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AbbVie breaks ground on new $195-M API manufacturing facility AbbVie has announced the start of construction of a new $195-million active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing plant in North Chicago, Illinois. The…

Merck & Co. has completed its $10-billion acquisition of Verona Pharma, a bio/pharmaceutical company focused on respiratory diseases, for $10 billion. The deal was announced in July 2025.  Through this…

Novo Nordisk has agreed to acquire Akero Therapeutics, a South San Franciso, California-based clinical-stage bio/pharma company focused on metabolic diseases, including metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), in a deal worth up…

The latest from CDMOs, CMOs, and suppliers featuring Thermo Fisher Scientific, Lonza, Cytiva, MilliporeSigma, Oxford Biomedica, National Resilience, Siegfried, Celonic, Carbogen Amcis, Asimov, Made Scientific, Syenex, Symbiosis, and Afton Scientific.  …

In the race to deliver medicines faster, the industry’s next leap forward is being built—literally—at the ground floor of development and manufacturing. At the DCAT Summit at Lugano, “Expedition Pharma:…

GSK has announced that Luke Miels, current Chief Commercial Officer at GSK, has been appointed CEO Designate, succeeding Emma Walmsley, who will step down as CEO, effective at the end…

Amgen has announced a $650-million expansion of the company’s biologics manufacturing facility in Juncos, Puerto Rico, the latest of a series of investments in the US.   In September (September 2025),…

AbbVie has announced the start of construction of a $70-million expansion at the AbbVie Bioresearch Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, which serves as a center of excellence for biologics research and…

Halozyme Therapeutics, a San Diego, California-based bio/pharmaceutical company, has agreed to acquire Elektrofi, a bio/pharmaceutical company with a microparticle technology for biologics, in a deal worth up to $900 million…

The latest from CDMOs, CMOs, and suppliers featuring Catalent, Laboratorios Farmacéuticos Rovi, Veranova, Aptar, Rezon Bio, Ansa Biotechnologies and NextPharma.   General * Catalent Opens New Global HQ in Tampa, FloridaBiologics Manufacturing *…