Deals, Development and Manufacturing

Bristol Myers Squibb will handle the development and commercialization of DF6002 and its related products worldwide, including strategic decisions, regulatory responsibilities, funding, and manufacturing.

The collaboration will increase the supply of the potential treatment to at least three and a half times the current capacity.

The deal is expected to close during the second half of 2020.

The acquisition will give Sanofi access to Principia’s Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitors to add to its portfolio of next-generation transformative treatments for autoimmune diseases.

The cell banks were created using current good manufacturing practices and can be used each time CombiGene produces new plasmids for the production of its gene therapy, CG01.

SK bioscience will manufacture the vaccine antigen component for use in the final drug product at its vaccine facility in Andong L-house, South Korea.

ANA will use Quotient’s formulation and manufacturing knowledge to develop and supply the drug product for clinical trials by the third quarter of 2020.

In combination with BARDA’s previous award, the commitment for early access to Moderna’s vaccine candidate has now reached to up to $2.48 billion.

Atomwise’s technology, AtomNet, works to eliminate the barriers of physical screening for small molecule drug discovery.

The companies will work to establish an operational footprint across North America and Europe that will offer customers supply chain assurance for a combined portfolio of leading solutions.

The company will use the acquisition to further its drug development pipeline in women’s healthcare.

The companies will collaborate on the manufacturing, clinical development, and regulatory activities for Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine in Japan.

The CDMO will offer capacity for manufacturing and distributing COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics at its Grand Rapids, MI, fill/finish facility.

Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline have been selected to supply the US government and the European Union with millions of doses of their COVID-19 vaccine candidate.

The company is working to ensure broad global access to its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, following approval from regulators.

The companies have agreements to supply its mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine to Japan and Canada, pending regulatory approvals in those countries.

The companies have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement to develop, manufacture, and commercialize efinopegdutide, an investigational drug for treating nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.

PPD announced it will provide drug development services to advance Pfizer’s portfolio.

CMOs and CDMOs expanded their services and facilities in 2020.

Vico Therapeutics has raised $31 million (€27 million) in a Series A financing round, which the company will use to further advance its Antisense OligoNucleotides lead platform.

Avacta Group has expanded its partnership with Daewoong Pharmaceutical to include Affimer molecules that target viruses, such as coronavirus.

The transaction is expected to be completed during the fourth quarter of 2020.

Sangamo will receive a $75 million upfront license fee payment and will be eligible to earn up to $720 million in other development and commercial milestone payments, including up to $420 million in development milestones and up to $300 million in commercial milestones.

Sterling Pharma Solutions has signed a deal with Moleculin Biotech to support the development of WP1122, a potential COVID-19 treatment.

DuPont Nutrition and Biosciences has entered into a research collaboration in microbiome science with the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine at Rutgers University.

The companies will combine Intravacc’s OMV delivery platform with S-proteins with Celonic’s CHOvolution mammalian cell expression system to produce B and T-cell responses against SARS-CoV-2.

The acquisition gives LGM access to Nexgen’s manufacturing and warehouse distribution facilities and a pilot plant.

The companies will utilize Avid’s upstream and downstream process development and drug substance manufacturing services in conjunction with Argonaut’s parenteral drug product fill-finish services for the delivery of CGMP parenteral drug products for use in clinical studies.

The UK government is committing a further £100 million (US $127 million) to ensure that there is capability to manufacture a successful COVID-19 vaccine at scale in the UK.

Stevanato Group and Colanar have signed an agreement for lab scale fill/finish capabilities to study container closure systems at Stevanato Group’s US TEC in Boston, MA.