Formulation Development

Evonik Expands North American Contract Development & Manufacturing Capabilities for Advanced Injectables

Evonik recently announced a €35 million expansion of its contract development and manufacturing (CDMO) capabilities in North America to meet growing demand for controlled release injectable formulations. The expansion of the U.S. and Canadian facilities, which includes the installation of a new filling line, production facilities and analytical labs, will create more than 50 jobs.

Epinephrine Nasal Spray in Development for Treatment of Anaphylaxis Shows Promise as Potential Alternative to Intramuscular Injection

INSYS Therapeutics, Inc., a leader in the development, manufacture and commercialization of pharmaceutical cannabinoids and spray technology, announced today that its investigational epinephrine nasal spray showed promise in an early clinical trial as a potential needle-free, non-invasive and easy-to-use alternative to intramuscular injection for the treatment of anaphylaxis.

FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics Licenses University of California – Irvine’s Technologies

FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics, Inc. (FCDI) recently announced it has entered into an exclusive patent license agreement with the University of California – Irvine (UCI) through its offices at UCI Applied Innovation to license and commercialize UCI’s technologies for derivation of microglia in the commercial research field and also a non-exclusive patent license agreement to commercialize microglia media formulation.

eFFECTOR Initiates Dosing of eFT508 in Phase 2 Expansion of Clinical Trial in Aggressive Form of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

eFFECTOR Therapeutics, Inc. recently announced that it has dosed the first patient in the Phase 2 expansion portion of its monotherapy trial of eFT508, the company’s oral, small molecule inhibitor of MNK1/2, for the treatment of relapsed, refractory non-germinal center B cell (non-GCB) diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL).

Axovant Licenses Investigational Gene Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease From Oxford BioMedica; Announces Key Leadership Team Addition

Axovant Sciences recently announced that it has licensed the exclusive worldwide rights to develop and commercialize OXB-102, now AXO-Lenti-PD, from Oxford BioMedica. AXO-Lenti-PD is an investigational gene therapy for Parkinson’s disease that delivers three genes encoding a critical set of enzymes required for dopamine synthesis in the brain.