Fierce Pharma

APRIL 3, 2024

Demand fluctuations have spurred Thermo Fisher Scientific to downsize at the plasmid DNA manufacturing facility the company opened a little less than three years ago, putting jobs on the chopping b | Demand fluctuations have spurred Thermo Fisher Scientific to downsize at the plasmid DNA manufacturing facility the company opened a little less than (..)

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Fierce Pharma

OCTOBER 3, 2023

As Galderma attempts to round out its injectable aesthetics portfolio with approvals to resolve crow’s feet and frown lines, the FDA spotted a few manufacturing wrinkles in its RelabotulinumtoxinA | The agency spotted issues relating to chemistry, manufacturing and controls (CMC) processes in the company's application for its liquid botulinum (..)

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Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

To get a pulse on Moderna following its “year of transition” in 2023, look no further than the company’s manufacturing operations. | To get a pulse on Moderna following its “year of transition” in 2023, look no further than the company’s manufacturing operations.

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Fierce Pharma

JANUARY 4, 2024

Already with a manufacturing site in Chiba, Japan, AGC Biologics is doubling down on its presence in the country with a new facility in Yokohama. Already with a manufacturing site in Chiba, Japan, AGC Biologics is doubling down on its presence in the country with a new facility in Yokohama.

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Manufacturing 276

Fierce Pharma

JANUARY 9, 2024

But the Japanese company will have to clear up manufacturing issues first. The FDA has sent a complete response letter to Astellas, rejecting zolbetuximab because of unresolved deficiencies identified in a pre-license inspection of a third-party manufacturing facility.

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Manufacturing FDA 271

Fierce Pharma

DECEMBER 7, 2023

When it comes to manufacturing cell therapies, it's often said that the "process is the product." The company says it's working to address the situation.

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Fierce Pharma

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

After a former human resources officer blew the whistle on alleged manufacturing shortfalls at Eli Lilly’s massive Branchburg, New Jersey, production plant, the parties have been engaged in settlem | After a former human resources officer blew the whistle on alleged manufacturing shortfalls at Eli Lilly’s massive Branchburg, New Jersey, production (..)

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Manufacturing 317

Fierce Pharma

APRIL 9, 2024

Though gene therapy manufacturing specialist Ascend Advanced Therapies just launched a little more than a year ago, the CDMO is already on the hunt to expand. Ascend, which bills itself as a “total solutions gene therapy development partner,” has picked up the manufacturing team and site of Beacon Therapeutics in Alachua, Florida.

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Manufacturing 273

Fierce Pharma

JANUARY 22, 2024

Eli Lilly’s beleaguered manufacturing site in Branchburg, New Jersey, is back in the U.S. The observations run the gamut from problems in tracking manufacturing processes and quality controls to equipment calibration lapses and poor facility maintenance. Food and Drug Administration’s crosshairs, Reuters first reported.

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Fierce Pharma

APRIL 18, 2024

History is coming full circle as induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell-derived cell therapy maker Shinobi Therapeutics links up with Panasonic and Japan’s Kyoto University, where the first mouse iPS | Shinobi Therapeutics has entered an accord with electronics powerhouse Panasonic and Kyoto University in a bid to develop a new closed-system manufacturing (..)

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Fierce Pharma

OCTOBER 18, 2023

UCB has been “eagerly awaiting” an FDA approval for its psoriasis therapy Bimzelx (bimekizumab) after manufacturing problems resulted in a rejection last May. The FDA rejected the drug last May after conducting an inspection at UCB's Belgian manufacturing plant. Now, the wait is over. |

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Manufacturing FDA 266

Fierce Pharma

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Texas has accused Pfizer and manufacturer Tris Pharma of knowingly providing compromised ADHD medicine to a state Medicaid program for children of low-income families. | In its lawsuit, Texas says the companies knew that deficient manufacturing processes compromised the effectiveness of Quillivant XR.

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Fierce Pharma

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A challenging year for the biotech industry has taken a heavy toll on Chinese manufacturer WuXi Biologics, sending the company’s stock plummeting nearly 24% Monday. WuXi Biologics expects to miss its original sales target for the year by around $400 million, thanks to reductions across its development and manufacturing services.

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Fierce Pharma

MARCH 13, 2024

After Takeda’s unsuccessful attempt to sell an Austrian manufacturing and development site, the Japan-based company is calling it quits on much of the operations at the facility.

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Manufacturing 280

Fierce Pharma

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

. | Amgen is growing its decade-old collaboration with Amazon Web Services—a widely used cloud platform—to create generative artificial intelligence that the companies aim to use to increase the manufacturing throughput of pharmaceuticals.

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Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

FDA unleashes multiple warning letters targeting insanitary manufacturing and online sales of unapproved Mounjaro, Ozempic fkansteiner Wed, 02/14/2024 - 05:10

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Fierce Pharma

AUGUST 22, 2023

Problems with quality management, data integrity, expired raw materials and more have prompted the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to put the kibosh on manufacturing at Serra Pamies’ Reus, Spain, f | Problems with quality management, data integrity, expired raw materials and more have prompted the European Medicines Agency to put the kibosh on manufacturing (..)

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Fierce Pharma

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The days of booming COVID-19 vaccine sales, which sent Moderna into the ranks of pharma's top companies, have | The company is focusing on scaling back its manufacturing efforts to cope with the lack of COVID-19 vaccine demand.

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Fierce Pharma

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

After inking and expanding a biosimilar production partnership with Pfizer this summer, Korea’s Samsung Biologics is boosting yet another Big Pharma manufacturing agreement. The partners have already been working together on antibody manufacturing and have expanded their relationship over time.

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Fierce Pharma

MARCH 4, 2024

Following an inspection of Eugia's injectables facility in Telangana, India, the FDA issued a formal rebuke laying out seven manufacturing observations, parent company Aurobindo said in a recent filing. Aurobindo said the observations are “procedural in nature” and that it plans to respond to the FDA.

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Manufacturing FDA 249

Fierce Pharma

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As strong demand continues to push Mounjaro sales to new highs, Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks said the company is "not done with" manufacturing expansions. But strong demand continues to push sales of the GLP-1/GIP agonist to new highs ahead of an FDA decision on weight loss. |

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Fierce Pharma

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As bluebird bio’s pricey gene therapy launches take flight, the company is boosting manufacturing capacity with Swiss CDMO Lonza. Under the updated deal, Lonza has agreed to increase manufacturing capacity for bluebird’s therapies Zynteglo and Skysona, according to a SEC filing published Wednesday.

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Manufacturing 254

Fierce Pharma

JANUARY 4, 2024

As bankers predict a rise in private equity exits this year, one of 2024’s M&A moves could come from the drug manufacturing realm. billion), Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing people close to the talks.

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Fierce Pharma

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

After a manufacturing-related complete response letter held up the U.S. | UCB had previously expected an FDA decision during the first half of the year after suffering a prior rejection on its medicine. But now the company warned a decision will likely be delayed past the third quarter.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

JUNE 13, 2024

What are the top three challenges associated with gene therapy manufacturing? Manufacturing of AAV vectors for gene therapy presents several significant challenges, such as: Scalability : AAV production often involves complex biological processes that are difficult to scale without compromising quality and yield.

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Fierce Pharma

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

WuXi's bioconjugation spinoff is set to break free onto the Hong Kong Stock Exchange this month, with plans to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds back into its Asian manufacturing n | WuXi's bioconjugation spinoff is set to break free onto the Hong Kong Stock Exchange this month, with plans to funnel hundreds of millions of (..)

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Fierce Pharma

APRIL 30, 2024

UK's Centre for Process Innovation plots cloud-first manufacturing plant as part of digital collaboration with AZ, GSK and more fkansteiner Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:01

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Manufacturing 240

Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. | EuroAPI's four-year restructuring campaign will include streamlining the company’s active pharmaceutical ingredients portfolio, becoming a more “focused” contract development and manufacturing organization, developing a “rationalized” industrial footprint and transforming into a “leaner organization."

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Fierce Pharma

JULY 12, 2023

. | Following an inspection of Lupin’s Pithampur Unit-2 manufacturing facility in Madhya Pradesh, India, from March 21 to March 29, the FDA handed the company an inspection with a classification of Voluntary Action Indicated.

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Fierce Pharma

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Efforts from regulators and manufacturers have brought the U.S. While there's certainly more work to do, the U.S. supply of cisplatin back to nearly 100% of pre-shortage levels, according to the White House. The moves are “greatly alleviating the shortages of carboplatin,” too, the White House said.

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Fierce Pharma

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

. | Roche may not receive the FDA's decision on a subcutaneous version of its cancer immunotherapy Tecentriq on time thanks to the agency's requirement for changes to the drug's manufacturing process.

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Manufacturing FDA 282

European Pharmaceutical Review

MAY 1, 2024

By providing pharma companies with a real-life replicable model of a cloud-first manufacturing facility, we will drive forward the digital capability of pharma manufacturers” A new digital collaboration is set to take advantage of a manufacturing facility model featuring innovative technologies, accelerating how fast new medicines are made.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

JUNE 10, 2024

The first industrial-scale pharmaceutical manufacturing facility for production of lead-212-based radioligand therapies has been inaugurated. During the earlier announcement for its French facility, Orano Med highlighted one key challenge of developing lead-212 based radioligand therapies is manufacturing then on an industrial scale.

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Fierce Pharma

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

GSK manufacturing review prompts Scynexis to pull Brexafemme, halt trials over contamination concerns esagonowsky Mon, 09/25/2023 - 12:26

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Manufacturing 271

Fierce Pharma

OCTOBER 18, 2023

After launch limitations, Johnson & Johnson exec touts manufacturing progress on CAR-T drug Carvykti fkansteiner Wed, 10/18/2023 - 14:44

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Manufacturing 248

Fierce Pharma

MARCH 28, 2024

[Yangzhou, China - March 26, 2024] - Aurisco Pharmaceutical, a leading global pharmaceutical company, is excited to announce the completion of its investment in cGMP peptide manufacturing capacity | Aurisco Pharmaceutical Launches State-of-the-Art Manufacturing Facility for GLP-1 Peptides

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