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        Cell and gene therapy professionals gathered in Miami last month to discuss new manufacturing approaches for these up-and-coming treatments. 
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        After a slow start to 2023 in an uncertain economic climate, biopharma mergers and acquisitions are on the rise.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Mergers and acquisitions are trending upward as Novo Nordisk, Gilead, and Johnson & Johnson kick off the year with big deals. AI and other scientific advances will likely be the focus of M&As yet to come.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Analysts say Novo Holdings made the right decision last week in scooping up the CDMO to increase manufacturing capacity for Novo Nordisk’s diabetes and weight-loss drugs. 
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        While analysts are bullish on Novo Holdings’ $16.5 billion acquisition of Catalent, they say it raises questions for companies that have contracted the CDMO for manufacturing. 
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The company’s fiscal report for 2023 details revenue losses of $539 million and layoffs of 1,100 employees but notes that future GLP-1 manufacturing revenues could help stabilize its finances.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Exelixis has inked a licensing agreement with Catalent to gain access to three of Catalent’s target programs with antibody and ADC candidates, the companies announced Thursday.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        A recent research report points to the CDMO market heating up. P&S projected the global biologics CDMO market would hit $31.839 million by 2030.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Several biopharma companies are closing out the month of April with expansions to facilities, including a $3 billion investment to develop next-generation life science ecosystems.
    
        
    
        
    
        
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