Novartis Leads Drug Approval News
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A roundup of the latest drug approvals, including from the pharmaceutical majors, featuring news from Novartis. Editor’s Note: This article was updated on a continuous basis for news announced from Wednesday…

Medigene, bluebird bio Expand Immunotherapy Pact
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Medigene, a Martinsried, Germany-based biotechnology company focused on personalized T-cell-based immunotherapies, has expanded its strategic alliance with bluebird bio, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based clinical-stage gene therapy company, for research and development…

Lilly To Acquire Oncology Company AurKa Pharma for up to $575 Million
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Eli Lilly and Company has agreed to acquire AurKa Pharma, a Montreal, Quebec-based special-purpose company created to develop an oncology drug that it previously acquired from Lilly, in a deal…

Amneal, Impax Close Merger; To Close California Manufacturing Facilities
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Amneal Pharmaceuticals, a Bridgewater, New Jersey generic-drug manufacturer and Impax Laboratories, a Hayward, California-based specialty pharmaceutical company, have closed on their previously announced business combination. Following the close of the…

Eli Lilly To Acquire Cancer Immunotherapy Company ARMO BioSciences for $1.6 Billion
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Eli Lilly and Company has agreed to acquire ARMO BioSciences, a Redwood City, California-based pharmaceutical company focused on immuno-oncology, for $50 per share, or approximately $1.6 billion, in an all-cash…

Aurobindo Recalls 1.5 Million Bags For Issues of Sterility Assurance
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Auromedics Pharma, a Princeton, New Jersey-based subsidiary of Aurobindo Pharma, a Hyderabad, India-headquartered generics and active pharmaceutical ingredients manufacturer, has voluntarily initiated a recall in the US of 1.5 million…

AMRI Launches Aseptic API Line
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AMRI, a contract research, development, and manufacturing organization, has launched a new multipurpose aseptic active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) line at the company’s facility in Valladolid, Spain. The line, which was…

Aspen Pharma Opens $80-Million High-Potency Manufacturing Facility
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Aspen Pharmacare, a KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa-headquartered pharmaceutical company, has opened a 1-billion rand ($80-million) high-containment drug-product manufacturing facility in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The 23,000-square-meter facility has been audited by…

UK CAR-T Therapy Startup Autolus Files for $100 Million IPO
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Autolus Therapeutics, a London-headquartered clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapies with a semi-automated manufacturing process, has filed a registration statement with the US Securities and…

FDA Issues New Draft Guidance on Exemptions from the Drug Supply Chain Security Act
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued draft guidance, Waivers, Exceptions, and Exemptions from the Requirements of Section 582 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, to specify…