Pharmaceutical Outsourcing covers news of importance to the contract services segment of the pharmaceutical industry.
Collected from the most trusted on-line resources, these news stories are chosen and published here based on their relevance to the pharmaceutical industry.
Topics of interest typically include: mergers and acquisitions, service additions, new capabilities, personnel changes, news from the FDA and other international regulatory and standard-setting agencies, and new outsourcing contracts and deals.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Symbiosis Pharmaceutical Services has appointed Jay Chima as vice president of business development as the aseptic fill-finish contract development and manufacturing organization expands its commercial team amid growing demand for biologics, advanced...
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Halo Pharma is in the final operational stages of activating a new sterile injectable manufacturing line at its Whippany, New Jersey, facility, following a $45 million investment intended to add domestic capacity for pharmaceutical companies.
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Hovione has completed a more than €40 million expansion of its tablet development and manufacturing center in Loures, Portugal, adding commercial-scale batch tableting capacity for oral solid dosage products.
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Cambrex has completed pre-approval inspections by the U.S. FDA, Japan’s Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency and Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration at its High Point, North Carolina facility, enabling the site to manufacture approved ...
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Chai Discovery has entered a collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb to support the discovery of therapeutic antibody candidates using artificial intelligence.
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Thursday, August 20, 2026
VectorBuilder and Lir Therapeutics have formed a strategic collaboration to develop adeno-associated virus capsids designed to combine biological performance with the manufacturability and scalability needed for clinical gene-therapy programs.
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Thursday, August 20, 2026
Charles River Laboratories International and Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corp. have formed a collaboration to support development of Medigen’s next-generation multivalent enterovirus vaccine through next-generation sequencing and other analytical and ...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Piramal Pharma Ltd. has completed the acquisition of an additional 40.67% stake in Hyderabad-based biologics contract development and manufacturing organization Yapan Bio Private Ltd., raising its ownership to 74% and making the company a Piramal ...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Cytovance Biologics has launched standalone analytical services for biopharmaceutical companies, allowing clients to access analytical testing without also using the company for development or manufacturing.
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Genprex has selected a U.S.-based contract development and manufacturing organization to scale production of its investigational diabetes gene therapy, moving the program from research-grade manufacturing toward clinical and commercial-ready output.
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Clinilabs has appointed biopharma executive Laura Shannon as chief executive officer and promoted founder Gary Zammit, Ph.D., to executive chairperson as the specialty contract research organization expands its global capabilities in central nervous ...
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Ryvu Therapeutics has launched Keelira, a dedicated early clinical development services business designed to help biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies bring oncology programs into Europe.
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Lonza has launched a rapid custom media prototyping service designed to help life sciences customers accelerate early-stage development of cell culture media formulations.
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Eurofins CDMO Alphora has expanded its kilolab and high-potency active pharmaceutical ingredient development and manufacturing capabilities in Mississauga, Ontario, adding laboratory capacity designed to support complex small-molecule programs.
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Thursday, August 13, 2026
Axtria Inc. announced plans to expand its Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) organization to 1,000 engineers by December 2026, creating the industry's largest pharma-specific AI engineering team.
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