Avecia, a pharmaceutical manufacturer in Milford, says it is building what will become the largest manufacturing site in the world for a specialized drug ingredient called oligonucleotide. The expansion, which will add 20,000 square feet of space, will more than double the Milford site’s total capacity, the company said in a recent announcement. Oligonucleotide, a […]

The MassBioEd Foundation released its 2017 Annual Job Trends Forecast at Life Sciences Workforce 2017, its second annual conference on life sciences workforce trends.  The event was held at Northeastern University and featured twenty-seven industry and higher education speakers, as well as Lt. Governor Karyn Polito, who provided keynote remarks. The Forecast included the following […]

Novartis has announced that the FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) unanimously (10-0) recommended approval of CTL019 (tisagenlecleucel), an investigational chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy, for the treatment of children and young adults with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) that has relapsed or resisted treatment (r/r). A Biologics License Application (BLA) for this […]

Alnylam and Sanofi Genzyme have announced new positive results from the ongoing Phase 2 study with fitusiran in patients with hemophilia A and B, with or without inhibitors. Fitusiran is an investigational RNAi therapeutic targeting antithrombin (AT) for the treatment of patients with hemophilia A and B, that is designed to lower levels of AT […]

Novartis has announced topline results from the global Phase 3 CANTOS study investigating the efficacy, safety and tolerability of ACZ885 (canakinumab) in combination with standard of care in people with a prior heart attack and inflammatory atherosclerosis. With more than 10,000 patients enrolled in the study over the last six years, CANTOS is one of […]