US drugmaker Eli Lilly has acquired Protomer Technologies, strengthening its diabetes portfolio. The deal gives Lilly full control over the privately held US biotech...
Germany’s BioNTech, best known publicly for the Covid-19 vaccine Comirnaty it developed in partnership with US drugs giant Pfizer, has announced plans to buy a cell...
The bark of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) evidently is worse than its bite – which in the case of AstraZeneca’s $39 billion acquisition of Alexion was...
In the aftermath of a far-reaching mix-up of Astra Zeneca’s Covid vaccine ingredients with those of Johnson & Johnson’s shot, US CDMO Emergent BioSolutions not only has...
Definitive results from CureVac’s 40,000-subject international Phase 2b/3 trial with its mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine candidate, CVnCoV, have confirmed an earlier finding...
French drugmaker Sanofi plans to invest around €400 million annually in a center of excellence for mRNA vaccines that it hopes will accelerate the development and...
Lonza is investing 20 million Swiss francs in an expansion of its API development and manufacturing facility at Nansha, China. The Basel-based CDMO said the expanded...
US science and technology group Danaher has agreed to pay $9.6 billion to buy Aldevron, a compatriot contract developer and manufacturer of biologics for the...
South Korea-based CDMO SK Bioscience, with cash in hand from an initial public offering, has announced plans to pour 150 billion won ($132 million) into vaccine...
The European Commission’s attempt to hold AstraZeneca (AZ) responsible for the delayed and truncated supply of its Covid-19 vaccine appears to have not produced the...