Supply chain, logistics

CSafe launches temperature-controlled packaging for cell therapies

10-Dec-2019 By Vassia Barba

CSafe expands its cold chain offering with a series of logistics services suitable for temperature-controlled shipping of biologics.

Veeva explains rationale for moving deeper into services

02-Dec-2019 By Nick Taylor

Veeva Systems explains reason for moving deeper into services through the acquisition of Physicians World.

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'E-label' packaging to improve patient experience

15-Nov-2019 By Vassia Barba

Sharp’s electronic label for drug packaging can be updated again and again, saving time and costs whilst also improving patient engagement during clinical trials.

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Exothermic reactions at -60°C for continuous API manufacture

11-Nov-2019 By Vassia Barba

Driven by market demand, De Dietrich develops an API production set that enables continuous manufacturing of molecules that require exothermic chemical reactions.

Eversana taps Cornerstone’s research services, expands insights offering

05-Nov-2019 By Vassia Barba

Eversana acquires Cornerstone Research Group with an aim to expand its portfolio of Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR).

Adaptimmune in ‘vein-to-vein’ deal with Cryoport’s SmartPak

15-Oct-2019 By Vassia Barba

Adaptimmune adopts Cryoport’s SmartPak logistic services for shipment of its oncology T-cell therapy candidates, under a three-year agreement.

CSafe inks agreement with LOT Cargo for cold-chain air transport

03-Oct-2019 By Vassia Barba

Partnering with airlines is essential, says CSafe executive, as the company signs an agreement to use LOT Cargo’s to airplanes to transporttemperature-sensitive biologics.

AstraZeneca looks to N-Side for ‘a single source of truth’

01-Oct-2019 By Melissa Fassbender

AstraZeneca is implementing N-Side’s recently launched Suite for Clinical Trials to provide ‘a single source of truth’ for safely supplying trials, as more stakeholders are generating more data.

PCI opens new IL-based center of excellence

26-Sep-2019 By Melissa Fassbender

PCI Pharma Services’ newly expanded Clinical Center of Excellence in Rockford, IL, features an additional 30,000 square feet of space.

Almac joins clinical supply blockchain working group

24-Sep-2019 By Vassia Barba

Almac joins a working group made up of clinical supply chain industry members, in order to contribute to the use case discussion about blockchain technology.

Early manufacturing life-saving for biologics developers, says CMO exec

23-Sep-2019 By Vassia Barba

‘Talk to your CDMO early’ is the advice BioConnection gives to developers of biopharmaceuticals, suggesting that they make a reservation to ensure availability.

AI in drug development: ACRO, DIA, and Owkin to talk use cases and what comes next

18-Sep-2019 By Melissa Fassbender

There has been a lot of discussion surrounding the use of artificial intelligence in drug development – with several deals, alliances, and partnerships made so far this year. Here, Outsourcing-Pharma takes a look back at some of these announcements, as...

Vineti, Cryoport partner to extend end-to-end cell therapy logistics offering

10-Sep-2019 By Vassia Barba

A collaboration between Vineti and Cryoport aims to extend supply chain services as the cell and gene therapies space continues to scale.

Catalent adds to its clinical supply business with new facility

09-Sep-2019 By Vassia Barba

Catalent to invest $9m in the building of an early-stage clinical supply facility in San Diego, due to open in the summer of 2020, to integrate its CDMO business.

Orgenesis reports record revenue as it looks to develop scalable processing solutions for cell therapies

03-Sep-2019 By Melissa Fassbender

Orgenesis is developing a ‘distributed’ processing solution – backed by its point-of-care cell therapy platform and CDMO business – to provide approved cell therapies to patients at a fraction of today’s costs, says company executive.

Innovate UK provides grant for cell therapy preservation hydrogel

03-Sep-2019 By Vassia Barba

Atelerix to work on the development of gel stabilisation technologies enabling room temperature storage of Rexgenero’s cell therapy candidate, under an Innovate UK grant.

Lonza and Chr. Hansen kickstart BacThera JV with €90m

02-Sep-2019 By Vassia Barba

Chr. Hansen and Lonza name their joint venture CDMO for live biotherapeutics and ready the launch after receiving antitrust approvals.

PCI boosts Ireland investment pre-Brexit with new clinical facility

27-Aug-2019 By Melissa Fassbender

As part of its global network expansion strategy, PCI Pharma Services is investing in a new dedicated clinical facility near Dublin, Ireland, which will provide space for secondary packaging, storage, logistics, and distribution.

Cellular therapy CDMO Cognate closes growth capital round

27-Aug-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Cognate BioServices closes a round of growth capital from EW Healthcare Partners to secure its capabilities for the commercialization of advanced cellular therapies.

Marken expands nursing services offered globally

26-Aug-2019 By Vassia Barba

Marken's home care and nursing services for home-based clinical trials are now operational across all of its global logistics network.

PPD extends Japanese footprint with exclusive collaboration

26-Aug-2019 By Maggie Lynch

PPD enters a collaboration agreement with Clinical Study Support to extend its analytical capabilities and global research footprint.

Supply chain to supply ‘cycle’: TrakCel CEO talks cell and gene therapies tracking

14-Aug-2019 By Vassia Barba

The increasing number of cell and gene therapies in clinical development is evolving the supply chain into a ‘supply cycle,’ says TrakCel CEO, with service providers being called to maintain control under pressure.

Traceability is key in the growing global cold chain market

14-Aug-2019 By Maggie Lynch

As the pharmaceutical industry grows globally, the market for cold chain technology, solutions, and innovations is working to keep pace.

On the industrialization of cell and gene therapy manufacturing: No scale without a seamless supply chain

14-Aug-2019 By Maggie Lynch

The cell and gene therapy industry cannot grow without a ‘standardized, systematized, industrialized foundation,’ according to experts from Lonza and Vineti, which have teamed up to advance a ‘vein-to-vein’ delivery network.

Cryoport sees no slowdown ahead: ‘The wind continues to be at our back’

14-Aug-2019 By Melissa Fassbender

The temperature-controlled logistics company expects demand to continue, with long-term plans to build out its bioservices operations – and a ‘revolutionary’ cryogenic storage system in the works.

Prellis raises $10.5m to advance 3D tissue printing

12-Aug-2019 By Vassia Barba

Prellis advances its goal of using 3D holographic printing to create organoids for research and development – recently closing a $10.5m investment round to further develop its technology, which accelerates drug screening, says CEO.

Clinerion expands its patient network with addition of Greek hospital

08-Aug-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Ever-expanding Clinerion adds another hospital to its Patient Network Explorer platform bringing clinical research to patients in Greece and expanding its client’s patient population coverage.

Cytel launches system for flexible use of trial design software

06-Aug-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Analytical solutions provider, Cytel, launches its East On Demand system to provide small biotechs access to more flexible software for adaptive trial design.

Marken adds Japanese courier to global lineup

05-Aug-2019 By Melissa Fassbender

Marken acquires PCX International in Japan, bolstering its presence locally to provide ‘more expansive’ services to the company’s clinical clients.

Samsung Biologics to produce clinical supply as UCB advances Ph I immunotherapy study

05-Aug-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Samsung Biologics and UCB agree to an additional drug substance manufacturing deal to produce an anti-tau candidate currently in Phase I clinical trials to treat progressive supranuclear palsy.

LSNE completes expansion to meet validated storage and cold chain options

01-Aug-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Growing need for validated storage capacity sees Lyophilization Services of New England complete an expansion its cGMP storage capabilities at its New Hampshire site.

Lonza, Vineti team up to address risks in the ‘vein-to-vein’ supply chain

01-Aug-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Lonza enters a partnership with Vineti to advance its ‘vein-to-vein’ delivery network, creating an end-to-end ordering and manufacturing process in support of cell and gene therapy development.

Cambrex doubles footprint at its crystallization facility

01-Aug-2019 By Vassia Barba

Cambrex to scale up its solid form screening and crystallization process development facility in Edinburgh to answer market demand for larger scale crystallization.

Phesi’s SaaS predicts ‘what if’ and eases site selection costs, delays

30-Jul-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Phesi launches an AI-powered SaaS solution to mitigate potential costly delays through a search and select investigator function to determine trial sites for clinical studies.

Iqvia sees ‘a lot of runway ahead’ despite growth in Q2

30-Jul-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Iqvia is looking to the future and opportunities in AI, after reporting $2.74bn in revenue for Q2 FY19.

Cold chain firm AeroSafe Global secures $31.m

25-Jul-2019 By Melissa Fassbender

AeroSafe Global has received an investment of $31.5m from several companies in order to expand its service offerings and geographical footprint.

Lonza taps Rockwell to digitize Capsugel manufacturing operations

18-Jul-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Lonza to use Rockwell Automation technology as it digitizes the operations and manufacturing environments at nine of its Capsugel facilities to bring “new levels” of operational efficiency.

Marken acquires three European firms, assessing additional deals: ‘Stay tuned,’ says CEO

18-Jul-2019 By Melissa Fassbender

Marken has purchased three European logistics firms and is assessing additional locations at which the CEO said it plans to either build or buy.

‘Rare disease studies require a spirit of innovation’: ARG

17-Jul-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Atlantic Research Group implements Greenphire’s ClinCard and ConneX reimbursement solutions in an aim to ease the clinical trial experience for both sites and patients.

Eversana, Cryoport partner on regenerative medicine supply chain

16-Jul-2019 By Vassia Barba

Eversana adopts Cryoport’s full suite of logistics services, in an alliance expected to ‘drive synergistic growth’ for both companies and answer regenerative medicine demands.

PE firm continues investments in health care industry by taking a stake in Jaggaer

15-Jul-2019 By Maggie Lynch

The strategic sourcing software company Jaggaer has received an investment from international PE firm Cinven.

LGM expands its services for section 503B APIs

15-Jul-2019 By Vassia Barba

LGM expands its service offerings to further support companies that supply APIs to compounding pharmacies under the FDA’s 503B section.

As ‘transformational’ as the internet: Alten adds blockchain initiative

11-Jul-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Alten Calsoft Labs launches its first initiative for blockchain through its scalable clinical trial platform BioPharma Ledger to address life sciences processes using BlockApps middleware.

Paragon contracted to support Amicus’ preclinical gene therapy program

04-Jul-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Amicus and Paragon enter a preclinical manufacturing agreement for the former’s lysomal disorder programs currently in development at Penn.

Amicus picks Brammer for preclinical, clinical gene therapy work

02-Jul-2019 By Vassia Barba

Rare disease drug developer to work with Brammer Bio – which Thermo Fisher acquired in March – on gene therapy programs against Batten disease.

United Cargo in deal to lease and transport SkyCell’s containers

01-Jul-2019 By Vassia Barba

United Cargo includes SkyCell’s temperature-controlled containers in its ‘rapidly increasing’ TempControl transport service for biopharmaceuticals.

Acquisition of Novartis’ Swiss site gives Lonza its first sterile drug product facility

01-Jul-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Lonza adds its first sterile drug product fill-finish facility to its network after acquiring Novartis’ Swiss plant, building on its parenteral drug product development and testing capabilities for clinical trial supply.

Automatic quality control application to potentially reduce timelines by a third

01-Jul-2019 By Maggie Lynch

MMS Holdings launched its cloud-based quality control application, Automatiqc, to meet quality control needs rapidly through its customizable software, according to the CRO.

Parexel introduces FSP outsourcing model at DIA

27-Jun-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Parexel launched a delivery model for its FSP services at DIA 2019 Global Annual Meeting in San Diego as the company aims to tailor solutions for biopharma customers.

Signant Health CEO talks investments and growth opportunities a year after CRF, Bracket merger

24-Jun-2019 By Melissa Fassbender

CRF Bracket – newly-rebranded as Signant Health – is looking to build momentum around eConsent, rethink the patient’s connection to the supply chain, and build out a stronger analytics platform, says CEO.