Manufacturing

The companies have entered into an advance purchase agreement with COVAX to provide up to 40 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, BNT162b2, to lower-middle-income countries.

The company is discontinuing the development of its SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 vaccine candidates, V590 and V591, to focus on advancing its two SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 therapeutic candidates, MK-4482 and MK-7110.

The new US offices will give the company the ability to support its US-based customers on site while continuing to collaborate with its global team.

Henogen will be integrated into Thermo Fisher’s Pharma Services business within its Laboratory Products and Services segment.

The 40,000-ft.2 facility will feature eight cleanrooms with configurations for the production of cell and viral vector products.

The acquisition significantly expands Precision Medicine Group’s cell and gene therapy expertise.

The fill line will work to manufacture high-value APIs for drug product manufacturing to meet the needs of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 17,000 m2 facility will serve as a process development and manufacturing site for Chinese companies developing medicines as well as multinationals with manufacturing requirements in China.

Packaging and transporting large quantities of COVID-19 vaccines pose challenges for the cold chain.

Acorda’s Chelsea, MA facility will serve as a global center of excellence in the Catalent network for spray-dried dispersion and dry powder encapsulation and packaging.

Baxter will provide commercial-scale manufacturing services at its Halle/Westfalen, Germany facility to prepare Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate for distribution in the United Kingdom and European markets.

The company plans to expand its global production capacity across six existing manufacturing facilities in Europe and the United States, as well as a new manufacturing facility in the US.

The new facility, which will be operated by Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, will provide large-scale cell-culture manufacturing of bulk drug substance with 8 x 20,000-L bioreactors.

The company plans to deliver initial doses by mid-2021, and Australia will have the option to purchase up to 10 million additional doses through the agreement.

Bayer will support the development and supply of CureVac’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, CVnCoV.

The transaction will include operations located at different Novasep sites, including its Pompey, France site and sites in the United States, China, and India.

The new facility, to be located in Boston, MA, will contain experimental and analytical equipment for viral vector and advanced therapy process development and will expand the CDMO’s manufacturing capacity.

Using rDNA technology to synthesize production of proteins and peptide hormones, the biotech startup has achieved synthetic production of insulin, potentially lowering insulin cost by 30%.

Pharmaceutical Technology interviewed Cloudleaf about trends in tracking vaccines through the supply chain.

The companies have entered into an agreement to support the formulation and fill/finish of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine supply outside of the United States.

Part of Operation Warp Speed, the trial will enroll 30,000 people ages 18 to 64 and 65 and older at 115 sites.

Biopharma looks to deliver on COVID-19 vaccines and other promising therapies.

Essential bio/pharma employees show hard work and dedication can pay off for patients.

Demand for specific advanced laboratory skills drives creates a positive employment market.

Consider a matrix of factors when choosing what type of cleanroom facility to construct.