Antoxerene and investor firm Juvenescence have collaborated to form FoxBio Inc., an offshoot focused on small molecule drug discovery for the pathways of ageing.
AmerisourceBergen (ABC) plans to buy a minority stake in a Brazilian drug wholesaler and outlined plans for a $100m distribution services joint-venture in the rapidly expanding market.
NovaMedica and the Russian Government are to build an $85m (€64m) facility as part of a joint venture encouraging local manufacturing, the company says.
Sinovac Biotech has formed a joint venture which will give it cost effective manufacturing capacity for 20m does of live attenuated vaccines and 20m doses of vero cell cultured vaccines a year.
PCAS is setting up a kilolab in California, US to target the small-scale synthesis market, which it believes will benefit its large-scale operations by establishing relationships earlier in development.
Rising demand in China has led to Toray Fine Chemicals (TFC) establishing a joint venture to produce dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), a reaction solvent in pharma production.
US drugmaker Unigene has begun construction of new facilities in
China as part of its joint venture with a state-owned Chinese
pharmaceutical company to establish research, development and
manufacturing capacities in the nation.
Indian biotech heavyweight Biocon has today announced that its
joint venture with Abu Dhabi-based Neopharma has spawned new
company NeoBiocon, operating out of one of Dubai's newest
biotechnology parks.
Quintiles' subsidiary Pharmalink has acquired the marketing rights
to Eli Lilly India's flagship antibiotic brand Distaclor (cefaclor)
in a bid to boost its core services business.
India's Lupin Ltd is ramping up its active pharmaceutical
ingredient (API) capability by teaming up with compatriot and
corticosteroid specialist Symbiotec Pharmalab Ltd.
Owens-Illinois, the US company best known as a manufacturer of
glass containers, has finalised a 50/50 joint venture with Pavisa
Industries to manufacture and sell plastic healthcare containers in
Mexico and other Latin markets.
Alfa Laval has announced the first of several new patents in which
a new mixing technology is described that claims to increase
productivity as well as reduce long cycle times - an issue that is
common with current single-use mixing...
Degussa and Shionogi set up a new joint venture company in Japan to
sell precipitated silica, silica gel and matting agents, used as
pharmaceutical additives.
