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  • News Troubleshooting from a tablet manufacturer’s perspective

    I Holland to host a solutions-led seminar focusing on resolving tablet compression issues.
  • News Rentschler Biotechnologie transitions into a European corporation called Rentschler Biopharma SE

    This legal form of company strengthens its position as a full-service CDMO and ensures its place as an industry leader.
  • News Boosting capabilities through collaboration

    CDMO, Micro-Sphere partners with German machine manufacturer Harro Höfliger for the latest step in its 21 million CHF (€19 million) investment into its facility in Switzerland.
  • News Merck invests €35 million in its Italian biotech manufacturing site of Bari

    New production line for the aseptic filling of biotech medicines under isolator.
  • News Construction starts for Sartorius' new Cell Culture Technology Centre

    The 30-million-euro investment will accommodate the growing needs of customers.
  • News PnuVax awarded $29.4 million grant to advance innovative vaccine into clinical trials

    Use of PnuVax’s unique patented conjugation platform technology to produce the vaccine is expected to speed up biomanufacturing and increase yield for a greatly reduced per-dose cost.
  • News SGS partnership helps clients to beat pharmaceutical counterfeiting

    Partnership will provide SGS clients with a unique additional analytical service that uses cutting-edge technology to verify product authenticity, process authenticity and product/process infringement.
  • News Brammer Bio expands "much needed" cell and gene therapy capacity

    CDMO partners with Pall Life Sciences to deliver an end-to-end single-use platform solution from upstream to downstream.
  • News Quanticate doubles its footprint in India

    New center of excellence to support further development of collaborative, long-term partnerships with leading pharmaceutical companies.
  • News Domestic companies predict a 16% growth in the South Korean pharma market

    CPHI onsite survey highlights emerging trends in 2017 for South Korean pharma.
  • News Highly potent APIs - can your CMO handle them?

    The importance of ensuring a facility has the right capabilities when selecting a CMO to handle high potency ingredients.
  • News CPHI Worldwide Pharma Awards finalists unveiled

    Largest ever CPHI Pharma Awards receives 200+ entries, with judges evaluating over 250,000 words.
  • News Ardena acquisition will support sponsors with bioanalytical and drug discovery services

    CDMO on target to become a one-source contract partner for early-phase development.
  • News Centauri scoops up to £945K award to develop innovative antibiotics

    Project will use the company's Alphamer technology, which is based on 'programmable immunity' in which chemically synthesized molecules redirect naturally occurring antibodies to selected pathogens to fight the infection.
  • News Lyophilization questions answered in real time

    Two free webinars - 'Lyophilizer Sublimation and Heat Transfer Modelling' and 'The Freezing Stage in Freeze Drying: Fundamental Concepts 2.0' - delivered by industry experts.
  • News Building on shaky foundations? 'No way' says Sartorius

    Award-winning building protected by special construction against vibration and temperature fluctuations.
  • News New service delivers streamlined pathway for Phase I trial milestones

    Whether you're a small, virtual firm or Big Pharma, Recipharm Pathway to Clinic can remove the complexity out of first in human projects.
  • News FDA warns Pfizer company about cGMP violations associated with the manufacture of EpiPen

    Warning letter cites Meridian Medical Technologies' failure to thoroughly investigate multiple serious component and product failures of EpiPen products.
  • News Research reveals costly implementation is the biggest barrier to serialization compliance

    The time it takes to develop a solution has been gravely underestimated by a large part of the industry.
  • News Merck prepares strategic options for the Consumer Health business

    Important step in executing science and technology focused strategy.
  • News Novo Nordisk settles US federal investigation of marketing practices

    In connection with the $60 million settlement, the company has also resolved several private whistle-blower cases related to the government's investigation.
  • News Eli Lilly streamline operation to affect 3500 workers

    Majority of the positions eliminated expected to come from a US voluntary early retirement program.
  • News Vectura and Pulmatrix sign branded generic tiotropium bromide development agreement

    Major new tiotropium bromide DPI development programme accelerated through licensing of Pulmatrix technology.
  • News Life-extending pancreatic cancer medicine recommended by NICE in final guidance

    The pivotal Phase III study demonstrated that treatment with Abraxane in combination with gemcitabine can offer patients a median overall survival improvement of 1.8 months.
  • News Merck to acquire Rigontec, RIG-I therapeutics pioneer, advancing leadership in immuno-oncology

    Rigontec’s immuno-oncology approach of engaging the innate immune system to safely eliminate cancer cells complements Merck's strategy and current pipeline.
  • News Novartis CEO, Joseph Jimenez, to retire from Novartis in 2018

    Vasant Narasimhan appointed CEO, effective 1February 2018.
  • News SGS Clinical Research strengthens its consultancy service to accelerate drugs through early phase development

    Company consolidates its consultancy portfolio into a single, comprehensive offering.
  • News Catalent signs commercial manufacturing agreement with US WorldMeds for lofexidine

    Lofexidine is an investigational drug under development to mitigate symptoms associated with opioid withdrawal.
  • News Clintec expands UK headquarters and is presented with Queens Award for Enterprise – International Trade

    Company's additional 4327-sq ft floor at Clintec’s Glasgow-based headquarters forms a fully dedicated centre of excellence for clinical research and quality assurance capabilities.
  • News Takeda disappointed as NICE issue second negative draft decision for ixazomib

    Company says it is determined to work collaboratively to find a solution.
  • News Janssen enters exclusive distribution agreement for Invokana and Vokanamet

    Distribution agreement covers countries in the EEA and Switzerland.
  • News 3SBio accelerates expansion of its global biologics platform

    The Chinese biopharmaceutical company acquires the Canadian biomanufacturing business of Therapure.
  • News Merck successfully closes biosimilars transaction

    Step towards strategic alignment of R&D resources to Healthcare priorities.
  • News FDA approves Pfizer's Mylotarg for treatment of AML

    Only approved antibody-drug conjugate for newly diagnosed and relapsed or refractory CD33-positive AML.
  • News Xeno-free cell culture medium for regenerative medicine research

    StemFit Basic02 offers superior and stable growth performance, high colony forming efficiency and robust scalable cell expansion.
  • News Thermo Fisher Scientific completes acquisition of Patheon

    Patheon's CDMO capabilities coupled with Thermo's clinical trials services and bioproduction technologies expected to make Thermo and "even stronger partner" for its pharmaceutical and biotech customers.
  • News AstraZeneca and Takeda collaborate to develop and commercialise MEDI1341 for Parkinson’s disease

    MEDI1341 has the potential to achieve a better efficacy and safety profile than other alpha-synuclein antibodies.
  • News Cambrex invests in new analytical development and method validation laboratory at its High Point, NC Facility

    Expansion comes as a result of increased industry demand to better understand and characterize APIs and process intermediates at the clinical stage.