Manufacturing Brief

Having secured deals with AstraZeneca and Novartis, Niowave is constructing a second facility to meet rising demand for actinium-225, which can be used to develop next-generation radiopharmaceuticals.
The agreement is the largest in a series of deals that Gilead Sciences has penned with Korea’s Yuhan.
By partnering with a UN-backed body, Roche has enabled companies to make the medicine for supply in 129 countries.
While the manufacturer is on the list of authorized GLP-1 importers, FDA inspectors found the company relabeled APIs from another site in a potential attempt to “circumvent safeguards.”
Nusano will bring a massive new radioisotope facility in Salt Lake City online by the end of the year, establishing a supply of starting materials for the next generation of radiopharmaceuticals.
A batch of a chemotherapy product made at a Sun facility with a history of quality and compliance issues is being withdrawn from the U.S. market.
MacroGenics is selling the manufacturing plant to Bora, a Taiwan-based CDMO, to raise cash to support the progress of its drug development pipeline.
While Daiichi Sankyo brought in $13.4 billion in 2025, setbacks forced the company to update its antibody-drug conjugate forecast, pushing demand below the minimum supply agreed upon with CMOs and prompting the cancellation of an in-house investment.
Eli Lilly’s latest manufacturing expansion will support production of obesity blockbusters and next-gen assets, while the new Lilly Lebanon Advanced Therapies site will take experimental genetic medicines from research to commercialization.
Implemented as part of a broader initiative to make more targeted and efficient use of inspection resources, the pilot program will use artificial intelligence to enable shorter, focused screenings to complement standard FDA inspections.
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