MasterControl (Salt Lake City) today announced a $150 million Series A round led by Sixth Street Growth, with a company valuation of $1.3 billion. The money raised will accelerate the development of its quality and manufacturing software as a service offerings serving life sciences customers. MasterControl’s customers include such giants as Pfizer, Cochlear and Thermo Fisher…
Cardinal Health beats The Street in Q1 — with pharma sales up 15%
Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) today reported first-quarter results that beat the consensus forecast on Wall Street, sticking by its full-year EPS guidance. The Dublin, Ohio–based pharma and medtech giant earned $110 million, or 40¢ per share, off $49.6 billion in revenue for the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2022. The bottom line was less than half…
BD secures ISO certification for its information security management system
BD announced today that it has secured ISO certification for its enterprise-level Information Security Management System. The Franklin Lakes, New Jersey–based company said the ISMS meets a rigorous set of independently audited international standards. BD says the ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification demonstrates its commitment to protecting the company, customers and patients from cybersecurity threats. The International…
Biogen beats The Street in Q3 — but revenue down 10%
Biogen (Nasdaq: BIIB) today reported third-quarter results that beat the expectations of Wall Street analysts, upping its full-year guidance. The Cambridge, Massachusetts–based neurological biotech company earned $1.1 billion, or $7.84 per share, off $2.5 billion in revenue for the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2022. It more than tripled its bottom line even as the top…
Grifols kicks off new albumin plant in Dublin
Grifols today is inaugurating a new albumin purification and filling plant at its manufacturing and supply hub in Dublin. Barcelona, Spain–based Grifols said the new facility addresses the growing demand for the plasma-derived medicine. The newly built plant adds more than 183,000 square feet to Grifols’ Dublin facilities. The workforce will increase from 300 to…
Fujifilm establishing cell culture subsidiary in Korea
Fujifilm announced today that it is establishing a Seoul, South Korea–based subsidiary to accelerate its business growth in the cell culture media space. With paid-in capital of ₩300 million (roughly $250,000), the new subsidiary opens tomorrow. It will import cell culture media for bioproduction and advanced cell and gene therapies. Its goal through its direct…
Cardinal Health announces $124M settlement of investors’ opioid suit
Cardinal Health directors’ insurers will pay the company $124 million to settle a stockholder derivative action related to the opioid crisis. The company (NYSE: CAH) on July 22 issued a court-authorized notice to alert investors to a settlement hearing to be held on Oct. 4 in U.S. District Court in Southern Ohio. If the settlement…
Sanofi unveils new campus in Massachusetts
Sanofi announced today that it is officially opening its new 900,000-square-foot campus at Cambridge Crossing in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The new campus brings together 2,500 Sanofi Massachusetts-based employees in a shared space. The goal is to improve collaboration between R&D, Medical, and the Specialty Care business unit — and grow a science-centered, patient-focused culture. The Paris-based…
Pfizer to spend $120M to make COVID-19 oral treatment in U.S.
Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) announced today that it will invest $120 million into its Kalamazoo, Michigan facility to support U.S.-based production of its COVID-19 antiviral Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir/ritonavir). The investment is expected to create more than 250 additional, high-skilled jobs at the Kalamazoo site. The money will expand the production of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) and registered…
MedTrace Pharma moves forward on 15 O-water imaging tech
MedTrace Pharma announced the first person scanned in its Rapid-Water-Flow Phase 3 clinical trial, further testing its tech to bring 15 O-water to imaging. The first subject scan took place at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark, using 15 O-water produced, dosed and injected through MedTrace’s P3 automated delivery system. The clinical trial aims to evaluate…