Friday, October 12, 2018 Daily Archives

Genmab on CMO use: ‘Keep brains inhouse, hands outside’

Genmab says it chooses to outsource all its biomanufacturing having previously had its fingers burnt buying a facility in Minnesota, now owned by Takeda. In early 2013, Danish drugmaker Genmab A/S sold its non-plasma-derived antibody manufacturing facility in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, to Baxter Healthcare Corporation for $10 million (€8.7 million). The 215,000 square-foot plant housed 22,000 L of mammalian cell culture bioreactor capacity, and was originally acquired by Genmab from PDL BioPharma in 2008 at a cost of $240 million.…

Biosimilar round-up: Deal-breaking, approvals, and patents

Mundipharma acquires Cinfa; Sandoz resolves dispute with AbbVie; FDA favours Celltrion and Teva’s rituximab. Welcome to the heady world of biosimilars. First up is an acquisition in the biosimilars space, with Cambridge, UK-based Mundipharma bolstering its portfolio through the purchase of Spanish drugmaker Cinfa Biotech. Financial have not been divulged, but Mundipharma gains immediate access to Pelmeg, a biosimilar which is looking to take a slice of the global $4.5 billion pegfilgrastim market. Pelmeg received recommendation for approval on September…