Samsung BiologicsConsolidation in the contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) sector continues to accelerate. With a bid valued at approximately US$1.8 billion for Swiss peptide specialist PolyPeptide, Samsung Biologics aims to strengthen its position in the fast-growing market for complex biopharmaceuticals.
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Denmark’s Novo Nordisk has signed a collaboration with Boston-based Vivtex Corporation to develop next-generation oral biologic medicines for obesity, diabetes and associated metabolic diseases. Vivtex is eligible to receive upfront payments, research funding and milestone payments totalling up to $2.1 billion (approximately €1.78bn), as well as tiered royalties on net sales of any resulting products.
Professionalism and quality are always at the forefront along the whole value chain: from gene to product. To pro-actively meet the evolving demand of the market to produce new assets Richter-Helm significantly increased its manufacturing capacities for biopharmaceutical products at its production site in Bovenau, Germany.
Biovian and 3P Biopharmaceuticals have created a new pan-European CDMO, dubbed 3PBIOVIAN.