Breaking news from across the pharma sector
24 October 2024 -- Laupheim, Germany -- Rentschler Biopharma SE, a leading global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for biopharmaceuticals, including advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs), today announced the construction of a new state-of-the-art buffer media station at its company headquarters in Laupheim.
17 October 2024 -- Manchester, UK -- Yourgene Health, a leading international molecular diagnostics group, announces that it has received accreditation under the new EU requirements of the in vitro diagnostic regulation (IVDR) for the Yourgene® Cystic Fibrosis Base assay. The Yourgene Cystic Fibrosis Base assay is a Class C in vitro medical device under IVDR and is intended for use by healthcare professionals within a molecular laboratory environment.
11 October 2024 -- London, UK -- Serac Imaging Systems Limited announces that its clinical partner, the University of Malaya Medical Centre, has today presented initial findings and images acquired using Seracam® for image guided surgery in a sentinel lymph node biopsy procedure at the International Conference on Hybrid Imaging (IPET 2024) organised by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
8 October 2024 -- Ohio, US -- ABITEC Corporation, a global leader in specialty lipid manufacturing, has expanded its custom synthesis capabilities to include high-purity lipids for lipid nanoparticle (LNP) therapeutics.
8 October 2024 -- California, US -- Bio-Rad Laboratories, a global leader in life science research and clinical diagnostics products, today announced the launch of the Vericheck ddPCR™ Empty-Full Capsid Kit for the determination of capsid titer, genome titer, and percentage of full capsids in purified or unpurified (crude lysate) AAV samples.
7 October 2024 -- Rome, Italy -- CrestOptics S.p.A., a manufacturer of high-end microscopy solutions and advanced systems for fluorescence microscopy and diagnostic applications, today announced the initiation of a collaboration with Leica Microsystems, a leading provider of microscopy and scientific instrumentation.
3 October 2024 -- Saint-Prex, Switzerland -- Ferring Pharmaceuticals today announced the opening of a state-of-the-art global manufacturing hub in Finland for the drug substance of its intravesical non-replicating gene therapy Adstiladrin (nadofaragene firadenovec-vncg).
3 October 2024 -- Cramlington, UK -- Sterling Pharma Solutions, a global contract development and manufacturing organisation, and Soligenix, a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercialisation of products to treat rare diseases where there is an unmet medical need, today announced a partnership that will see Sterling manufacture a GMP-quality synthetic hypericin developed by Soligenix, for its oncology drug, HyBryte™, in clinical trials.
Samedan announces that on 23-24 October 2024, their FlyPharma Conference will make a welcome return to Office Park 4, Vienna AirportCity, Austria.
2 October 2024 -- Indiana, US -- Eli Lilly and Company today announced a $4.5 billion investment to create the Lilly Medicine Foundry, a new center for advanced manufacturing and drug development. This unique facility will give Lilly the ability to research new ways of producing medicines, while also scaling up manufacturing of medicines for clinical trials.
2 October 2024 -- Paris, France -- Owkin, the first end-to-end AI-biotech that uses cutting-edge causal AI to unlock precision drug discovery, development and diagnostics, is pleased to announce a new partnership with AstraZeneca, a global biopharmaceutical company, to develop an AI-powered tool to pre-screen for gBRCA mutations (gBRCAm) in breast cancer directly from digitized pathology slides.
1 October 2024 -- Halle (Saale), Germany -- From October 22-23, Pharmatec-Halle is the meeting place for scientists, engineers and pharma professionals to exchange experiences and discuss various specialist topics. SONOTEC supports the newly established local biotech event and presents its innovative ultrasonic flow meters and air bubble detectors to the attendees.