Drug Research

Global contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), Sterling Pharma Solutions (Sterling), has announced a new strategic partnership with ADC Biotechnology (ADC Bio), a UK based biotechnology company specialising in antibody drug conjugates. The partnership will see Sterling make a significant...

Moderna, Inc. , a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients, announced a supply agreement with the UK government for an additional 2 million doses of mRNA-1273,...

Samsung Biologics officially began construction of its Plant 4 in Incheon, South Korea. Dubbed the “Super Plant,” the new, multi-story 238,000-square-meter construction will be the world’s largest biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility of its kind boasting 256,000 liters total manufacturing capacity. In...

CureVac N.V., a biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of transformative medicines based on messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), and Wacker Chemie AG announced that they had signed a contract for the manufacturing of CureVac’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate CVnCoV. Under...

Eli Lilly and Company and Precision BioSciences, Inc. announced a research collaboration and exclusive license agreement to utilize Precision's proprietary ARCUS® genome editing platform for the research and development of potential in vivo therapies for genetic disorders, with an...

The collaboration will focus on identifying promising innovations that can be adopted through the industry in the ultimate hope of benefitting patients. The collaboration will combine the world-class research at the University of Exeter with MDC’s industry skills, discovery...

Moderna Inc. on Monday declared that its vaccine was 94.5% effective. This came just after a week when Pfizer & its partner BioNTech SE had gone public to state that their vaccine is more than 90% effective. There is...