Astellas Pharma Inc has announced the opening of a new late stage clinical and commercial manufacturing facility in Sanford, North Carolina, US. The facility will allow the company to expand its resources and team to establish a robust, global supply chain and expand its therapeutic and geographic scope. Article Summary The new 135,000 square-foot state-of-the-art...
The Center for Breakthrough Medicines (CBM) in partnership with the Discovery Labs has accelerated the plans to build capacity to manufacture more than 10,000 patient therapies in direct response to the critical shortage of cell therapy supply, which will help patients win their courageous battles against cancer. Article Summary Planning has begun on a massive...
A clinical-stage oncology company Prescient Therapeutics (PTX) has launched its second cell therapy platform, CellPryme-M, which produces superior cells with greater cancer killing activity. This platform opens commercial opportunities for the company to incorporate it into third-party manufacturing processes. Article Summary PTX has developed this new platform technology in association with its research partner, Peter...
Article Summary Tessa Therapeutics Ltd has announced the close of a US$126 million Series A financing round. The funding was led by Polaris Partners and existing investors, including Temasek, EDBI, Heliconia Capital and Heritas Capital. In conjunction with the financing, Amy Schulman and Darren Carroll, Managing Partners at Polaris Partners, have joined Tessa’s Board of...
Excerpt Large-scale funding for the Institut Pasteur de Dakar’s new vaccine manufacturing facility, a leader in the area in Africa. The facility, which would produce up to 300 million doses per year against COVID-19 and other endemic diseases, is projected to considerably reduce Africa’s reliance on imported vaccines and support equal access to medicines. This...
Excerpt GSK will pay $2.1 billion up front and up to $1.2 billion in development milestone payments. The proposed acquisition will give the company access to a next-generation 24-valent pneumococcal vaccine candidate in phase II development as well as MAPSTM technology, which is extremely innovative. Encourages the development of a diverse portfolio of novel vaccines...
Excerpt The World Bank has approved $9.5 billion in operations to assist vaccination rollout in 77 countries as of June 15, 2022. Article Summary The World Bank Group is collaborating with partners on the world’s largest vaccine programme to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors adopted a $6 billion Global...
Excerpt: Nippon Express Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “Nippon Express”), a group company of Nippon Express Holdings, Inc., launched on May 30 a logistics service capable of handling goods requiring ultra-low temperatures (-20 C to -85 C) for the pharmaceutical industry. Article Summary: As a priority approach for the core business growth strategy outlined in the...
Excerpt: Samsung Biologics CEO John Rim said Monday the US states of California, North Carolina, Washington and Texas are the strongest candidates the South Korean contract manufacturing organization is considering for its first overseas production facility. Article Summary: Pointing out that some of the US’ major bio clusters are located in those four states,...
Excerpt: Logistics provider GXO plans to open a 20,000m2 warehouse dedicated to the pharmaceutical sector in Caleppio di Settala in Milan, Italy, by the end of June 2022. Article Summary: The location was chosen for its proximity to major surface transportation arteries to help enable pharmaceutical companies to meet the stringent lead times required for...
