Thursday, May 7, 2020 Daily Archives

Pfizer brings aseptic Michigan site into COVID-19 vaccine production mix

by

Pfizer’s sterile injectable facility in Portage, Kalamazoo is among the sites being leveraged to support clinical trials of a COVID-19 vaccine being developed with BioNTech. In April, Pfizer teamed up with German firm BioNTech on its messenger (RNA) vaccine program against COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). A month on, and the candidate BNT162 has entered the clinic with the first US patients being dosed in a Phase I/II trial this week. To support rapid development, Pfizer has stressed…

May 7, 2020

Regeneron clears capacity at NY plant in prep for COVID antibody cocktail

by

Regeneron says depending on trial data it could be producing hundreds of thousands of doses of an antibody cocktail against COVID-19 by the end of summer. Regeneron was one of the first to announce its intentions to develop monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Using its VelociSuite discovery and development technologies and experience garnered to develop its investigational triple antibody cocktail treatment for Ebola REGN-EB3, the firm has is focused on developing a multi-antibody ‘cocktail’…

May 7, 2020

Accelerating Vaccine Development By Innovative Purification Solutions and State of the Art Quality Testing

by

This webcast features: Sirat Sikka and Florian Durst, Field Application Scientists (Purification and Pharma Analytics), Thermo Fisher Scientific The emergence of new diseases and infections has entailed the need for rapid and efficient development of safe and efficacious vaccines. Additionally, no effective vaccines currently exist for long-known pandemic diseases such as HIV or malaria. To address the challenges the vaccine industry faces, new vaccine modalities such as viral vectors, recombinant protein subunits, and nucleic acids are being researched and developed,…

May 7, 2020

Univercells on balancing its bioprocess tech and CDMO subsidiaries

by

Univercells has launched a bioprocess technology subsidiary it says can offer a new generation of biomanufacturing platforms that can solve industry’s manufacturing challenges. It has been a busy few months for Belgium-based biologics platform firm Univercells. In February, global investment firm KKR – through its portfolio of life sciences tools companies Gamma Biosciences – committed €50 million ($54 million) into the firm Univercells. Then last month, the firm launched Exothera, a process development and viral vector contract development and manufacturing…

May 7, 2020