science Center in Cambridge, MA
Moderna’s new 462,000-ft² science center is expected to be completed by 2023.
Sunovion, Sumitomo Dainippon, and Otsuka Enter Development and Commercialization Collaboration
The collaboration between Sunovion, Sumitomo Dainippon, and Otsuka will focus on four compounds designed to treat neuropsychiatric health conditions.
Luas Diagnostics Partners with Bond Digital Health to Launch Enhanced COVID-19 Immunity Test
The test developed by Luas Diagnostics and Bond Digital uses a smartphone app to enhance a 15-minute COVID-19 immunity test.
Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics’ Oral Antiviral COVID-19 Treatment Reduces Risk of Hospitalization or Death by 50%
Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics' oral antiviral medication reduced the risk of hospitalization or death from COVID-19 by 50% relative to placebo in a Phase III clinical study.
Certara Completes Acquisition of Pinnacle 21
Certara’s acquisition of Pinnacle 21 grants them access to their compliance validation software.
Selecta Biosciences and Takeda Announce Gene Therapy Platform Licensing Agreement
Takeda will use Selecta Bioscience’s ImmTOR platform to develop gene therapies for lysosomal storage disorders.
“Waive Vaccine Patents” is Projected onto Hotel Hosting UK’s Annual Conservative Conference
Vaccine access campaigners have projected a request to waive vaccine patents onto the hotel where the annual conservative party conference is being held.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Opens Biologics Manufacturing Site in Lengnau, Switzerland
Thermo Fisher’s new Swiss facility will initially produce CSL Limited’s recombinant factor IX product Idelvion.
SGS Completes Expansion of Bioanalytical Testing Laboratory in France
The expansion to SGS’s Poitiers facility in France is expected to improve the company’s drug development capabilities.
Considering Bio/Pharma Reformulation Strategies
Reformulation strategies are useful tools for more than just stretching out the potential return on investment for a product.
New Beginnings
Change of roster does not change the goal line. We are all patients first.
DRI Healthcare Acquires Rosacea Treatment for $46.4 Million
DRI’s subsidiary has acquired a royalty interest in Oracea (doxycycline) for $46.4 million.
Antiviral Oral Medicine Emerges as Potential COVID-19 Treatment and Companies Make Strategic Alliance
Appili Therapeutics and AiPharma Global Holdings announced a strategic alliance to advance the global development of a broad-spectrum antiviral treatment in oral tablet form for the treatment of COVID-19.
FDA to Rely on Real World Data and Evidence for Future Research and Market Approvals
FDA and EMA are looking to tap real-world data and real-world evidence more broadly to accelerate the research and market approval process.
AstraZeneca Acquires Caelum Biosciences
AstraZeneca’s acquisition of Caelum Biosciences gives them access to CAEL-101, a promising light chain amyloidosis treatment.
Pure Extracts and Psyence Form Joint Venture Corporation Pure Psyence
Pure Psyence, Pure Extracts and Psyence’s joint venture company, will develop psilocybin-derived treatments.
Merck Acquires Acceleron for $11.5 Billion
Merck’s 11.5 billion acquisition of Acceleron gives them access to their lead therapeutic candidate, sotatercept.
REGEN-COV Shows Promising Results in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients
Rengeron’s trial found that REGEN-COV significantly reduced viral load of patients with COVID-19.
Novartis and MMV Report Positive Results for Next-Generation Antimalarial Therapy
Novartis and Medicines for Malaria Venture have reported positive results from the Phase IIb study, evaluating a new non-artemisinin combination to treat uncomplicated malaria in children.
Three-Year Data Demonstrates Further Evidence for Dovato as a Switch Option for HIV
ViiV Healthcare has presented three-year clinical trial, reinforcing that the two-drug regimen Dovato can be used as a viable switch option for people living with HIV.
CHMP Performs Accelerated Assessment of Booster Dose of Spikevax
EMA's CHMP is going to perform an accelerated assessment of data submitted by Moderna regarding the use of a booster dose of Spikevax.
EMA’s Innovation Task Force Will Provide Support for Developers to Minimize Animal Testing
EMA is providing support via its Innovation Task Force (ITF) for developers to help them reduce, replace, and refine animal use in drug development.
Codex DNA Aims to Accelerate Virus Research with Full-Length Synthetic Genome for SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant
In September, Codex DNA released a full-length synthetic genome for the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant, which may accelerate discovery and development of diagnostics and treatments for COVID-19.