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The PPD clinical research business' new laboratory will enhance services in new and emerging therapeutic areas, add 350 new jobs to region WILMINGTON, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The PPD clinical research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today unveiled a new clinical research laboratory building at its good manufacturing practices (GMP) lab in Middleton, Wisconsin. The new 72,500-square-foot building increases the site’s chemistry, manufacturing and control (CMC) analytical capabilities as part of its clinical development and laboratory services focused on improving health by helping customers deliver life-changing medicines. “As research in biopharmaceutical therapies continues to rapidly expand, we are excited to expand our overall capacity and…

Suite of digital and data solutions designed to improve clinical trial efficiency, reduce data delays and simplify investigator site workflows BURLINGTON, N.C. , June 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Labcorp (NYSE: LH), a global leader of innovative and comprehensive laboratory services, announced today the launch of Labcorp Global Trial Connect, a suite of central laboratory solutions aimed at increasing the speed of clinical trials where the heart of clinical research is conducted – investigator sites. "The patient-investigator-biopharma sponsor relationship is at the foundation of a successful clinical trial. Global Trial Connect simplifies the investigator workflow, improves the patient experience and ultimately enables biopharma sponsors to bring therapies to market faster," said Jon DiVincen…

400 million people are infected with Dengue every year. 100 million will show symptoms, and 40,000 will die from the disease. As the world’s fastest-growing mosquito-borne viral disease, a coordinated preventative effort is urgently needed to tackle Dengue. You can help by making World Dengue Day (WDD) a reality. Whilst WDD is widely backed and recognised on 15th June by the International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases (ISNTD), Asian Dengue Voice and Action (ADVA) Group and dengue scientists around the world, it is not yet recognised by the United Nations. WDD would aim to raise public awareness of Dengue and encourage collaboration of scientific research and government disease control policies across the world. Vote in just one click to support the application to make WDD officia…

– Analysis Shows Manufacturing of Yescarta in Second-Line Treatment of Relapsed/Refractory Large B-cell Lymphoma Can Help Reduce Time from Leukapheresis to Infusion vs. Third-Line+ Treatment – – Data Builds on Previous Evidence on the Association Between Timely Infusion and Patient Outcomes – – Preliminary Results Supporting Safety and Feasibility of Outpatient Administration of Yescarta and Tecartus ® to be Presented – SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kite, a Gilead Company (Nasdaq: GILD), today announced results from three new analyses for Yescarta® (axicabtagene ciloleucel) in relapsed/refractory (R/R) large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL), including both new clinical research and real-world evidence highlighting manufacturing and product characteristics of Yescarta, and outpatient admi…

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker, and Josh Geballe, Managing Director of Yale Ventures, participated in the launch ceremony of the new BioMed X Institute on Tuesday, June 11, 2024. New Haven, CT, USA, June 13, 2024 – BioMed X, an independent research institute founded in Heidelberg, Germany, has expanded its operations with the opening of a new institute in the United States. Located in New Haven, CT, in the vicinity of Yale University, the new facilities are part of the Elm City Bioscience Center, a state-of-the-art lab and research building owned by The Hurley Group. This significant milestone was celebrated with a grand opening ceremony on Tuesday, June 11, and attended by BioMed X fellows, partners, collaborators, and distinguished guests. Governor Ned…

Bold initiative to boost the capacity of research sites enters Beta testing and piloting RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – June 12, 2024 – IQVIA (NYSE:IQV) today announced the launch of One Home for Sites™, a new technology platform that acts as a single sign-on and a single dashboard for the key systems and tasks a clinical research site needs to perform across all of the clinical trials it is conducting. Clinical research sites manage scores of usernames and passwords in dozens of software applications as they navigate through numerous tasks they must complete each day in conducting clinical trials. This technology overload reduces the time site staff have to recruit and treat patients and the number of trials a site is able to manage simultaneously. IQVIA One Home for Sites meets this chal…

New space recognises the need for more cost-effective bench space and flexible agreements for startups and spinouts  Sandwich, Kent, UK / 10th June 2024 / Discovery Park, Kent’s thriving life science community, has opened the doors to CoLab, a new shared lab facility. In partnership with Canterbury Christ Church University, CoLab has been specially designed for early-stage life science businesses, providing flexible bench space in a collaborative coworking environment. Dr Cornelia Wilson, Senior Lecturer and Academic Laboratory Director at Canterbury Christ Church University, said: “Finding lab space is too often a blocker for promising life science spin outs and startups, and CoLab exists to solve this. This specialist lab offers flexible and cost-effective space in a collaborative enviro…

Alecensa reduced the risk of disease recurrence or death by an unprecedented 76% in people with ALK-positive resected non-small cell lung cancer, as demonstrated in the Phase III ALINA study1 Alecensa’s approval addresses an urgent unmet need in the early-stage setting where about half of all people experience disease recurrence following surgery, despite adjuvant chemotherapy2 Early diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer can reduce the burden associated with progressive disease and give people the best possible chance of cure3-6 Basel, 10 June 2024 – Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that the European Commission has approved Alecensa® (alectinib) monotherapy, as adjuvant treatment following tumour resection for adult patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positi…

Abbott's first-of-its-kind i2i™ technology enables synchronized communication between two leadless pacemakers The AVEIR™ DR leadless pacemaker system is roughly one-tenth the size of a traditional pacemaker and smaller than a AAA battery AVEIR DR leadless pacemakers are designed to address the needs of people in Europe living with abnormal heart rhythms and expand treatment options for Europeans ABBOTT PARK, Ill., June 6, 2024 ­­­­— Abbott today announced it has received CE Mark in Europe for the AVEIR™ dual chamber (DR) leadless pacemaker system, the world's first dual chamber leadless pacemaker that treats people with abnormal or slow heart rhythms. Approximately 49 million people are living with cardiovascular disease in the European Union, and it is estimated that 14.4 million…

MELBOURNE, Australia, June 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Genetic Technologies Limited (ASX: GTG; NASDAQ: GENE, “Company”, “GTG”), a global leader in genomics-based tests in health, wellness and serious disease, and Stayhealthy, Inc., a leader in health and wellness technology, are excited to announce a major distribution agreement. This partnership will bring GTG's innovative Multi-Risk Test to a broader audience in the online pharmacy channel across North America, empowering individuals to take control of their health. Stayhealthy is at the forefront of integrating technology with health solutions. The company's mission is to empower, inspire, and give hope to individuals, families, and communities through enhanced technology and a global wellness network. Their FDA-cleared technologies ha…

AstraZeneca today announced the successful completion of the acquisition of Fusion Pharmaceuticals Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation radioconjugates (RCs). The acquisition marks a major step forward in AstraZeneca delivering on its ambition to transform cancer treatment and outcomes for patients by replacing traditional regimens like chemotherapy and radiotherapy with more targeted treatments. This acquisition complements AstraZeneca’s leading oncology portfolio with the addition of the Fusion pipeline of RCs, including their most advanced programme, FPI-2265, a potential new treatment for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), and brings new expertise and pioneering R&D, manufacturing and supply chain capabili…

Labcorp® Tissue Complete, a comprehensive genomic profiling service, now available in Geneva and Shanghai to support global clinical trials Company expands leadership in liquid biopsy comprehensive genomic profiling for solid tumors with the integration of OmniSeq® INSIGHT circulating tumor DNA BURLINGTON, N.C., June 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Labcorp (NYSE: LH), a global leader of innovative and comprehensive laboratory services, today announced new strategic service offerings within its precision oncology portfolio. The enhancements strengthen Labcorp's leadership as a premier, single-source partner for biopharmaceutical companies in advancing cancer research and patient care both in the United States and globally. "Labcorp's portfolio expansion enhances our integrated service offerings a…

Collaboration leverages synergies of QIAGEN’s OmicSoft omics data through Evotec’s analysis platform PanHunter Customers accelerate target discovery decisions with high-quality multi-omic evidence, and expanded analysis capabilities Hamburg, Germany, and Venlo, the Netherlands, 03 June 2024:Evotec SE (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EVT, MDAX/TecDAX, ISIN: DE0005664809; NASDAQ: EVO) and QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced a collaboration to leverage QIAGEN’s OmicSoft Land Databases through Evotec’s PanOmics data access and analysis platform PanHunter. Combining comprehensive data sets with advanced analytics capabilities will enable enhanced multi-omics data insights, better disease understanding and more precise therapeutic interventions. Omics data offers exten…

In the MCL cohort of TRANSCEND NHL 001, Breyanzi delivered responses in 85.3% of patients with a one-time infusion while demonstrating a consistent safety profile across clinical trials Breyanzi is the only CAR T cell therapy approved by the FDA for four distinct subtypes of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, bringing this personalized therapy to the broadest array of patients with B-cell malignancies PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for Breyanzi ® (lisocabtagene maraleucel; liso-cel), a CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) who have received at least two prior lines of s…

Partnership will expand Evotec’s molecular patient database in the area of metabolic diseases and in particular obesity Evotec will leverage its leading PanOmics technologies for the generation of large omics data sets including transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics Lille University Hospital will provide human biological samples and associated clinical data from its ABOS Biobank and will collect specific human biosamples for the collaboration All parties will jointly identify and validate novel key mechanisms of obesity & other metabolic diseases based on human data sets Hamburg, Germany, 30 May 2024:Evotec SE (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EVT, MDAX/TecDAX, ISIN: DE0005664809; NASDAQ: EVO) today announced that the Company entered a partnership with Inserm, the French National Ins…

The research of BioMed X team EPD – Early Intervention in Psychiatric Diseases – has shed light on the molecular mechanisms underlying white matter deficits in schizophrenia. HEIDELBERG, Germany, May 28, 2024 – German independent research institute BioMed X announces the successful completion of its second neuroscience project in partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim in the field of psychiatric disorders. The data resulting from this project have been acquired by Boehringer Ingelheim, where this research will be continued, potentially paving the way for novel therapies. This research project was launched in 2020 at the BioMed X Institute in Heidelberg and led by Dr. Ebru Ercan Herbst, now a professor at Reutlingen University, Germany. Her team has created both in vivo and in vitro platfo…

DUBLIN, May 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (Nasdaq: JAZZ) today announced a strategic collaboration with Life Science Cares to drive social impact through employee volunteerism in the United States. This partnership reinforces Jazz's commitment to supporting the communities in which employees work and live. Life Science Cares is a collective effort to activate the financial and human capital of the life sciences industry across several regions in the U.S. – and partner with nonprofits – to disrupt the cycle of poverty and inequality in those communities. With hubs around Jazz's U.S. offices in Palo Alto, Philadelphia and San Diego, Life Science Cares will help enable Jazz's goals to harness the passion of its employees to make a meaningful difference in their communities…

Today Boehringer Ingelheim and OSE Immunotherapeutics SA (OSE), a clinical stage biotech company (ISIN: FR0012127173; Mnemo: OSE), announced a major expansion of their partnership. Two new projects to develop first-in-class treatments will be added to the ongoing anti-SIRPα immuno-oncology programs. The first involves broadening the therapeutic evaluation of an already partnered asset to reach more patients and the other a new asset acquisition: Reflecting an amendment of the existing collaboration and license agreement for the anti-SIRPα immuno-oncology compounds BI 765063 and BI 770371, which are being investigated in Phase I clinical studies in advanced solid tumors, development will now also be pursued in cardiovascular-renal-metabolic (CRM) diseases. A new preclinical program will…

Paris, New York, N.Y., and San Francisco, CA, May 21, 2024. Sanofi, Formation Bio and OpenAI are collaborating to build AI-powered software to accelerate drug development and bring new medicines to patients more efficiently. The three teams will bring together data, software and tuned models to develop custom, purpose-built solutions across the drug development lifecycle. This represents a first collaboration of its kind within the pharma and life sciences industries. Sanofi will leverage this partnership to provide access to proprietary data to develop AI models as it continues on its path to becoming the first biopharma company powered by AI at scale. Paul Hudson CEO, Sanofi“This unique collaboration is the next significant step in our journey to becoming a pharmaceutical company substan…

Operationally ready by 2029, it will be the Company’s first-ever facility to cover the full manufacturing process for ADCs AstraZeneca intends to build a $1.5 billion manufacturing facility in Singapore for antibody drug conjugates (ADCs), enhancing global supply of its ADC portfolio. ADCs are next-generation treatments that deliver highly potent cancer-killing agents directly to cancer cells through a targeted antibody. The planned greenfield facility, supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), will be AstraZeneca’s first end-to-end ADC production site, fully incorporating all steps of the manufacturing process at a commercial scale. Manufacturing of ADCs is a multi-step process that comprises antibody production, synthesis of chemotherapy drug and linker, conjugat…