Avid Bioservices, Inc., a subsidiary of Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc., has extended its commercial manufacturing supply agreement with Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. Under the terms of the contract amendment, Avid could manufacture as many as 20 runs per year during the next five years of a recombinant human enzyme that is the active ingredient in Halozyme’s marketed products, Hylenex and Cumulase. Avid began manufacturing commercial product for Halozyme under cGMP in 2004. “We a...