01-Feb-2012 - Encap Drug Delivery has won a contract manufacturing deal for a European licensed liquid-filled capsule product after the owner parted from its current CMO.
01-Feb-2012 - Cytovance Biologics has added a 1,000L bioreactor at its Oklahoma site to support scale-up as clients move through clinical trials.
30-Jan-2012 - HUYA Bioscience says it will strengthen bonds between Chinese drug innovators and worldwide developers and through its new partnership with the Tianjin Institute of Pharmaceutical Research (TIPR).
26-Jan-2012 - Outsourcing-Pharma presents a round-up of the latest headlines within the world of contract manufacturing. Catalent and Patheon have each launched oral dosage partnership news, whilst Frontage and AMPAC have received regulatory go-aheads.
25-Jan-2012 - A patent loss-fuelled surge in big pharma outsourcing will push the European CMO market through the $20bn barrier by 2018, analysis claims.
23-Jan-2012 - UK-based Polytherics has acquired Warwick Effect Polymers (WEP) to expand biologic drug modification offering.
18-Jan-2012 - CMO Paragon Bioservices has won a $15m DoD contract to develop a large-scale mammalian process for a trivalent filovirus vaccine.
18-Jan-2012 - VivoPharm says its new agreement with primary patient-derived tumour creators EPO-GmbH will bring drug candidate selection to a “new level” for US drug researchers.
05-Jan-2012 - Biopharm companies have inked a raft of contract service deals at the start of 2012 in efforts to push compounds into the clinic.
22-Dec-2011 - Electroporation is the wave of the future for transdermal drug delivery, according to Parexel’s Ravi Harapanhalli.
20-Dec-2011 - Patheon posted a fourth quarter operating loss as costs related to restructuring offset an uptick in revenues.
13-Dec-2011 - Quotient has stressed the importance of screening prototype formulations early in the development process to ensure efficient drug delivery in later phases.
14-Nov-2011 - Patheon is considering buying unique drug delivery technologies to expand its development service capabilities.
09-Nov-2011 - Icon has formed a strategic alliance with Empire Genomics as part of its first steps into the field of personalised medicines.
07-Nov-2011 - Catalent is considering acquisitions as it adds scale, drug delivery technologies and capacity in emerging markets.
03-Nov-2011 - Injectable drug delivery systems maker West has struck a new joint venture with Vetter to provide source filled Daikyo Crystal Zenith syringes.
31-Oct-2011 - Outsourcing-Pharma presents a roundup of news and views shared by exhibitors and attendees at AAPS and CPhI.
31-Oct-2011 - CMO Aenova says demand for contract manufacturing capacity in Europe is increasing.
27-Oct-2011 - Almac is to expand its pharmaceutical development services with the creation of a new facility at its headquarters in Craigavon, Northern Ireland.
26-Oct-2011 - Effectively outsourcing a significant portion of work will give biopharm a competitive advantage in 2020, KPMG said.
20-Oct-2011 - Novel drug formulations specialists Bend Research will receive manufacturing manpower from Hovione, after inking a nonexclusive agreement.
20-Oct-2011 - VaxyGen is working with Georgia State University (GSU) to offer protein purification, optimisation and production services.
18-Oct-2011 - Angel Biotechnology is negotiating a joint-venture with a Russian firm that would see it add dedicated production space at a UK site.
13-Oct-2011 - A Senate report has slammed the ACRO-backed overseas profit tax break for doing more to help execs’ pay packets than US employment.
06-Oct-2011 - Akorn is to expand its CMO business into India and add sterile injectables capabilities by acquiring five manufacturing plants.