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The Friday Brief for May 22, 2026: Acquisitions and AI in Focus

 
The Friday Brief for May 22, 2026: Acquisitions and AI in Focus

One Top 20 company is deploying Claude's services across some 30,000 employees.
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Pinnaql Acquires Pharma Resource Group, Expanding Core Service Area Depth

The acquisition follows that of VEG by the 3 Boomerang Capital portfolio company in August 2025.

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Boost Biosimilar Yields with Efficient-Pro Medium

See how Fresenius Kabi boosted titers, improved glycans, and reduced variants with Gibco Efficient-Pro Medium—ready for scale.

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Oxford Nanopore and Lonza Launch mRNA QC Solution for GMP Testing

Combines direct RNA sequencing, machine learning, and automated analysis to simplify GMP.

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Amgen CFO Transition as Peter Griffith Retires, Thomas Dittrich Returns

The succession will be complete by end of summer 2026, but Griffith will remain with the company until January.

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[WEBINAR] From Powder to Coated Tablet: Practical Considerations for Solid Dose Manufacturing

Join Contract Pharma on June 16 as experts from Techceuticals and JRS Pharma explore the manufacturing process behind coated tablets, covering key unit operations, material selection, formulation requirements, and the fundamentals of producing tablets suitable for coating.

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Gilead Renews WHO Partnership to Fight Deadly Kala-Azar

Five-year agreement expands treatment access and support for visceral leishmaniasis in East Africa and other high-burden regions.

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[WATCH NOW] Flexible Innovation for Complex Molecules

In this Contract Pharma VideoBite, Evotec’s team reveals how flexible innovation is unlocking improved solubility and bioavailability for complex molecules across modern drug development.

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Praxis Packaging Solutions

Contract packaging demands flexibility, efficiency, and control. At Praxis, we deliver all three through the innovative, cost effective application of manual labor and the skillful use of automated and custom packaging equipment. We've been doing so for about a quarter century. Our OTC/Rx pharmaceutical, consumer products, and medical device customers choose us for four reasons: a relentless focus on compliance, astonishing speed-to-market, unyielding accountability, and significant category experience. At Praxis, we don't just deliver innovative, turnkey packaging solutions. We provide them while exceeding our customers' expectations, while managing their critical deadlines, and while upholding rigorous regulatory and quality standards. You could call it agility; we call it Managed Rapid Response, and here at Praxis, it's at the heart of what we do. Upholding standards is so deeply engrained at Praxis that, since the company was formed, we've had exactly zero recalls.

 

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SGS North America, Inc.

SGS supports pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical clients from development through commercialization with a comprehensive portfolio of expert-led GMP quality control and analytical testing services for raw materials, APIs, packaging components, and finished drug products. Our teams apply disciplined science and regulatory expertise across small and large molecule programs to support product characterization, comparability, stability, and final GMP product release.