Ardena, a specialist pharmaceutical CDMO and bioanalytical CRO enabling precision medicines and other complex therapies, announces the appointment of Dipesh Patel as Chief Quality Officer and Peter Rose as Chief Information Officer. These appointments strengthen Ardena’s executive leadership team and reflect its continued focus on quality, compliance, and digital integration across its global network. Dipesh […]
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Novo Nordisk submits updated proposal to acquire Metsera, Inc.
On 30 October 2025, Novo Nordisk announced the submission of an unsolicited proposal to acquire Metsera, Inc. (Metsera)1. Today, Novo Nordisk confirms that it has submitted an updated, unsolicited proposal to acquire Metsera. The updated proposal has been declared superior by Metsera’s board of directors. The acquisition of Metsera, including its early and development-stage incretin […]
Argonaut Manufacturing Services appoints Rick Hancock as Chief Executive Officer to lead next phase of growth
Argonaut Manufacturing Services, a leading contract development manufacturing organization (CDMO) specializing in aseptic drug product manufacturing and the manufacturing of life science and diagnostic products announces the appointment of Rick Hancock as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Rick is a biotechnology executive with more than 40 years of leadership experience in CDMO’s and pharmaceutical development companies and […]
ScaleReady Announces a G-Rex® Grant has been awarded to Sonoma Biotherapeutics
ScaleReady, in collaboration with Wilson Wolf Manufacturing, Bio-Techne Corporation and CellReady, today announced that Sonoma Biotherapeutics has been awarded a $300,000 G-Rex® Grant. SonomaBio’s G-Rex® Grant will enable expeditious development of a G-Rex® based manufacturing process to produce gene-modified regulatory T cell (Treg) therapies for clinical investigation of SonomaBio products in development for various autoimmune related disorders. […]
Codexis and Nitto Denko Avecia Enter Evaluation Agreement to Explore Codexis’s ECO Synthesis® Manufacturing Platform for Therapeutic siRNA Manufacturing
Codexis, Inc., a leading provider of enzymatic solutions for efficient and scalable therapeutics manufacturing, and Nitto Denko Avecia, Inc. a leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) specializing in oligonucleotide therapeutics, today announced that they have entered into an evaluation agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Nitto Denko Avecia will evaluate Codexis’ ECO Synthesis® […]
ANNE-KATHRIN STOLLER TO BECOME NEW CEO AT BACHEM
Bachem announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Anne-Kathrin Stoller, currently Head of Bachem Americas and previously the company’s long-standing Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), as its new CEO, effective January 1, 2026. She succeeds Thomas Meier, who, after more than thirty years at Bachem and nearly six years as CEO, has decided to take […]
Shilpa Medicare Opens Flow Chemistry Manufacturing Centre
Shilpa Medicare – the full-service contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) – announces the launch of its new flow chemistry Centre of Excellence (CoE) at CPHI Frankfurt. Based at the CDMO’s Bangalore site, the Centre unites cross-functional teams across R&D and manufacturing to accelerate process development, scale-up, and commercial production for continuous flow. The new CoE is staffed by a team […]
Thermo Fisher Scientific to Acquire Clario Holdings, Inc., Enabling Pharma and Biotech Customers to Accelerate Innovation with Deeper Clinical Insights
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Clario Holdings, Inc., a leading provider of endpoint data solutions for clinical trials, from a shareholder group led by Astorg and Nordic Capital, Novo Holding and Cinven, for $8.875 billion in cash at close plus potential additional earnout […]
LOTTE BIOLOGICS and SK pharmteco Sign Strategic Partnership to Strengthen Global ADC CDMO Capabilities
SK pharmteco and LOTTE BIOLOGICS have announced that they have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for a strategic collaboration to strengthen their competitiveness in the global antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) market. Through this collaboration, the two companies will jointly investigate providing integrated, one-stop CDMO services to global clients, offering differentiated ADC solutions that span from […]
CPHI Pharma Awards 2025 Winners Announced
The winners of this year’s CPHI Pharma Awards 2025 were announced last night at a prestigious ceremony celebrating outstanding achievements across pharmaceutical innovation, leadership, manufacturing, sustainability, and women in pharma. The awards ceremony took place at CPHI Frankfurt and welcomed pharma professionals from across the globe. The celebrations recognised groundbreaking advancements, and companies and individuals […]