North Carolina State University’s Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center (BTEC) will use software developed by LZ Lifesceince to manage manufacturing operations under a deal announced today.
BioLife Solutions has partnered with transportation firm MNX and says it expects increased demand for its biologistics services as more cell therapies enter the clinic.
Regulations, recruitment and facility refits are holding continuous manufacturing back, but a Rutgers’ associate behind J&J’s recent success believes industry can overcome these hurdles.
Single-use is the future but stainless steel bioreactors will always play a role in drug production says an expert, who thinks firms could do worse than consult a CMO before deciding in which technology to invest.
Brammer Biopharmaceuticals and Florida Biologix have merged to create a cell and gene therapy biologics CDMO in preparation for a “tidal wave” of gene therapy products.
The European Pharmacopeia Commission has adopted a revised monograph that allows a broader range of purification methods to be used for the production of water for injectable pharmaceuticals.
As Turkey becomes one of the world’s fastest growing economies, GE Healthcare launches collaborative research scheme to support Turkish biopharmaceutical industry.
Bristol-Myers Squibb has announced plans to set up a biomanufacturing process laboratory in collaboration with Ireland's National Institute of Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT).
The global contract and manufacturing organization (CDMO) announced the construction at a ground breaking ceremony held at its Ravensburg Schuetzenstrasse site.
Celltrion’s supply chain and warehousing procedures ensure the safe storage of Remicade biosimilars as demand fluctuates across markets, the drugmaker says.
MaSTherCell has completed test runs of T-cell therapy Ovasave says TxCell which has reiterated its intention to restart a trial of the drug in Crohn's disease this year.
Protein A is essential in keeping the costs and complexity of purifying monoclonal antibodies down, says GE Healthcare as it extends its supply agreement with Repligen.
Potentially hazardous bio-waste generated at the UK National Biologics Manufacturing Centre (NBMC) in Darlington is being made safe using a bespoke system developed by Suncombe.
Cell Therapy Manufacturing & Gene Therapy Congress - Brussels, Belgium
The shelf life of a cell therapy product is crucial in determining a firm’s manufacturing strategy according to the makers of the first approved stem-cell based drug.
Athenex will invest a minimum of $1.62 bn over the next ten years in labor, materials, and supplies, to create a new manufacturing facility and to expand its North American headquarters.
Cell therapy development and production will not be sustainable unless there is a vendor-led shift to automated processes, said experts in Brussels yesterday.
Reneuron has been granted a US patent for a cryopreservation technology that does not rely on toxic reagents and says it would consider licensing it to other stem cell therapy developers on a case-by-case basis.
Biocision has revamped its cell thawing platform to accommodate larger vial sizes and started developing an automated system for cell therapies in cryopreservation bags.
More plants in China will close says a US-based analyst who predicts that some drugmakers' inability to comply with stricter quality rules will create an opportunity for those that can.
Yan Mei, a defendant charged with stealing GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) trade secrets including biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes, remains at large, a spokesperson for the US Attourney's office told us yesterday.
Sartorius Stedim Biotech has launched a crossflow filtration system for scaling studies and low volume options normally available with process systems.
GE Healthcare has teamed up with the Canadian Government and the Toronto-based Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine develop cell therapy manufacturing technologies.
Having a proactive approach to delivery technologies will give pharma firms a competitive edge against biosimilars and biobetters, according to device maker Bespak.
Protea Biosciences has teamed up with Agilent Technologies to offer drugmakers mass spectrometry alternatives to UV detection in QA/QC of recombinant proteins.
Analytical and downstream technology firm Waters has opened a subsidiary in Malaysia, citing the steady and consistent growth of biopharma in the region as a driver.
New acquisition Sigma Aldrich will play a part in African growth plans in addition to giving it a presence in the preclinical services sector says Merck*.
Takeda has taken a stake in Belgian bioprocessing start-up Univercells as part of a programme aimed at supplying low-cost vaccines to lower-income countries.
A single-use nanofibre-based purification technology could overcome limitations of current chromatography processes says Puridify, which has raised an additional £2.2m ($4m) in funding.
