Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd. (SIX: BSLN) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to divest its Chinese research and development (R&D) subsidiary Basilea Pharmaceutica China Ltd. (“BPC”), by selling BPC’s parent company BPh Investitionen Ltd. to the U.S.-based custom manufacturing organization PHT International Inc. (“PHT”).
AstraZeneca on Thursday said it expects its 2021 revenue to grow after its COVID-19 vaccine success topped previous estimates for fourth-quarter sales.
Abzena announced they have been chosen to work with Immunome Inc. to produce IMM-BCP-01 for clinical testing – an investigational therapeutic antibody cocktail for the treatment of COVID-19 being developed to target multiple SARS-CoV-2 antigens.
WuXi STA has agreed to purchase Bristol Myers Squibb’s manufacturing facility in Couvet, Switzerland. The Couvet site will be the first facility in Europe for WuXi STA, a leading Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization. The acquisition will enhance WuXi STA’s existing capabilities while growing capacity to support its partners’ life-saving work.
After the US president’s Biden said the US Federal government would buy 100 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna and another 100 million from Pfizer, Moderna today confirmed that it is in discussion with the U.S. government to purchase an additional 100 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine for delivery in the third quarter of 2021.
CatalYm GmbH, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel cancer immunotherapies, announced today the start of clinical development of CTL-002, its proprietary GDF-15 neutralizing antibody designed to enhance effector T cell entry into the tumor microenvironment.
Immunicum AB will move its in-house research and process development activities into a new facility at the Leiden Bio Science…
Teneobio, Inc. and its affiliate TeneoThree, Inc. announced today that their investigational new drug application (IND) for TNB-585, a bispecific T-cell engaging antibody for the treatment of metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) was cleared for the initiation of Phase I clinical studies by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on January 23, 2021.
Myovant Sciences and Pfizer said Monday that the Phase 3 SPIRIT long-term extension study of the investigational once-daily relugolix combination…
Reuters news agency referred to the Economic Times as saying Monday that Tata Group’s healthcare venture has reportedly started the first discussions with Moderna Inc for a partnership to launch its COVID-19 vaccine in India.