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The latest news on mergers and acquisitions featuring Roche/89Bio,  Zentiva, Bausch Health/Durect and. Highlights below.  * Roche To Acquire 89Bio To Up MASH Portfolio in $3.5-Bn-Deal* Private Equity Firm To…

A roundup of news from Novartis, Takeda, Biocon, Lundbeck and Mabwell Bioscience. Highlights below.   Mfg News * Biocon Opens Expanded US Solid Dosage Mfg Facility Partnering News * Novartis, Monte Rosa in $5.7-Bn…

Novartis has agreed to acquire Tourmaline Bio, a New York-based clinical-stage bio/pharmaceutical company, for $1.4 billion.  Tourmaline’s lead candidate is pacibekitug, an anti-IL-6 monoclonal antibody as a treatment option for…

Eli Lilly and Company has announced the launch of Lilly TuneLab, an artificial intelligence and machine-learning (AI/ML) platform that provides biotech companies access to drug discovery models trained on Lilly’s…

Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna have each respectively received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for their supplemental biologics license applications for their LP.8.1-adapted COVID vaccines. The companies reported the approvals…

The latest from CDMOs, CMOs, and suppliers featuring Enzene, Experic, Made Scientific, Bora Pharmaceuticals, Made Scientific, Nusano, Quotient Sciences, Aenova and GXP Storage.   Chemicals/Chemical API Manufacturing * Nusano Opens Radioisotope Production…

A roundup of news from Merck KGaA and Servier/Kaerus Bioscience. Highlights below.   Appointments * Merck KGaA Names New Head of R&D for Healthcare Sector M&A News * Servier To Acquire Autism Drug from…

Roche’s Genentech has broken ground on a new US manufacturing site in Holly Springs, North Carolina, Genentech’s first manufacturing facility on the East Coast. The 65,000-square-meter facility is designed to…

Amgen has announced plans to invest more than $600 million in a new center for science and innovation at its global headquarters in Thousand Oaks, California. Construction of the facility…

Gilead Sciences has broken ground on a new pharmaceutical development and manufacturing technical development center at the company’s Foster City, California, headquarters. The investment is part of Gilead’s planned $32-billion…