News and Press Releases
Carbon Minimal pressurised Metered Dose Inhalers (pMDIs) could save up to 619,000 tonnes of emissions each year, representing up to 7%-10% of NHS Net Zero targets
At a national level, seamless transitioning to a range of carbon minimal pMDIs could save between 415,000 and 619,000 tCO₂e annually, reducing carbon emissions to the equivalent financial value of...
Category: Drug Delivery, Manufacturing and Packing
Posted: March 10, 2025
NHS patients receive medicines manufactured by Octapharma using UK-donated plasma for the first time in almost 30 years
The sole manufacturer for the UK’s Plasma for Medicines (PfM) programme is supporting the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England, and NHS Blood and Transplant to build resilience...
Category: Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: March 6, 2025
HUTCHMED Announces that it has Completed Enrollment of a Phase II Registration Study of Fanregratinib (HMPL-453) for Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma in China
6 March 2025 -- Hong Kong, Shanghai and New Jersey, US -- HUTCHMED (China) Limitedtoday announces that it has completed enrollment of its a Phase II trial of fanregratinib (HMPL-453)...
Category: Clinical Trials, Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical
Posted: March 6, 2025
Medicines manufacturing skills project uses Virtual Reality to help NHS reach net zero
Resilience, a UK government initiative, says its use of VR will reduce travel and waste 10 February 2025 – The recently launched government-funded medicines manufacturing skills project, Resilience, has said...
Category: Manufacturing and Packing
Posted: February 11, 2025
Ellipses In-Licences First in Class Novel Immuno-Oncology Agent with Potential as a Next Generation Checkpoint Inhibitor
11 February 2025 -- London, UK -- Ellipses Pharma Limited, a global drug development company focused on accelerating the development of cancer treatments through an innovative drug development model, announced...
Category: BioManufacturing, Drug Discovery, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: February 11, 2025
Novel Findings Using the Parsortix System Demonstrating Role of CTC:B Cell Clusters in Driving Cancer Progression
Findings may enable the development of novel drugs to target B cell and CTC cluster interactions to suppress cancer metastasis This pivotal work is likely to stimulate further interest in...
Category: Drug Discovery, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: February 6, 2025
BioMed X Institute and Merck Successfully Complete Extrachromosomal DNA in Cancer Research Project
The research of BioMed X team EDC - Extrachromosomal DNA in Cancer - has uncovered critical insights into the mechanisms driving extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) formation and maintenance, offering potential avenues for...
Category: Clinical Trials, Drug Discovery, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: February 6, 2025
Orion and Invenra announce discovery service and commercial license agreement to develop innovative bispecific antibody cancer therapeutics
30 January 2025 -- Espoo, Finland -- Orion Corporation and Invenra Inc, an innovative biotechnology company with proprietary technologies for discovering novel therapeutics, today announced that they have entered into...
Category: Drug Discovery, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: January 30, 2025
Owkin Announces First Patient Dosed in Phase I AI-optimized Clinical Trial of OKN4395, a First-in-Class EP2/EP4/DP1 Triple Inhibitor for Patients with Solid Tumors
OKN4395 is the first Owkin development program to leverage K1.0, Owkin’s AI-powered Operating System, from asset selection to clinical development optimization This asset is a highly selective triple inhibitor of...
Category: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical
Posted: January 30, 2025
NEW RESULTS FOR dual analysis of CTC-DNA and ctDNA using Illumina assay and sequencing platform
Findings in lung cancer show that CTCs can provide additional biomarkers not found in ctDNA from single blood sample ANGLE invited to present data at EACR-Illumina webinar on 6 February...
Category: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: January 29, 2025
Pfizer’s BRAFTOVI Combination Regimen Demonstrates Improved Response in Patients with BRAF V600E-Mutant Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Clinically meaningful and statistically significant results from the Phase 3 BREAKWATER trial show objective response rate of 61% with Pfizer’s BRAFTOVI combination regimen compared to 40% with investigator’s choice of...
Category: Clinical Trials, Drug Discovery, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: January 25, 2025
Clinical Trial Powered by Parsortix System Provides First-in-Class Data for Novel Approach to Cancer Treatment
Parsortix system used to identify patients with highly metastatic CTC clusters for targeted treatment New treatment strategy provides ‘uncharted opportunity’ to target metastasis responsible for the vast majority of cancer...
Category: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical
Posted: January 24, 2025
HUTCHMED Announces NMPA Full Approval for ORPATHYS® (savolitinib) in China for Patients with Locally Advanced or Metastatic MET Exon 14 NSCLC
Indication expands to include treatment-naïve patients The 2021 conditional approval in previously treated patients converted to full approval. 14 January 2025 -- Hong Kong, Shanghai, and New Jersey, US --...
Category: Clinical Trials, Drug Discovery, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: January 14, 2025
BioMed X Institute Launches New Collaboration with Daiichi Sankyo in Cancer Therapy
German research institute BioMed X started a new partnership with Daiichi Sankyo, a Japanese pharmaceutical company, to advance the development of bi- and multi-specific biologics for treating solid tumors 14 January...
Category: Drug Discovery, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: January 14, 2025
AbbVie’s SKYRIZI® (risankizumab) Accepted by the Scottish Medicines Consortium for Adults with Moderately to Severely Active Ulcerative Colitis
Risankizumab will be available on the NHS in Scotland for the treatment of adult patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC) who have had an inadequate response to,...
Category: Clinical Trials, Pharmaceutical
Posted: January 13, 2025
