Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
V-Bio Ventures has announced the final closing of its second fund, V-Bio Fund 2, having raised EUR 110 million euro and exceeding its target of EUR 100 million.
Symbiosis Pharmaceutical Services Ltd, a contract manufacturing organisation (CMO) specialising in sterile global manufacture of pharmaceuticals, vaccines and biopharmaceuticals including Advanced Therapeutical Medicinal Products (ATMPs), has completed a £1.3 million collaborative UKRI-funded project as part of the medicines manufacturing challenge.
The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended the approval of Roche’s Polivy (polatuzumab vedotin) in combination with MabThera (rituximab) plus cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and prednisone (R-CHP) for the treatment of previously untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).
Scenic Biotech BV (‘Scenic’ or ‘the Company’), a pioneer in the discovery of genetic modifiers to enable the development of disease modifying therapeutics for rare genetic disorders and other devastating illnesses, and the Barth Syndrome Foundation (BSF or ‘the Foundation’), have entered into a partnership to support the advancement of Scenic’s in-house drug discovery program to find novel tailored treatments for Barth syndrome, a devastating multi-system disorder that leads to complex clinical manifestations and significantly reduced life expectancy.
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ViiV Healthcare’s Cabenuva (cabotegravir, rilpivirine) for the treatment of HIV-1 in virologically suppressed adolescents (HIV-1 RNA less than 50 copies per milliliter [c/mL]) who are 12 years of age or older and weigh at least 35kg on a stable antiretroviral regimen, with no history of treatment failure, and with no known or suspected resistance to either cabotegravir or rilpivirine.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Novo Nordisk’s a 2.0 mg dose of Ozempic (once-weekly semaglutide subcutaneous injection), a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analogue for the treatment of adults with type 2 diabetes.
Moderna, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRNA) has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its amendment to the emergency use authorization (EUA) to allow for a second booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1273) at the 50 µg dose level in adults 50 years of age and older who have received an initial booster of any of the authorized or approved COVID-19 vaccines and adults 18 years of age and older with certain kinds of immunocompromise.
Rentschler Biopharma and Vetter, two globally operating Contract Development and Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs), have announced that the companies are unveiling Xpert Alliance, a joint visualization of their strategic collaboration.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has validated Bristol Myers Squibb-s type II variation application for Opdivo (nivolumab) in combination with chemotherapy for the neoadjuvant treatment of patients with resectable stage IB to IIIA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), based on results from the CheckMate -816 trial.
Rejuvenate Biomed NV (“Rejuvenate”), a biomedical company developing novel combination drugs for age-related diseases, has provided an update on its development pipeline and strategy.