December 2, 2021

Sanofi has announced that it entered into an agreement to acquire Origimm Biotechnology, an Austrian privately owned biotechnology company specialising in the discovery of virulent skin microbiome components and antigens from bacteria causing skin disease, such as acne. The transaction […]

December 2, 2021

The Japanese drugmaker is paying $18 million upfront to exercise an option on the AAV platform – which my help avoid safety issues that have emerged with other AAV-based gene therapies – with milestone and royalty payments that could exceed […]

December 2, 2021

Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that it is working with Pfizer to create innovative, cloud-based solutions with the potential to improve how new medicines are developed, manufactured, and distributed for testing in […]

December 1, 2021

Merger and acquisition activity has been rather slow in the biopharma industry so far this year. But, by one team of analysts’ calculations, large drugmakers will have big piles of cash to deploy in 2022. Eighteen large-cap U.S. and European […]

December 1, 2021

Johnson & Johnson has lost its global head, cell therapy platform and discovery. Tamas Oravecz, Ph.D., took up the post at J&J’s Janssen earlier this year, only to leave to become chief scientific officer at the newly minted cancer biotech […]

December 1, 2021

The first peer-reviewed study in North America examining the timing between the first and second doses of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines shows that a longer dose interval leads to a stronger immune response. The study is funded by the Government of […]