Production & Manufacturing

Oxgene, a biotechnology company designing and developing scalable gene therapy technologies, has announced the launch of its scalable, plasmid-free manufacturing system for Adeno-associated virus (AAV). Oxgene’s new TESSA technology addresses industry-wide challenges associated with robust and reproducible AAV manufacture...

T-knife GmbH, a next-generation adoptive T-cell company using its proprietary humanized T-cell receptor (HuTCR) mouse platform to treat solid tumors, and Catalent, the leading global provider of advanced delivery technologies, development, and manufacturing solutions for drugs, biologics, cell and...

Samsung Biologics and AstraZeneca announced a long-term supply agreement, valued at approximately $330.8 million. Under this agreement, Samsung Biologics will provide large-scale commercial manufacturing for drug substance in its Plant 3 as well as drug product to support AstraZeneca’s...

BioNTech SE announced the signing of a share purchase agreement with Novartis AG, Basel / Switzerland to acquire their GMP certified manufacturing facility in Marburg, Germany. The manufacturing site will expand BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine production capacity by up to...

GigaGen Inc., a biotechnology company advancing transformative antibody drugs for infectious diseases, transplant rejection and checkpoint resistant cancers, announced the company has initiated large-scale manufacturing of its first-in-class recombinant hyperimmune drug for COVID-19, GIGA-2050, in collaboration with two partners...

Catalent, the leading global provider of advanced delivery technologies, development, and manufacturing solutions for drugs, biologics, cell and gene therapies, and consumer health products, announced that it is investing $130 million to add five additional Phase 3 through commercial-scale...

Swiss biotech company Memo Therapeutics AG (MTx), and Northway Biotechpharma (Northway), a leading biopharmaceutical Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), announce a new partnership to manufacture MTx’s therapeutic COVID-19 antibody candidate in a 4 month fast-track process approved by...