In recent weeks, several regulatory decisions on Covid-19 vaccines and boosters have come through that are expected to spur vaccine manufacturing in the near future.
In this ongoing series, Pharmaceutical Technology uses data from GlobalData鈥檚 Pharmaceutical Intelligence Center Deals database and PharmSource reports, along with publicly available news on the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, to analyze which players may be impacted by critical decisions by regulatory agencies. In particular, contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) act as an important stakeholder in the pharma supply chain, given their contracts with pharmaceutical companies to manufacture therapies and vaccines.
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This month鈥檚 edition covers news events from late July to early September on regulatory decisions by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA), along with reimbursement authorities like the UK鈥檚 National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Additionally, this analysis includes some clinical trial results that were released in the same period.
Contracts to manufacture biologic active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), parenteral packaging, solid dose manufacturing, and small molecule APIs, among others, are pursued with CMOs to then contribute toward manufacturing a particular therapy.
Covid-19 Omicron boosters enter the fray
/ vaccine to be used as a booster. Baxter Biopharma, Allergopharma GmbH & Co, Mibe GmbH Arzneimittel, Delpharm SAS, Led dd, Group, , and Patheon by ThermoFisher Scientific, have been assigned to the parenteral manufacturing and packaging of this vaccine. Additionally, EuroAPI, Exelead Inc, Polymun Scientific ImmunbiologischeForschung GmbH, and The Biovac Institute are in charge of the parenteral manufacturing.
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Additionally, in mid-August, the UK鈥檚 Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) also granted a conditional authorization for Moderna鈥檚 Spikevax booster vaccine for adults.
Across the pond, on 31 August, the FDA amended the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) to allow the bivalent formulations of both 鈥檚 Spikevax and /BioNTech鈥檚 Comirnaty to be used as a booster dose. These vaccine boosters contain one original strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and another strain that is common in the BA.4 and BA.5 lineages of the virus鈥檚 Omicron variant.
Source: GlobalData Pharmaceutical Intelligence Center
Note: Refer to the colour chart in the previous image to identify the CMO’s specific responsibility
A few days later, the EMA Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended an expanded conditional marketing authorization for Nuvaxovid Covid-19 vaccine as a booster for adults. The company has also completed an EUA submission for Nuvaxovid鈥檚 use as a homologous and heterologous booster. Several companies, including SK Bioscience, Biofabri, , Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnology, and Mabion SA are tasked with manufacturing the biological API, while Emergent and Jubilant Hollisterstier are in charge of the parenteral manufacturing and packaging.
European Commission and UK regulatory decisions
The UK鈥檚 NICE recommended 鈥檚 enzyme imlifidase to be used to desensitize certain adults before a kidney transplant from a deceased donor. Biotechpharma UAB is tasked with manufacturing the biologic API and parenteral manufacturing and packaging.
Source: GlobalData Pharmaceutical Intelligence Center
Note: Refer to the colour chart in the previous image to identify the CMO’s specific responsibility
In early August, 鈥檚 and PARP inhibitor Lynparza received yet another approval from the European Commission (EC) as an adjuvant treatment for patients with high-risk early-stage breast cancer with germline BRCA1/2 mutations. and Patheon are charged with the solid dose and packaging for the PARP inhibitor, while Jetpharma SA and Lonza Group are manufacturing the small molecule API.
AstraZeneca continued its streak of successful collaborations as news of Enhertu, an antibody drug conjugate (ADC) developed with , gained new approvals in mid-August. While the EMA expanded its use to include HER2+ metastatic breast cancer, the FDA granted approvals for the ADC in HER2-low breast cancer and previously treated HER2-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Baxter Biopharma is contracted for parenteral manufacturing and packaging.
On 5 August, the FDA approved Pfizer and one-pill treatment Myfembree (relugolix) for endometriosis-related pain. Excella GmbH & Co is assigned to manufacture the small molecule API, while Patheon NV and PCI Pharma Services will be doing the solid dose manufacturing and solid dose and packaging, respectively.
To read the previous edition of this series, click here and here.
