“The Almac Group has announced the completion of two new purpose-built facilities at its headquarters in Craigavon, Northern Ireland meeting client demand in commercial manufacturing and packaging as well as peptide production.” Please check out this article for more details.
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The Generic Industry Faces External Regulatory Challenges
Check out this article with insights from the regulatory experts at Lachman Consultants.
CoreRx to Acquire Societal CDMO in $130M Deal
CoreRx Inc. has agreed to acquire Societal CDMO, Inc., a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) dedicated to solving complex formulation and manufacturing challenges primarily in small molecule therapeutic development, in a deal valued at approximately $130 million. To learn more, please check out this article from Contract Pharma.
Ginkgo Bioworks Acquires Patch Biosciences
Ginkgo Bioworks has acquired Patch Biosciences, which has built an AI platform for sequence design that enables more effective, specific, and durable genetic medicines and was backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health, Casdin Capital, and S32. See more details on the acquisition here.
Andelyn Biosciences Selected as AVV Manufacturing Partner
Andelyn Biosciences Inc., a cell and gene therapy Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), has been selected to manufacture adeno-associated vectors (AAV) therapies in its suspension platform for several programs under the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) Bespoke Gene Therapy Consortium (BGTC). See more details here
How to Screen for Company Culture Fit
Do you think about Company Culture when you are interviewing? If not, you need to be. For success with long term hiring, making sure the person can do the job is key, but what if they don’t fit with the company mission or goals? Ignoring this fact can set you up for disappointment down the… Read more »
A Practical Reminder: We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know
My wife and I have been together for my entire 10 year career in Recruiting. I have changed industries from telecom/wireless to IT to pharma/biotech currently. Most of the time, she at least knows the industry I am recruiting in, but when people ask her what I do, that is about as far as she… Read more »
Your Star Candidate Has a Noncomplete! What Now?
While local rules vary, noncompetition agreements are still widely prevalent in commercial positions. While these agreements can be very limiting to a candidate, they can also open up the door for liability for the hiring company. This article does a great job of explaining how to handle these situations.
Avoid the Hiring “Buzzwords” in Your Next Job Posting
Do you get interview-worthy candidates from your job postings? Do you get any candidates at all? Are you making the same mistake as the majority of the people out there posting jobs? Buzzwords like “Growth,” “Exciting,” “Motivated,” and “Start-up” are thrown around like they are going to make you unique and different when in reality… Read more »
The New Challenge for a Remote Workforce: Remote Onboarding
The global COVID-19 pandemic is impacting all of us. Companies who may have been resistant to remote working were thrown into the new reality. Initially, hiring wasn’t a priority, but as we get back to addressing hiring needs there are new factor to consider. How do you remotely onboard a new employee? Many companies have… Read more »