Inovio Pharmaceuticals (NSDQ:INO) announced that Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE:TMO) will manufacture its COVID-19 vaccine candidate. Plymouth Meeting, Pa.-based Inovio said in a news release yesterday that Thermo Fisher signed a letter of intent to manufacture the INO-4800 COVID-19 vaccine candidate, joining a consortium of third-party manufacturers that aim to produce 100 million doses of Inovio’s vaccine by […]
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BREAKING: Thermo Fisher drops bid for Qiagen
Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE:TMO) announced today that its offer to acquire Qiagen (NYSE:QGEN) in an $11.5 billion deal has lapsed. According to a news release, more than 107.5 million shares of Qiagen (47.02% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares for the company) were validly tendered into the offer by the end of the acceptance period on Aug. […]
Thermo Fisher rises on COVID-19 response-driven Q2
Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE:TMO) shares got a boost today on second-quarter results that came in well above the consensus forecast. The Waltham, Mass.-based company posted profits of $1.2 billion, or $2.90 per share, on sales of $6.9 billion for the three months ended June 27, 2020, for a 3.3% bottom-line gain on sales growth of 9.5%. […]
Thermo Fisher projects 10% increase in Q2 sales
Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE:TMO) announced today that it estimates revenue growth for its recently ended second quarter to total approximately 10%. Waltham, Mass.-based Thermo Fisher said in a news release that its reported and organic sales growth for the quarter (ended June 27) was primarily driven by global sales of PCR-based tests and other products and […]
Owlstone Medical partners with Thermo Fisher Scientific for breath biopsies
Owlstone Medical last week announced that it has forged a partnership with Thermo Fisher Scientific‘s (NYSE:TMO) to advance non-invasive breath sampling in disease detection. Through the agreement, both companies will integrate the Thermo Scientific Q Exactive GC Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap MassSpectrometer into Owlstone Medical’s Breath Biopsy platform. The collaboration will hopefully qualify the mass analyzer for […]
Thermo Fisher to buy Irish drug manufacturing site from GSK for $101m
Thermo Fisher Scientific‘s (NYSE:TMO) said today that it inked a deal to acquire a Cork, Ireland-based drug substance manufacturing site from GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) for approximately $100.6 million (EU €90 million). Waltham, Mass.-based Thermo Fisher said that the acquisition of the new site will allow it to expand capacity and meet customer demand for both the development and […]
FDA approves diagnostic that simultaneously screens for multiple cancer biomarkers
The FDA said today that it awarded premarket approval to Thermo Fisher Scientific‘s (NYSE:TMO) next-gen sequencing-based test that can simultaneously screen tumor samples for biomarkers associated with 3 approved therapies for non-small cell lung cancer. The company’s Oncomine Dx Target Test evaluates 23 genes associated with non-small cell lung cancer. The tests results could help […]
