IRBM and Merck have signed a new agreement in the peptide therapeutics area through which the Italian CRO will identify potential peptide leads for a specific Merck target.
Provence Technologies, a French chemical developer, has acquired the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) maker Synprosis, a specialist in synthesising long-chain peptides.
Neuland Laboratories is building a facility to produce HPAPIs, which it predicts will contribute 20 per cent of its bottom line over the next two to three years, and has begun commercial peptide manufacture.
Peptide Technologies showcased their latest rapid automated peptide
synthesis equipment at Pittcon 2008, including a new product, the
benchtop Tribute instrument.
A fund to promote biotech collaborations between Australia and New
Zealand has awarded a lump sum to two Antipodean firms which will
result in a new good manufacturing practice (GMP) compliant peptide
manufacturing plant in the under-served...
Biopharmaceutical firm Oragenics has received funding from a US
government agency for a technology which promises cost-effective
production of commercially important bioactive peptides with
unusual structures.
Avecia spin-out Reaxa has launched a new peptide coupling
technology based on 2-mercaptobenzothiazole (2-MBT), which it
claims offers major operational and cost benefits in both small and
large scale solid-phase peptide synthesis.
Japan's Ajinomoto has developed a revolutionary enzymatic method to
manufacture peptides that could dramatically cut the cost of
producing this growing class of therapeutic agents.
Solvay subsidiary Peptisyntha is boosting its capacity to make
peptides at its facilities in California, US, in anticipation of
increasing numbers of drugs in this class coming through to market.
Chemical Synthesis Services of Northern Ireland has acquired a
controlling interest in Albachem, a company specialising in peptide
and protein synthesis based in West Lothian, Scotland.
Solutia has launched an offensive on the outsourced peptide
synthesis market with the formation of a new business group in
Switzerland focusing on the sector.