Through the acquisition, Amgen will have access to Five Prime’s oncology portfolio, which includes bemarituzumab, Five Prime’s Phase-III ready anti-FGFR2b antibody.

Rokote Laboratories Finland, an academic spin-out located in Finland, is working to develop a nasal spray vaccine against COVID-19 based on research from the University of Helsinki and the University of Eastern Finland.

The expansion will allow Ashland to focus on clinical study projects and commercialization activities.

USP is collaborating with Phlow to build a new lab that will develop test methods and standards to facilitate broader adoption of continuous manufacturing.

Heather N. Sugrue will serve as the company’s vice-president of Business Development.

Manufacturing of the vaccine will take place at Baxter’s fill/finish sterile manufacturing facilities located in Bloomington, IN.

Validation for SaaS LIMS, advance analytics, and cybersecurity features announced during Pittcon virtual press conference.

The European Medicines Agency has begun a rolling review based on laboratory and clinical studies of the Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac).

The European Medicines Agency and Health Canada have published clinical data used to support the authorization of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.

The guidance document provides recommendations for reporting and implementing changes to container closure system components consisting of glass vials and stoppers for sterile drug products.

With funding from the federal government, Merck will expand capacity to produce J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine.

In a pandemic, genetic vaccines offer several advantages over traditional approaches.

AstraZeneca has announced that the mass rollout of its COVID-19 vaccine has begun via the COVAX initiative.

Oxular has raised US $37 million in a financing round led by specialist life sciences investor, Forbion.

Arcline Investment Management has acquired ChargePoint Technology, strengthening its global presence.

A recent survey by SwedenBIO has demonstrated a major upswing in the Swedish life science industry.

EMA has recommended that Evrysdi be granted marketing authorization in the EU for the treatment of patients with certain types of SMA.

RDIF has announced that the Sputnik V vaccine for COVID-19 has been approved in Slovakia under the emergency use authorization procedure.

The EC has launched a structured dialogue aimed at gaining a better understanding of global medicines supply chains and to identify potential causes and drivers of vulnerabilities.

Pharmaceutical laboratories must work to maintain lab data integrity practices as the pandemic surges on and cybersecurity risks increase.

The rapid and efficient delivery of innovative treatments through the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the value of collaborations within the bio/pharma industry.

Reviews of FDA initiatives and activities recapitulate efforts to assess and approve new drugs, generic drugs, and biologics and strategies for advancing new initiatives.

Bio/pharma works hard today to change the calendar to tomorrow.

More work is needed to ensure the rising demand for cell and gene therapy manufacturing capacity and required skilled workforce can be met in Europe.

FDA moves recommended timeline for API and drug manufacturers to assess impurity risks to March 31, 2021.

Under the terms of the acquisition, OXGENE will become a fully owned subsidiary of WuXi Advanced Therapies, WuXi AppTec’s cell and gene therapy contract testing, development, and manufacturing organization business unit.

Takeda is divesting the products because they are outside of Takeda’s current business focus, which includes gastroenterology, rare diseases, plasma-derived therapies, oncology, and neuroscience.

The companies intend to design and implement algorithms for the early stages of research for drug discovery and development of drug candidates to treat Alzheimer’s disease.