{"id":2899,"date":"2025-12-30T17:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allesleypharmacy.co.uk\/pharmacy\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:26:12","slug":"big-moves-in-the-medicine-world-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allesleypharmacy.co.uk\/pharmacy\/big-moves-in-the-medicine-world-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Moves in the Medicine World: What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello there! I&#8217;m a pharmacist, and I&#8217;m here to help you understand some recent news in the pharmaceutical industry. Let&#8217;s break it down together!<\/p>\n<p>Alnylam is putting $250 million into making more of a special kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/allesleypharmacy.co.uk\/pharmacy\/product\/erythromycin\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"52\" title=\"Erythromycin\">medicine<\/a> called RNAi in the US. They&#8217;re adding new tech to their place in Massachusetts that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"fda\">FDA<\/a> is excited about.<\/p>\n<p>Gaelic Labs is teaming up with another company in Ireland to make more of a common type of antibiotic called beta lactam.<\/p>\n<p>Thermo Fisher Scientific is growing in Asia. They&#8217;re investing in places like India, Korea, and Singapore to help the biopharma sector there.<\/p>\n<p>CSL just opened a huge $1 billion place in Melbourne, Australia. It&#8217;s one of the few places in the world that can make advanced flu vaccines using cells.<\/p>\n<p>People are talking about how to make both old and new types of medicines. It&#8217;s a balancing act!<\/p>\n<p>Biovectra and Revolution Biomanufacturing are working together on something called mRNA. This is a big deal for making new medicines.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a big meeting coming up in D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany. They&#8217;re adding talks about AI in labs and making sure medicines are high quality.<\/p>\n<p>BioDuro just hired a new global president for something called CMC. He used to work at another company called Porton Pharma Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Merck, a big German pharma company, just signed a deal to use renewable energy in South Korea. They&#8217;re trying to be more green!<\/p>\n<p>Novartis, a Swiss pharma company, just opened another place in California to make a special kind of medicine called radioligands.<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer is trying to buy a company called Metsera. They make medicines for weight loss, and it&#8217;s a big deal in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>AstraZeneca is also working on weight loss medicines. They just made a deal to compete with Pfizer and Novo Nordisk.<\/p>\n<p>Galapagos, a company from Belgium, is changing their focus. They&#8217;re going to make more small molecule and biologic medicines and less cell therapy medicines. Sadly, this means they have to let go of most of their workers.<\/p>\n<p>Chiesi just made their place in France bigger. They make inhalers there, and now they can make even more.<\/p>\n<p>Hovione is putting $100 million into their place in New Jersey. They&#8217;re making a special kind of medicine using something called spray drying.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now! Remember, I&#8217;m always here to help you understand the world of medicine. Stay healthy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello there! I&#8217;m a pharmacist, and I&#8217;m here to help you understand some recent news in the pharmaceutical industry. 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