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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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Vetter, a leading contract development and
manufacturing organization for pre-filled application systems, has announced that 2013
was yet another growth year for the company. As evidenced by a growing demand for
customer projects in clinical ...
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Isarna Therapeutics GmbH announced today that it
has signed a strategic manufacturing agreement with Sanofi under which Sanofi will
manufacture clinical- and commercial-grade antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) compounds for
Isarna, enabling Isarna to...
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Pharma Tech Industries (PTI), the largest pharmaceutical contract manufacturer and packager of powder products in the world, has hired management veteran Anthony (Tony) Mitchell as its new President and Chief Operating Officer. In this position, Mr....
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Catalent Pharma Solutions, the global leader in development solutions and advanced delivery technologies for drug, biologic and consumer health products, and Adamas Pharmaceuticals Inc., today announced an agreement for Phase 3 clinical trials ...
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UK-based sterile manufacturing specialist SCM Pharma has bolstered its North American profile with the appointment of a US-based business development manager.
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Tuesday, January 07, 2014
GE (NYSE:GE) and Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE:TMO) announced today that they have entered into an agreement for GE Healthcare to acquire Thermo Fisher’s HyClone™ cell culture media and sera, and gene modulation and magnetic beads businesses for ...
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Tuesday, January 07, 2014
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANIP), an emerging generic pharmaceutical company, today announced that it has entered into a fee-for-service development agreement for a generic drug product with Sterling Pharmaceutical Services ("Sterling.") The ...
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Tuesday, January 07, 2014
The German pharmaceutical, chemical and
life science company Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, broke ground today on a new
production facility for its Allergopharma unit in Reinbek near Hamburg. The new facility,
which is estimated to cost nearly € ...
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Tuesday, January 07, 2014
Alkermes plc (NASDAQ:ALKS) today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a Notice of Allowance for U.S. Patent Application 14/032,736, entitled “Prodrugs of fumarates and their use in treating various diseases....
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Tuesday, January 07, 2014
Almac Group Limited (“Almac”) and Key Organics Limited (“Key Organics”) today announced that they have entered into an exclusive supply & marketing agreement.
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Friday, December 20, 2013
CMC Biologics and OncoSynergy announced today that the two
companies entered into an agreement for cell-line development, process development,
analytical development and manufacturing of non-GMP material to enable early toxicology
testing and cGMP...
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Friday, December 20, 2013
In his new role, Ross is responsible for managing and expanding Metrics’ fee-for-service operations. The company’s comprehensive contract services include pharmaceutical oral dose formulation development with dedicated suites for potent product ...
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Friday, December 20, 2013
Following a successful inspection by the German health authorities in July 2013 ChemCon received the approval required to manufacture semi-solid pharmaceuticals (gels and creams for topical therapy) for human use. This was an important step for the ...
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Friday, December 20, 2013
Temptime Corporation, the world’s leading
provider of time-temperature indicators to the health care industry, announced today that it
has acquired Enfield, Conn.-based William Laboratories to expand into blood temperature
monitoring solutions. ...
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Friday, December 20, 2013
FlowMetric, a market leader in flow cytometry and cell sorting services, announced today that they have hired Rachel A. Bunting to lead their Business Development Unit. Ms. Bunting will be tasked with overseeing a rapidly expanding portfolio of ...
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