Deals, Development and Manufacturing

Roche will gain exclusive worldwide rights to develop, manufacture, and commercialize Ionis’ investigational RNA-based therapeutic candidates for Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease.

Orakl Oncology has raised funds to develop its precision oncology platform and accelerate drug development.

Cambrex has completed the expansion of its North Carolina facility, doubling its manufacturing capacity.

Biosynth has further strengthened its peptide division with the acquisition of Pepceuticals.

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.

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

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.

Samsung Biologics and Bristol Myers Squibb have further expanded their strategic manufacturing agreement to include the large-scale manufacture of an antibody cancer drug substance.

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.

Recipharm will provide analytical and process development capabilities to support toxicology studies, in addition to GLP manufacturing of lipid nanoparticles to capture the active pharmaceutical ingredient, an antigen peptide.

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

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).

Bright Path will develop and produce APIs for hospitals facing drug shortages in the Capstone Health Alliance.

Sartorius’ Biostat STR now incorporates Repligen’s XCell ATF hardware.

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.

The agreement also lists that AGC Biologics will leverage the company’s monoclonal antibody development and manufacturing experience to perform process transfer, process optimization, and clinical manufacturing of the Asahi Kasei drug substance.

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.

Cytomos will use the £4 million in funding to develop its dielectric spectroscopy technology.

Under a manufacturing agreement, Northway Biotech will develop a manufacturing process for iTolerance’s fusion protein in development for regenerative therapy.

AstraZeneca, via its subsidiary Alexion Pharmaceuticals, will purchase a portfolio of preclinical rare disease gene therapies from Pfizer in a deal worth up to $1 billion.