Ajinomoto acquires US firm Althea

Contract Manufacturing |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 07 Mar, 2013

Singapore: Japan-headquartered Ajinomoto has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Althea Technologies, a US-based provider of biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing servi...Read more

Pfizer testing unit to move to Singapore

Contract Manufacturing |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 15 Jun, 2012

Pfizer's 20-person surveillance testing group located in Groton will be relocating to Singapore in 2013. The surveillance testing group is a part of the company's Scientific Laboratory Serv...Read more

India's Biological E to buy French Valneva's CMO unit

Contract Manufacturing |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 11 Jun, 2013

Singapore: France-based biotech firm Valneva is selling its clinical manufacturing operations (CMO) in Nantes to India-based Biological E. The sale of this unit, which is dedicated to the ...Read more

ImaginAb, Singapore Radiopharmaceuticals sign agreement

Contract Manufacturing |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 08 Aug, 2012

Singapore: ImaginAb, a developer of in vivo molecular imaging agents based on its proprietary antibody fragment platform, has signed a master service agreement (MSA) with Singapore Radiopha...Read more

WuXi PharmaTech board member steps down

Contract Manufacturing |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 09 Jul, 2014

Singapore: Ms Ying Han, member of board of WuXi PharmaTech, has stepped down from the company. WuXi PharmaTech is China based global contract R&D services provider serving the pharmace...Read more

WuXi's subsidiary gets manufacturing nod in Japan

Contract Manufacturing |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 28 Aug, 2015

Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech's small-molecule process development and manufacturing subsidiary Shanghai SynTheAll Pharmaceutical has received its first approval from the Japan PMDA for the ma...Read more

WuXi's API manufacturing passes FDA inspection

Contract Manufacturing |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 19 Aug, 2014

Singapore: China-based WuXiPharmaTech, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device research and development outsourcing company, has succesfully passed the US Food and Drug Administrat...Read more

Biovest to spin off CMO business

Contract Manufacturing |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 16 Mar, 2016

Singapore: Biovest International has decided to spin off its instrument and contract manufacturing offerings into a single wholly-owned subsidiary named Cell Culture Company. Cell Culture ...Read more

Marck products get approval in South Africa

Contract Manufacturing |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 09 Jan, 2013

Mumbai: Marck Biosciences, an Indian manufacturer and marketer of sterile dosages and Blow-Fill-Seal (BFS) specialist, was granted approval by the South African Medicines Control Council fo...Read more

WuXi Life Science to acquire WuXi PharmaTech for around $3.3 bn

Contract Manufacturing |  Company results | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 17 Aug, 2015

Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech, research and technology platform company serving the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries with operations in China and the United States,...Read more

Astellas sells Kiyosu Plant business to MicroBiopharm Japan

Contract Manufacturing |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 02 Nov, 2015

Tokyo: Pharma giant Astellas Pharma Inc. has announced that the company and MicroBiopharm Japan Co. Ltd. (MBJ) have concluded an agreement, under which the business of Kiyosu Plant (Kiyosu-...Read more

Taiwan, China firms enter contract research alliance

Contract Manufacturing |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 12 Aug, 2013

Singapore: Taiwan-based ScinoPharm (Changshu) Pharmaceuticals and Shanghai-based Sundia MediTech entered in a strategic alliance to seek more opportunities for collaboration on contract res...Read more

Singapore regulatory grants cGMP certificate to Lonza

Contract Manufacturing |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 21 Apr, 2014

Singapore: Biologics manufacturing global firm, Lonza Bioscience, has received cGMP certification from Singapore Health Sciences Authority (HSA). The audit/conformity assessment, performed...Read more

Evotec acquires Sanofi's drug discovery site

Contract Manufacturing |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 04 Dec, 2014

Singapore: German firm Evotec has acquired Sanofi's drug discovery operation in Toulouse to build an European centre of excellence for compound management and drug discovery services. Evot...Read more

Irvine Pharma to set up manufacturing facility in China

Contract Manufacturing |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 04 Nov, 2014

Singapore: US based Irvine Pharmaceutical Services, a contract manufacturing service provider, plans to open a new facility in Hangzhou, China to support the Asian market. The 115,000 sqft...Read more

Vivo Bio Tech to breed Taconic mouse models in India

Contract Manufacturing |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 07 Feb, 2013

Bangalore: Taconic, a leading provider of life sciences solutions, and Vivo Bio Tech, a full-service contract research organization, have entered into an agreement under which Vivo Bio Tec...Read more

India's Piramal acquires Coldstream Lab in US

Contract Manufacturing |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 20 Jan, 2015

Singapore: India's pharmaceutical company, Piramal Enterprises, has acquired contract development and manufacturing organisation, Coldstream Laboratories, in the US at $30.65 million. Foun...Read more

FUJIFILM expands cell manufacturing capacity

Contract Manufacturing |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 20 Aug, 2014

Singapore: Gobal contract manufacturing firm, FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, has expanded its cell culture manufacturing capabilities with the addition of two 2000L single-use bioreacto...Read more