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Jul 23, 2024

Moderna co-founder Robert Langer is leaving the vaccine pioneer's board


BeiGene debuts $800M biologics plant set to create ‘hundreds’ of jobs in New Jersey


Sanofi gears up for ‘biggest corporate activation’ at Paris Olympics


Insilico Medicine launches AI assistant for drafting medical research papers


AstraZeneca plants an EGFR tree with Pinetree deal worth $45M


Hikma extends recall of pain drug due to 'potential presence' of sedative, reports adverse event


Amid Wegovy and Ozempic boom, Novo eyes new facility with 200-acre land buy in Denmark

 

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Moderna co-founder Robert Langer is leaving the vaccine pioneer's board

After 14 years on the board of Moderna, the biotech that became a household name after developing an mRNA vaccine for Covid-19, chemical engineer Robert Langer, Sc.D., is retiring from the company’s board.
 

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BeiGene debuts $800M biologics plant set to create ‘hundreds’ of jobs in New Jersey

BeiGene continued its global expansion march with the opening of its flagship biologics manufacturing and R&D facility in Hopewell, New Jersey.

Sanofi gears up for ‘biggest corporate activation’ at Paris Olympics

Sanofi has reached a critical milestone in its push to change how it is seen by the wider world. With the world’s media descending on Paris for the Olympics, the French drugmaker is ramping up for the “biggest corporate activation” in its history.

Insilico Medicine launches AI assistant for drafting medical research papers

Named DORA, the manuscript helper taps multiple AI and large language models to support the drafting of academic papers and case studies, in addition to applications for grants and patents.

AstraZeneca plants an EGFR tree with Pinetree deal worth $45M

Pinetree Therapeutics will help AstraZeneca plant some trees in its pipeline with a new pact to develop a preclinical EGFR degrader worth $45 million upfront for the small biotech.

Hikma extends recall of pain drug due to 'potential presence' of sedative, reports adverse event

So far, the company has received one report of an adverse event stemming from the "potential presence" of a sedative inside the pain med's packaging.

Amid Wegovy and Ozempic boom, Novo eyes new facility with 200-acre land buy in Denmark

Earlier this month, Novo Nordisk purchased a 200-acre site in Odense, Denmark’s third largest city, the company has confirmed. Novo is now set to kick off preparatory excavation work for a potential new production plant.

NIH study shows AI scores high in diagnostic quiz, but still can’t show its work

Researchers quizzed an AI using four years’ worth of online image challenges from the New England Journal of Medicine—a long-running column that tests the reader’s ability to diagnose a patient, based on a series of submitted pictures and some basic clinical background information.

MyMD Pharmaceuticals is no more: Meet TNF Pharmaceuticals

The life sciences industry continues to see a trend of rebranding as another biotech company decides to embrace change by saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.

CG Life brings 40-year industry veteran Jay Carter out of retirement for business development VP role

Well, that was fast. Barely six months after Jay Carter announced his retirement following an illustrious 40-year career in healthcare and pharma marketing, he’s back in the saddle.

In Singapore, Pfizer cuts ribbon on $743M extension of API plant

Pfizer has opened an extension to its active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) plant in Singapore. The SGD $1 billion ($743 million) project covers 429,000 square feet and will produce antibiotics and small molecules to treat cancer and pain, the company said.

Precigen, eyeing a 2025 launch of its experimental gene therapy, nabs pharma veteran as commercial chief

The 30-plus-year pharma veteran Phil Tennant is stepping in to take on what could be one of the biggest challenges in life sciences: selling a new gene therapy from a small biotech.
 
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