Digitalization as a Strategic Lever in R&D
Digital Innovation: a key driver of competitiveness and sustainability across the pharmaceutical industry.
Pharma
Biopharma Innovation: From Bold Idea to Delivered Product
Biopharma has never lacked ambition. The gap has always been between scientific promise and a product on a shelf. That's exactly where the most consequential innovation is happening now.
Trusted Evidence in the Age of AI
AI in pharma has moved past the hype cycle and into implementation. The organizations that pull ahead won't have the most sophisticated models — they'll have the strongest evidence foundation underneath them.
Digital Twins for the Pharma Supply Chain
The key to effective demand & supply planning in the pharmaceutical industry
Elevating AI-Driven Discovery: Simplifying Complexity with CDD Vault
Drug discovery generates enormous amounts of data, but turning it into meaningful insight is a major challenge.
Pharma 4.0: Big Promises, Poor Data - What’s Going Wrong?
Pharma 4.0 is high on every strategic agenda. Yet many struggle to turn digital ambitions into measurable results. Projects stall, systems don’t align, and valuable insights remain locked in fragmented data structures.
Closing the Gap Between Lab and Production
Shorter development cycles and complex active ingredients are demanding integrated solutions. Guided by the principle "Together – from lab to production," Fette Compacting positions its R&D Solutions as a partnership.
From Catalogue to Collaboration: Enamine’s 35 Years of Advancing Drug Discovery
Marking 35 years of innovation, Enamine has grown from a regional supplier into one of the world's leading compound and service providers.
Lonza Issues License to Antharis Therapeutics for ADCs
Lonza and Antharis Therapeutics announced an exclusive, target-specific licensing agreement to develop novel dual-payload ADCs targeting gastrointestinal (GI) cancers.
Recipharm Expands US Sterile Fill and Finish Capabilities
Recipharm announced a multi-million-dollar investment in its US operations, strengthening its ability to support pharma and biotech companies with advanced sterile fill and finish services.
Chiesi Group Acquires KalVista Pharmaceuticals for $1.9 Billion
Chiesi Group has completed its acquisition of KalVista Pharmaceuticals, marking the Italian biopharmaceutical group's largest deal to date.
Siegfried Inaugurates Pharma API plant in Minden
Siegfried has inaugurated a new large-scale API production facility at its German site in Minden.
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Predictive Simulation in Pharma Production
Simulation Unlocks Capacity, Boosts Reliability, Drives Smarter Decisions
GSK Strikes $10.6 Billion Deal for Nuvalent in One of Pharma's Biggest Oncology Acquisitions of 2026
GSK has agreed to acquire US clinical-stage oncology specialist Nuvalent for $10.6 billion, its largest deal in years, to accelerate entry into lung cancer and boost growth through the dolutegravir patent cliff.
Axplora Repositions European Site on High-Potency Drugs as India Takes Over UDCA Production
Axplora is repositioning its Italian Farmabios site on high-potency APIs as UDCA production moves to its FDA-approved Vizag facility in India, consolidating supply and scaling for global demand.
Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim Cancel Investments
A clear signal to Berlin: the pharmaceutical companies Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim are canceling planned investments in Germany.
Sygnature Discovery Collaborates with DaltonTx to Advance AI-enabled Drug Discovery
Sygnature Discovery has partnered with AI firm DaltonTx to sharpen its drug discovery pipeline, bringing faster medicinal chemistry decisions and tighter data privacy to its CRO offering.
Northway Biotech Invests €61 Million in Vilnius Cell Therapy Manufacturing Center
Northway Biotech is finalizing the Baltic region's most advanced cell therapy center — a 3,500 m² facility at Vilnius City Innovation Industrial Park, set to open Q3 2025.
Capillary Electrophoresis in Biotherapeutic Development: Platform Methods, Fragment Workflows, and ADC Characterization
Precise, reproducible, and regulatory-ready: CE-based methods are redefining how scientists characterize therapeutic mAbs and ADCs across the biotherapeutic development pipeline.
Asahi Kasei Life Science Licenses Novel ADC Technology From The Noguchi Institute
Asahi Kasei Life Science has acquired the license rights for a novel antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) technology from The Noguchi Institute.
CordenPharma Acquires AmbioPharm to Expand Peptide API Capacity
Acquisition strengthens US peptide manufacturing capabilities and broadens global expertise in complex peptide APIs
Catalent and Elpida Therapeutics Join Forces for Gene Therapy Scale-Up
Catalent partners with non-profit Elpida Therapeutics to support late-phase AAV manufacturing for a rare neurological gene therapy, securing exclusive rights across Elpida's broader AAV pipeline.
Hongene Backs SiranBio's RNAi Pipeline with Advanced CDMO Support
Hongene Biotech delivers end-to-end CDMO services for SiranBio's dual-target siRNA hepatitis B candidate, from raw materials through cGMP manufacturing, highlighting its capabilities in oligonucleotide therapeutics.
Bristol Myers Squibb Bolsters Oncology Pipeline with Lonza Licensing Agreement
Bristol Myers Squibb licenses Lonza's SYNtecan linker-payload platform to advance an undisclosed ADC target, with Lonza eligible for upfront payments, milestones and royalties on resulting products.
Piramal Pharma Solutions Expands CDMO Capabilities at Michigan Facility
Piramal Pharma Solutions opens a new payload-linker suite in Michigan as part of a $90 million US investment plan, bolstering its ADC manufacturing capabilities across sites in Riverview and Lexington.
Symeres Appoints Henning Steinhagen as CEO
Symeres, a transatlantic CRDMO for drug discovery and development, announced the appointment of Henning Steinhagen as Chief Executive Officer.
Takeda Invests in Climate-Neutral Energy Supply
Takeda has officially commissioned a new photovoltaic system at its production site in Oranienburg near Berlin.
Mastering Modified Release: The Pellet-Based Approach
Explore how pellet-based systems can de-risk development and scale-up of robust modified-release formulations across the product lifecycle.
Siegfried Secures Antitrust Green Light for US and Australia Drug‑Substance Site Takeover
All closing conditions satisfied for the acquisition of three small molecule sites in the US and Australia; closing to occur as of May 1, 2026. Adds highly demanded US-based manufacturing capacity to Siegfried's network.
Resilience by Design: How Leaders Prepare Supply Chains for an Evolving Landscape
In this CHEManager Leaders & Motivators interview, Frank Romanski, Lonza Capsugel, reflects on how strategy becomes execution and what resilience demands from teams,
India’s CDMO Strength: Powering Global Chemical Innovation
India’s CDMO sector is rapidly advancing: stronger R&D, complex chemistry, digitalization, and efficiency gains. Astec boosts this with new R&D centers, automation, and global‑standard operations.
AbbVie Selects North Carolina for New $1.4 Billion Manufacturing Campus
The investment, its largest since its inception, demonstrates continued progress against AbbVie's $100 billion commitment to US R&D and capital investments, including manufacturing, over the next decade.
Evonik Invests €80 Million in Slovakia
Evonik is expanding its biotechnological production capacities at the Fermas site in Slovenská Ľupča with an investment of around €80 million
Asahi Kasei Completes Acquisition of Aicuris, Expands Antiviral Assets
Asahi Kasei has completed its acquisition of Germany’s Aicuris, adding three antiviral assets, in a deal previously reported at about €780 million.
Gilead to Acquire Tubulis, Strengthing Oncology Pipeline
Acquisition includes industry-leading ADC platform, its clinically-validated tubutecan linker-payload technology, and next-generation platform to expand Gilead’s ADC capabilities.
Farmindustria
Helsinn Chemicals SA
gempex GmbH – THE GMP-EXPERT
Datamonitor Group
CordenPharma International
Packaging Coordinators, Inc.
Wiley-VCH
Mack Brooks Exhibition Ltd – Part of RX
Abzena
Ofichem Group
Hovione
A.T. Kearney GmbH
CHEManager International c/o Wiley-VCH GmbH
Camelot Management Consultants AG
PM Group
Godrej Astec LifeSciences Limited (Astec Life)
Accenture
Iktos AI
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
RX Trace
Miebach Consulting GmbH
ACG
LGC Group
BASF SE
Rentschler Biopharma SE
Samsung Biologics
Cambrex Corporation
ISPE D/A/CH e.V.
Scienceindustries - Wirtschaftsverband Chemie Pharma Life Sciences
Arthur D. Little
Thomson Reuters
Clariant International Ltd
Merck KGaA
Veeva Systems
INOSIM GmbH
AsymBio
EMG The European Marketing Group BV
Datamonitor Group
Roquette
Alkermes
Forma Life Sciences
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Eli Lilly and Company
KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsges.
Adragos Pharma
Zeta GmbH
UBM Live
PureTech Systems
Prange Pharma
Enamine Ltd.