Novartis vaccine plant takes top ISPE award; More pleas for illegit Botox sales;

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> Novartis' ($NVS) US Flu Cell Culture facility in Holly Springs, NC, was named the overall winner of the 2013 Facility of the Year Awards by the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE). Report

> Hikma has rasied its forecast as its sales surge on strong demand for doxycycline, which the FDA says has been hard to get. Story

> Drugmaker Granules India has agreed to buy API maker Auctus Pharma. Story

> Belgian biotech company TiGenix is in advanced talks to sell its Dutch manufacturing facility. Story

> Capsugel will invest $20 million to expand the spray-drived dispersion manufacturing capacities of Bend Research, which it acquired last month. Report

And Finally... The feds have extracted guilty pleas from two more sales reps at Gallant Pharma International, based in Arlington, VA, for selling misbranded Botox and chemo drugs. Release