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SomaLogic and Twist Bioscience Corporation announce partnership to discover novel therapeutic targets and antibodies

CM Life Sciences II and SomaLogic, Inc., a leader in AI-data driven proteomics technology, and Twist Bioscience Corporation, a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced a collaboration...

Gritstone and CEPI Announce Agreement to Advance Second-Generation COVID-19 Vaccine Program Against SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern

Gritstone bio, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing next generation cancer and infectious disease immunotherapies, announced that the company entered into a funding agreement of up to $20.6 million with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to advance...

Exelixis and Invenra expand partnership to develop cancer antibodies

Exelixis and Invenra have extended their discovery and licensing partnership to include 20 more oncology targets for multi-specific antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates, and the development of other biologic candidates. In May 2018, the companies collaborated to discover and develop mono-specific and...

Sinopharm signs with Bangladesh to jointly produce COVID-19 vaccines

Chinese pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm has signed an agreement with Bangladesh over the co-production of COVID-19 inactivated vaccines.  Five million vaccines will be finished and dispensed monthly in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka if everything goes to plan. The chairman of Sinopharm,...

Seagen and RemeGen enter up to $2.6bn deal for cancer drug

Seagen and a Chinese company, RemeGen, have signed an exclusive global licencing agreement to develop and market a new HER2-targeted antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), disitamab vedotin. Merging Seagen’s drug-linker technology with RemeGen’s new HER2 antibody, disitamab vedotin selectively carries the anti-cancer...

Heraeus completes multi-million Euro cancer therapy API capacity expansion

Heraeus Pharmaceutical Ingredients’ additional production line for Platinum-based highly potent active pharmaceutical ingredients (Pt hAPIs) is now fully operational at the company’s headquarters in Hanau, Germany. Heraeus, a business line of Heraeus Precious Metals, is the leading global market supplier...

Next Generation Automation Lab Achieves Huge Productivity Gains

Eli Lilly and Company and their industry partners, including sample management specialists – Ziath, are speeding the discovery of new medicines through the fully automated Lilly Life Sciences Studio (L2S2) lab in San Diego, USA. L2S2 was set up as...

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