Friday, June 9, 2023 Daily Archives

Biopharma resilience: Supply chain improving but talent gap grows, Cytiva

Cytiva says capacity investments and more localized production have improved supply chain security though its annual biomanufacturing landscape snapshot shows overall industry resilience is down. For the third year running, bioprocess vendor Cytiva has published results from its Biopharma Resilience Index, a survey of capabilities in five key areas rated by industry leaders. Among the reasons to be cheerful, over half the respondents (52%) believe it has become more affordable to manufacture drugs with the manufacturing agility score increasing compared…

Pfizer inks $411m biosimilar contract in busy week for Samsung Bio

Pfizer has expanded a partnership with Samsung Biologics, securing space in the Korean CDMO’s recently opened fourth plant to produce multiple biosimilar products. A co-development deal inherited through the acquisition of Hospira in 2015 means Pfizer leverages Celltrion for the production of commercial biosimilar Inflectra (infliximab-dyyb), but a contract announced this week sees the Big Pharma firm team with another Korean drugmaker for its biosimilar portfolio, Samsung Biologics. According to the contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), this “strategic partnership”…