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Large CDMO Lonza to build a new large-scale, commercial drug product facility including fill and finish to support customers across the entire product life cycle in Switzerland, investment of CHF500m.

Picture: Charnwood Molecular

Lee Patterson joins UK-based Charnwood Molecular as new CEO. After nearly 25 years at UK-based Charnwood Molecular, Prof. Steve Allin has stepping down as CEO. He will remain as an investor and Board advisor.

Ecotec is part of the Gram-Negative Antibacterials NOW (GNA NOW) consortium within the Innovative Medicine Initaitive's AMR Accelerator. © AdobeStock

Evotec, pharma giant Boehringer Ingelheim, and IVD specialist bioMérieux have launched a €40m joint venture to fight Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).

Production at Pierre Fabre Médicaments. © Pierre Fabre

French drugmaker Pierre Fabre Médicaments will pay $75m for an exclusive licence to to commercialise Urovant Sciences’ drug vibegron for the treatment of overactive bladder in Europe.

German Regional Court in Düsseldorf. © Justiz NRW

German mRNA vaccine developer CureVac, whose COVID-19 vaccine was not effective, on Monday sued BioNTech/Pfizer for infringement of four patents.

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Shares of French drugmaker Ipsen fell by 4.4% at Euronext Paris after the company announced to take over US cancer specialist Epizyme Inc. for $247m.

Ambrosia Bio co-founder and CEO Ziv Zwighaft (left) and Olivier Rolland, Executive Director at TWB. © Toulouse White Biotech

At the end of the TWB Start-up day, which was attended by more than 200 biotech professionals, two industrial biotechnology companies were awarded prizes worth €50,000.

BioNTainers. © BioBTech SE

BioNTech SE has announced it is going to ship the first containers for mRNA malaria vaccine production from this year’s end toKigall.

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In an effort to become a major player in Europe’s growing pharmaceutical-grade cannabis market, Danish Canify AS and Bavaria Weed GmbH merge to form Canify AG.  

Unilever's state of the art manufacturing site in Dubai. © Unilever

Under the $120m deal, Genomatica and Unilever will scale plant- and waste-based alternative to palm oil and fossil fuels.