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Pierre-Alain Ruffieux today joins Lonza Group in the role of Chief Executive Officer. Albert Baehny has taken the role of CEO ad interim since November 2019. He will now work with Pierre-Alain to ensure a smooth handover of leadership...

Novartis and Molecular Partners AG announced a collaboration in the form of an option and license agreement to develop, manufacture and commercialize Molecular Partners’ anti-COVID-19 DARPin® program, consisting of two therapeutic candidates, MP0420 and MP0423. The collaboration aims to...

Samsung Biologics Co., Ltd. and Checkpoint Therapeutics, Inc. announced the expansion of a long-term manufacturing partnership for Checkpoint’s anti-PD-L1 antibody, cosibelimab. Building upon an existing contract manufacturing agreement entered into in 2017, Samsung Biologics will provide additional commercial-scale drug...

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have designed and tested the first-of-its-kind synthetic DNA vaccine against Powassan virus (POWV), targeting portions of the virus envelope protein. A rapidly reemerging tick-borne disease, POWV has been reported to be fatal in 10%...

Sanofi and Kiadis, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative ‘off the shelf’ natural killer (NK) cell based medicines for the treatment of life-threatening diseases, entered into a definitive agreement under which Sanofi will make a public offer (subject to...

Global air cargo brand Turkish Cargo chosen as the best air cargo brand of Europe The successful brand of national flag carrier Turkish Airlines, Turkish Cargo is chosen as the best cargo brand of Europe and received “Best Cargo...

Novavax, Inc., a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, announced updates on its Phase 3 clinical development program of NVX-CoV2373, its COVID-19 vaccine candidate. NVX?CoV2373 is a stable, prefusion protein made using Novavax’ nanoparticle technology...