15-Sep-2010 - Pall has ended fiscal 2010 with strong set of sales after recovering pharmaceutical industry demand for bioproduction tech maintained its momentum in Q4
15-Sep-2010 - Q Chip is using new funding to scale up its Q-Sphera technology for cGMP production of sustained release peptide and protein therapeutics.
14-Sep-2010 - Industrial catalysis firm WR Grace moves for struggling Synthetech to boost pharmaceutical intermediates and chiral chemistry offering.
07-Sep-2010 - Extension of a production site in Shanghai is a small part of the big aspirations Thermo has for China and Asia Pacific.
02-Sep-2010 - US formulation services provider Bend Research has received a new patent for the process of producing spray-dried solid amorphous dispersions of drugs using single-fluid pressure nozzles.
02-Sep-2010 - Boehringer Ingelheim has opened its ‘Centre of Competence’ (CoC) in Shanghai to optimise API and chemical intermediates sourcing in China.
02-Sep-2010 - iBio, CMB and GE Healthcare are collaborating on developing and marketing biopharm production systems, including plant-based expression technology.
01-Sep-2010 - Prosonix has launched a co-crytsallisation service for the production of APIs for inhalable drugs and oral medicines.
01-Sep-2010 - NanGenex is introducing GMP bench-top and pilot plant reactors to scale-up its process for the continuous production of nanostructured active ingredients.
31-Aug-2010 - SK Chemicals hopes Xcellerex’ manufacturing technology will boost vaccine production business.
31-Aug-2010 - Cell culture, LAIV vaccines and recombinant DNA technology should be supported by the US government as part of a long-term overhaul of pandemic response capabilities, according to PCAST.
26-Aug-2010 - Mtech Bioprocess is to double scale-up square footage and staff to support Maryland, US biotechs’ non-GMP production work.
25-Aug-2010 - A review of US capabilities has concluded that the time to produce a pandemic vaccine could be halved through adoption of short-term policies.
23-Aug-2010 - The US HHS is allocating $2bn (€1.6bn) to overhaul pandemic and bioterrorism capabilities through improvements to regulatory, developmental and manufacturing processes.
23-Aug-2010 - Mettler Toledo’s new in-line granulation monitoring tech may make in-process particle characterisation less of a grind.
18-Aug-2010 - CardioGenics predicts yield boosting “biologics beads” will change the antibody extraction landscape after signing distribution deal with Merck Chimie.
17-Aug-2010 - Bioprocess purification chromatography tech wins BAC new deal after Swiss protein maker Octapharma licenses it for commercial-scale manufacture.
12-Aug-2010 - BARDA is providing the WHO with $6.4m (€5.0m) to cooperatively develop influenza vaccine production capacity in under-resourced nations.
11-Aug-2010 - Medicago is to build a 90,000 sq ft cGMP vaccine facility in RTP, North Carolina, US using a $21m (€16.1m) grant from the US Department of Defense.
05-Aug-2010 - Cel-Sci’s recently opened “Cold fill” facility has passed its first manufacturing test by completing filling of a batch of the candidate head and neck cancer drug Multikine for a late-stage trial.
04-Aug-2010 - Pfenex has won a US federal contract to use its expression technology for the rapid, cost-effective production of “unprecedented” amounts of anthrax vaccine.
02-Aug-2010 - Cancer Research UK has established a £18m ($28.4m) biopharm manufacturing unit to produce complex experimental drugs, such as monoclonal antibodies.
02-Aug-2010 - Heinkel expands pharmaceutical filtering and drying systems business with acquisition of Italian equipment maker Comber.
29-Jul-2010 - ATMI completes expansion at US bioprocess tech plant days after citing life science business growth as an important part of its second quarter gains.
28-Jul-2010 - Cellexus has expanded its disposable bioreactor offering with a unit designed to give biomanufacturers greater flexibility in their choice of cell lines.