Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
#Symbiosis Pharmaceutical Services has invested over £1.5m ($1.9m) during the last year, to expand its sterile biologics manufacturing facility in Scotland, UK by 25%.
Swiss-based Roche’s is buying Spark Therapeutics for of $114.50 per share in cash, total $4.3 billion through its fully owned subsidiary 022019 Merger Subsidiary.
Inceptua, a pharmaceutical company and service partner in comparator sourcing for clinical trials, through early access programs to licensing and commercialization of products, said Wednesday that Stefan Fraenkel, Executive Vice President, and Member of the Executive Leadership Team, is promoted to CEO effective 1 January, 2020.
Pharmaceutical companies have started to embrace a more collaborative way of working as part of a movement to help overcome some of the challenges the industry is facing. Expiring patents and a tight regulatory environment are just some of the issues that are hoped to be resolved through forming partnerships across the industry, and even with competitors.
Synimmune GmbH, a biotechnology company focusing on the development of innovative and effective anti-tumor antibodies for orphan hematopoietic malignancies, presented results of its first-in-human clinical study of FLYSYN, a novel Fc-optimized antibody, for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) were presented at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida.
Merck said Monday that it iwll, through a subsidiary, initiate a tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares of ArQule for nearly $2.7 billion, or for $20 per share in cash.
Equillium got U.S. FDA’s Fast Track designation for itolizumab for the treatment of lupus nephritis, after startign the phase 1 study of itolizumab in patients with lupus and lupus nephritis in September 2019.
Inceptua Medicines Access, a business unit of the Inceptua Group, has announced the collaboration with Onconova Therapeutics to make available intravenous rigosertib via a Pre-approval Access Program in selected countries around the world.
Actinium Pharmaceuticals is advancing the development of low dose Iodine-131 apamistamab, a CD45 targeting antibody radiation-conjugate (ARC), as an alternative to today’s standard practice of chemotherapy-based lymphodepletion regimens like fludarabine/cyclophosphamide (Flu/Cy), which have been implicated in CAR-T toxicities including cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and neurotoxicity.
Novartis Phase III Palladium clinical trial has met the primary endpoing, as it showed that QMF149, a once-daily fixed-dose combination of indacaterol acetate and mometasone furoate (IND/MF) in development, was superior to mometasone furoate (MF) at medium and high doses in improving lung function.