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Avecia, Pfizer Enter Manufacturing Pact

Avecia Biotechnology has entered an agreement with Pfizer for the commercial supply of a key component of Pfizer’s Macugen (pegaptanib sodium injection).

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By: Tim Wright

Editor-in-Chief, Contract Pharma

Avecia Biotechnology has entered an agreement with Pfizer for the commercial supply of a key component of Pfizer’s Macugen (pegaptanib sodium injection). Pfizer markets the drug in the E.U. for the treatment of wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration. The agreement includes technology transfer, process validation and commercial supply of a key component of Macugen. “The agreement with Pfizer to manufacture a key component of this commercial oligonucleotide-based therapeutic is testament to our e...

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