Valneva, a Saint-Herblain, France-headquartered vaccine company, has entered into an agreement with the UK government to provide up to 190 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, VLA2001, over a…
Novavax Increases Global Mfg Capacity for COVID-19 Vaccine
Novavax, a Gaithersburg, Maryland-based clinical-stage vaccine company, has amended a previous agreement with the Serum Institute of India (SII), a Pune, Maharashtra, India-based vaccine manufacturer, under which SII will produce…
Merck & Co., Seattle Genetics in $4.2-Bn Oncology ADC Pact
Merck & Co. and Seattle Genetics, a Bothell, Washington-headquartered biopharmaceutical company, have formed a collaboration, in a deal worth up to $4.2-billion, for Seattle Genetics’ ladiratuzumab vedotin, an investigational antibody…
Global Pharma Briefs: News from Asia, Europe, and the US
A roundup of news from Germany (Bayer, Recursion), India (Mylan), Spain (Grifols, Alkahest), and the US (Merck KGaA, Pfizer, NKMax America). Germany Bayer, Recursion in AI Drug-Discovery Pact; Bayer Takes…
Pfizer, BioNTech Conclude Talks with EU for Supply of COVID Vaccine
Pfizer and BioNTech, a Mainz, Germany-based immunotherapy company, have concluded exploratory talks with the European Commission for a proposed supply of 200 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine candidate, with…
AbbVie, I-Mab in $1.94-Bn Pact for Immuno-oncology Drug
AbbVie and I-Mab, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Shanghai, have signed a broad, global collaboration agreement, in a deal worth up to $1.94 billion, for the development and commercialization…
A roundup of news from the UK (Takeda, Engitix Therapeutics, Intract Pharma, Celltrion), and the US (Gilead Sciences, Jounce Therapeutics, Mylan, Biocon, and Ionis). UK Takeda, Engitix in $500-M Pact…
Pharma COVID Roundup: News from Moderna, Sanofi, and GSK
The latest on manufacturing and potential treatments for COVID-19 with news from Moderna, Sanofi, GSK, Abbott, Roche, Gilead, Novartis, Daiichi Sankyo, and others. Moderna in Talks to Supply Japan with…
J&J, Novavax in Agreements with Canada To Supply COVID-19 Vaccines
The government of Canada has reached agreements with Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen and Novavax, a Gaithersburg, Maryland-based clinical-stage vaccine company, to supply their respective vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that…
Pharma COVID Roundup: News from Moderna, Novavax, Pfizer, AstraZeneca
The latest on manufacturing and potential treatments and testing for COVID-19 with news from Moderna, Pfizer, Novavax, AstraZeneca, Gilead Sciences, Qiagen, and others. Moderna Concludes Talks for EU Supply Pact…
