Charles River is set to acquire Citoxlab for €448m ($510m) in cash, a deal which would bolster the CRO’s safety assessment portfolio to support its long-term organic growth aspirations, says CEO.
Ligand Pharmaceuticals enters an agreement with Genagon to provide access to its drug development platform capable of producing fully human antibodies.
Backed by a private equity investment, Taconic Biosciences is focusing on its growth strategy, with plans to add capacity, pursue acquisitions, and develop new products, says the company’s new CEO.
People on the move in January include new CEOs at Lonza, Taconic, MaSTherCell, Pii, and Wasdell, among several other c-suite shakeups and new hires as the industry kicks off the New Year.
QPS is expanding ‘aggressively’ at its US-based headquarters, rebuilding on a rolling basis to support a growing demand for gene therapy treatments, says VP.
Aetion aims to advance the adoption of and standards for real-world evidence backed by a strategic investment from several global biopharma and health care companies.
Charles River is offering Toxys’ ToxTracker in an agreement that will see its portfolio of genetic toxicology assays expand to customers in North America.
Real world evidence extraction is one area where Sanofi is using NLP text mining, a technology with applications across the R&D pipeline, from target identification to clinical trial design and pharmacovigilance.
Amsbio is adding experimental cell lines to its CAR-T cell services to meet an increasing demand for the technology, according to the UK-based provider.
