12.03.2018
- A cancer detection startup backed by US billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates as well as China’s biggest Internet company Tencent Holdings and several pharmaceutical companies is...
04.03.2018
- MedImmune, the biologics R&D arm of Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca, is spinning out six molecules from its early-stage inflammation and autoimmunity programs into new...
02.03.2018
- Sanofi has received all the necessary regulatory approvals for its planned €3.9 billion takeover of Belgian biotech Ablynx. The deal was announced on Jan. 29. The next step is to...
28.02.2018
- To support the growing demand for biopharmaceutical manufacturing capability in Asia, German pharmaceuticals and chemicals producer Merck plans to increase its spending on...
27.02.2018
- Contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) Lonza said it exceeded its full-year 2017 guidance. The company reported sales of CHF 5.1 billion. Having closed the...
26.02.2018
- US drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb has struck a deal worth $3.6 billion with biotech Nektar Therapeutics to jointly develop and commercialize the latter’s lead anticancer molecule –...
22.02.2018
- US grain merchant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) and Swiss agrochemicals group Syngenta have settled a lawsuit over Syngenta’s launch of a biotech corn strain that had negative...
12.02.2018
- Janssen Biotech, part of pharma and consumer goods giant Johnson & Johnson, has entered into a global development and commercialization agreement with Theravance Biopharma Ireland...
07.02.2018
- Swiss contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) Celonic has completed the acquisition of Glycotope’s bio-manufacturing facility in Heidelberg, Germany. Berlin...
29.01.2018
- US biotech Genomatica has signed a multi-year agreement with Italian nylon producer Aquafil to create sustainable caprolactam. The two companies aim to develop Genomatica’s GENO...
