23.04.2018
- UK biotech Orchard Therapeutics has acquired GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) portfolio of approved and investigational rare disease gene therapies. The deal will see GSK take a 19.9%...
18.04.2018
- French drugmaker Sanofi has confirmed market speculation that it is talking to Advent International about a sale of its European generics division, which trades as Zentiva. The...
17.04.2018
- For the global specialty chemicals sector, the past two years have been among the most exciting of the young millennium. Many mergers and acquisitions were in the spotlight in 2017...
17.04.2018
- Swiss fine chemicals producer and pharmaceutical industry supplier Lonza has opened what it said is the world's largest dedicated cell and gene therapy center at Pearland, near...
11.04.2018
- In an all-cash deal expected to close in the second half of this year, Swiss drugs giant Novartis has agreed to pay $8.7 billion for AveXis, a US-based clinical stage gene therapy...
03.04.2018
- Petroleum is a limited resource and if we keep using it global warming will accelerate. Since this realization has filtered in the quest for alternatives has begun. Shale gas and...
30.03.2018
- With a market value of $62 billion in 2016, the contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) industry has a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6-7 %, according to...
30.03.2018
- Biotechnology encompasses a broad range of technologies that employ living organisms or parts of them to make diverse products. For example, drugs and therapeutics, nutritional...
17.03.2018
- David Estapé, a long-time biotechnology expert who holds a doctorate in chemical engineering and has 22 years of experience, will join CRB Group as Technology Manager Biotechnology...
16.03.2018
- ABL Europe has successfully increased and brought online new viral vector manufacturing capacity at its European facility in Strasbourg. A subsidiary of ABL Inc., ABL Europe has...