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Univercells Technologies is introducing the new generation of the NevoLine biomanufacturing product family, the NevoLine Upstream platform. This high-performance, low-footprint upstream manufacturing platform is suitable for multiple viral applications to support the booming gene therapy market and offer a cost-effective...

Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. announced that it received a study may proceed letter from the FDA for its phase 1 clinical trial for COVI-GUARD (STI-1499) in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. As Sorrento previously announced, in preclinical studies, STI-1499 demonstrated 100% in vitro...

Seattle Genetics, Inc. and Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced two new strategic oncology collaborations. The companies will globally develop and commercialize Seattle Genetics’ ladiratuzumab vedotin, an investigational antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) targeting LIV-1, which is...

CPhI Annual Report – launched ahead of the first CPhI Festival of Pharma (5-16 October, 2020), the world’s largest digital pharma Expo – predicts dramatic growth of new mAb production in China, capacity shortages for cell and gene therapies...

Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Immunomedics announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which Gilead will acquire Immunomedics for $88.00 per share in cash. The transaction, which values Immunomedics at approximately $21 billion, was unanimously...

Oxford University on Saturday, 13th Sep. 2020 announced resuming coronavirus vaccine trials, the study which was suspended following a reported side-effect in a UK patient. Oxford University, developing this vaccine with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca confirmed the restart across all...

India's top drug regulator-- Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has granted permission to Serum Institute of India (SII) to conduct phase 2 and 3 human clinical trials in India on the potential covid-19 vaccine, a senior government official...