Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Recipharm, a global contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), has announces the closing of its acquisitions of advanced therapy CDMO Arranta Bio and virotherapy CDMO Vibalogics.
Moderna, Inc., (Nasdaq:MRNA) has announced that Jorge Gomez will join Moderna as Chief Financial Officer, effective Monday, May 9, 2022. He will serve on Moderna’s Executive Committee and report to Chief Executive Officer, Stéphane Bancel.
Global pharmaceutical contract packaging organisation (CPO), Tjoapack has completed its expansion plans following a €10m+ plus investment at its Etten-Leur facility in the Netherlands.
Moderna, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRNA), has announced the first participants have been dosed in the Phase 1/2 study of the company’s seasonal influenza vaccine candidates, mRNA-1020 and mRNA-1030.
Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE AMERICAN: ATNM), has announced positive results from preclinical studies evaluating an anti-HER3 antibody, conjugated with an Actinium-225 (Ac-225) radioisotope payload, for targeting HER3-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells.
Adrenomed AG, the vascular integrity company, has announced that its proprietary sepsis drug candidate Adrecizumab (HAM8101) received a funding commitment of € 7.4 million from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the German funding initiatives for the clinical development of COVID-19 drugs and their manufacturing capabilities.
SciRhom GmbH has nominated the anti-iRhom2 antibody it will advance into clinical development. For this antibody, the company has closed an agreement with a top-tier biopharmaceutical manufacturer for the CMC development.
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) announced updated results from the Phase 3 CROWN trial, which evaluated LORBRENA (lorlatinib, available in Europe under the brand name LORVIQUA) versus XALKORI (crizotinib) in people with previously untreated anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) has provided a data update from the ongoing study of the company’s lead innate cell engager (ICE) AFM13 precomplexed with cord blood-derived natural killer (cbNK) cells.
Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., Ltd (“Junshi Biosciences”, HKEX: 1877; SSE: 688180) and Coherus BioSciences, Inc. (“Coherus”) have announced the results of the prespecified final progression-free survival (“PFS”) analysis and the interim overall survival (“OS”) analysis of the JUPITER-02 study (NCT03581786), a pivotal Phase 3 trial in first-line treatment of recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (“NPC”).