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1. BioNTech to close three sites in Germany after failing to secure a sale 
2. Varda gets $251M to make medicines in space, a long-sought area for drugs
3. Exclusive: SK pharmteco unveils $200M+ investment to expand CDMO capabilities
4. White House takes stock of US-based manufacturing for 86 essential drugs
5. Novo does another small deal, this time with drug delivery biotech Nanexa
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This week's edition won't have our usual manufacturing briefs, but we'll be back next week. See you then!

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Reynald Castaneda
Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
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by Anna Brown

Af­ter months of hunt­ing for po­ten­tial buy­ers of mul­ti­ple man­u­fac­tur­ing sites in Ger­many, BioN­Tech said it will close these fa­cil­i­ties af­ter be­ing un­able to lock...

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by Kyle LaHucik

A Cal­i­for­nia start­up has raised a $251 mil­lion Se­ries D to ad­vance phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal man­u­fac­tur­ing in space, long seen as the next fron­tier for drug de­vel­op­ment...

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by Ayisha Sharma

SK pharmte­co plans to spend at least $200 mil­lion on build­ing out its de­vel­op­ment and man­u­fac­tur­ing in­fra­struc­ture over the next five years, which is ex­pect­ed...

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by Zachary Brennan

The White House­'s Of­fice of Man­age­ment and Bud­get (OMB) is ask­ing for more in­for­ma­tion on the do­mes­tic pro­duc­tion of 86 es­sen­tial med­i­cines, such as the...

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by Elizabeth Cairns

The many No­vo in­vestors hop­ing for a trans­for­ma­tive deal will have to con­tent them­selves with an­oth­er small de­vel­op­ment pact.

The Swedish biotech Nanexa saidThurs­day...

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