ImmunGen, which develops antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) for the treatment of cancer, announced that it has amended its license agreements with Sanofi covering all compounds in development by Sanofi using ImmunoGen’s technology. Under the terms of the amended 2003 collaboration and license agreement, ImmunoGen has granted Sanofi a fully-paid, exclusive license to develop, manufacture, and commercialize […]

The Pacific Coast Business Times is reporting that on March 22, Amgen notified nearly 500 employees at their Thousand Oaks facility that they will be re-assigned, relocated, or laid off over the next year and a half. The reassigned employees will be transferred to a new facility in Tampa Bay or to R&D in Cambridge, […]

Regulators in the European Union and the United States have agreed to recognize inspections of manufacturing sites for human medicines performed by the other agency. Each year, authorities from the EU and the FDA inspect the same production sites in the US and EU. Under the new agreement, EU and US regulators will rely on […]

Massachusetts will be a partner in the nation’s first manufacturing innovation institute in biopharmaceutical manufacturing. The $250 million biopharmaceutical innovation institute is a national, public-private partnership, with federal matching funds provided by the US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology. Massachusetts will anchor the northeastern node for the institute, which will be […]

Broad Institute has announced that the patents granted to MIT, Harvard and Broad Institute concerning CRISPR editing of eukaryotic genomes do not interfere with patent claims filed by UC Berkeley and the University of Vienna, according to a decision handed down by the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board on February 15. The decision confirms […]