Bio/Pharma Business

The Japanese biotech company plans to make good use of Orchard’s portfolio, furthering its goal of providing life-changing medical care through cell and gene therapy.

The newly established business under Advent International and Warburg Pincus will be named Simtra BioPharma Solutions.

Under the partnership, Sartorius will leverage SPARTA Biodiscovery’s technology to accelerate development of nanoparticles used for drug delivery.

The contract is part of US Department of Health and Human Services’ ‘Project NextGen’ initiative, aimed at pushing forward new and stronger COVID-19 vaccines and therapies.

With the two new GMP-grade mRNA manufacturing sites in Germany, MilliporeSigma can now offer fully integrated mRNA services.

Novo Nordisk’s obesity treatment has been so successful the company is now top of the ‘value pile’ in Europe.

The collaboration will provide easy access and transfer between data in Torx and CDD Vault, upping the efficiency of the small-molecule discovery process.

Under a new pact, Genentech and PeptiDream will collaborate to discover and develop novel peptide-radioisotope drug conjugates.

The AstraZeneca rare disease group hopes to use these new gene therapy programs to bolster its work on genomic medicine.

Under the collaboration, Orionis will receive $47 million upfront to leverage its Allo-Glue platform to discover small-molecule monovalent glues.

CN Bio and LifeNet Health LifeSciences have teamed up to provide direct access to a portfolio of highly characterized hepatic cells for the creation of advanced liver-on-a-chip assays.

Illumina’s new solutions center in Bengaluru, India, will expand access to genomics in the country.

Optibrium announced on Aug. 31, 2023 the acquisition of BioPharmics to further expand the 3D drug design and modelling offering and to focus on research and development and application science.

Novo Nordisk receives the full rights to develop and commercialize the lead program.

Both companies have a focus to developing and commercializing treatments for rare diseases with a strong focus on patients and supporting communities with little to no existing therapeutic options.

Tumour-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapies offer a new route to target cancer.

Pharma's ability to continually reinvent itself will be critical in growing future business operations.

Bristol Myers Squibb has joined Cellares’ Technology Adoption Partnership program just as Cellares launches operations as an integrated development and manufacturing organization.

Exploring the state of pharma patents following the Supreme Court’s Amgen v. Sanofi decision.

The new products aim to aid consumers with menopause and eye health-related issues.

Rentschler Biopharma, CGT Catapult, and Refeyn aim to use automated and digital technologies to improve AAV manufacturing for gene therapies.

Danaher intends to acquire Abcam, a provider of life sciences assays and reagents, for $5.7 billion.

Royalty Pharma agreed to spend up to $500 million for a 5.1 to 8% royalty on net sales of Ferring’s gene therapy adstiladrin (nadofaragene firadenovec-vcng).

With this agreement, Chiesi Global Rare Diseases will co-develop drug delivery systems with Aliada Therapeutics for large-molecule therapeutics that can cross the blood-brain barrier.

The collaboration between Parexel and Partex is designed to leverage artificial intelligence-powered solutions to accelerate drug discovery and development.

HitGen has entered into a research service agreement with Nested Therapeutics for use of HitGen’s DNA-encoded library for drug discovery.

Gilead and Tentarix established three multi-year collaborations to discover and develop multi-functional, conditional protein therapeutics for oncology and inflammatory diseases.

The completion of three acquisitions of Versanis Bio, Sigilon Therapeutics, and DICE Therapeutics boosts Eli Lilly and Company’s product pipeline in obesity, diabetes, and immunology.

Under the exclusive agreement, Hikma will commercialize products in Rakuten Medical’s pipeline for cancer treatment in the Middle East and North Africa region.

A report from the UK Bioindustry Association report indicated that biotech venture and public financing rose from £295 million in the first quarter to £382 million in the second quarter.