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CDMOs benefit from COVID-19 impacts but mega-cap pharma innovation slowing outsourcing according to CPhI Annual Report

The global contact services sector is benefiting from a switch towards COVID-19 manufacturing (vaccine and therapy) and clinical stage contracts, but mega-cap innovator drug approvals are reducing commercial demand according to the CPhI Annual Report contract services findings. Adam Bradbury,...

Pfizer Announces Positive Phase 3 Study Results for XELJANZ in Ankylosing Spondylitis

Pfizer Inc. announced positive results from a Phase 3 investigational study evaluating the safety and efficacy of tofacitinib in adults with active ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Tofacitinib is not currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for...

Lonza Celebrates the Grand Opening of a New Facility for ADC Payload Manufacturing

Lonza, a specialty CDMO partner to the biopharma industry, today inaugurated the first of two manufacturing suites for antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) drug-linker (payload) manufacturing at the Visp (CH) site. This first manufacturing suite handles compounds with occupational exposure levels...

ACG Invests in Mumbai-Based start-up contract research organization IQGEN-X

Supplier of integrated pharmaceutical manufacturing solutions, ACG, has revealed in a Nov. 3, 2020 press release, that it has acquired a significant stake in IQGEN-X, a Mumbai-based start-up contract research organization (CRO). The investment supports ACG’s augmentation into R&D and...

Turkish Cargo strengthens its presence in Budapest with Scheduled Cargo Flights

Enjoying the widest direct cargo flight network in the world, the global air cargo carrier, Turkish Cargo continues to increase the number of direct freighter only destinations. Having an attractive location from the viewpoint of the logistics and trading companies,...

Pelican BioThermal to Present at LogiPharma Europe

Pelican BioThermal, the global name in temperature controlled packaging, will be attending this year’s virtual LogiPharma Europe event and highlight how products have been adapted to meet the rising requirements of the pharmaceutical sector’s rapid response to the global...

The Pistoia Alliance warns pharma needs better data-sharing infrastructure, following roundtable with Gilead, Roche and others

The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation in life science and healthcare R&D, held a virtual roundtable with leaders from global pharma organizations, including Gilead, Roche and AbbVie, to discuss learnings to...

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