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CMO Moves: Regulatory Catalysts for Drug Manufacturing-November

Pharmaceutical Technology

Each month, Pharmaceutical Technology takes a look at recent decisions taken by regulatory and reimbursement agencies and identifies the key manufacturing players that can be impacted by them. The monoclonal antibody (mAb) is already approved for treating paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria in children and adolescents. NICE decisions.

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Outsourcing Biologics Fill Finish Manufacturing : Streamlining the Production Process for Biopharmaceutical Companies

Roots Analysis

These complex entities, such as antibodies, antibody drug conjugates, cell therapies, gene therapies, and therapeutic proteins, are highly specific molecules that are designed to precisely target biomarkers associated with a particular disease pathway.

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Covid-19 Omicron boosters will reinvigorate injectables manufacturing

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pfizer (New York, New York) and Moderna’s (Cambridge, Massachusetts) Omicron-specific Covid-19 vaccines are in late-stage development, have demonstrated good efficacy against the variant and will likely be available to the public later this year to provide an additional booster and increase demand for injectable manufacturing.

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Chinese manufacturers’ transition to innovative pharma requires more investment

Pharmaceutical Technology

It is therefore to be expected that there are a far greater number of Chinese sites for API manufacturing for FDA and EMA innovator and biosimilar drugs than for dose manufacturing and packaging. The majority of FDA and EMA innovator and biosimilar marketed drugs produced by Chinese sites are small molecules.

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Regeneron Reports Third Quarter 2020 Financial and Operating Results

The Pharma Data

Lastly, we are proud that our novel antibody cocktail REGN-EB3 recently became the first FDA-approved treatment for Ebola, underscoring the potential of antibody therapies to address deadly infectious diseases.” REGN-COV2 , a dual antibody therapy to SARS-CoV-2 virus. Evinacumab , an antibody to ANGPTL3.

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Shot of a Lifetime: How Two Pfizer Manufacturing Plants Upscaled to Produce the COVID-19 Vaccine in Record Time

Pfizer

The teams started changing existing filling lines, building formulations booths and new filling lines, constructing packaging lines and a “freezer farm,” while recruiting and training new colleagues. All those were investments at risk, that’s the bet we took,” says Van Steenwinkel. Adding flexibility and increasing volume has been key.

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Future trends: biopharma to outpace small molecule drug development  

Drug Discovery World

Biopharma drug development will outpace traditional small molecule drug development In 1993 a collaboration between BASF and Cambridge Antibody Technology developed a compound initially named D2E7 that was the first fully human monoclonal antibody approved by the FDA.