Manufacturing, Cell Therapies

Charles River Laboratories and Cure AP-4 will collaborate on gene therapy manufacturing for AP-4 hereditary spastic paraplegia.

Forecyte Bio and Cytiva will team up to accelerate the development and manufacturing of cell and gene therapies.

Pfizer and Touchlight have signed a patent license agreement for Pfizer to use Touchlight’s doggybone DNA (dbDNA) in the manufacture of mRNA vaccines, therapeutics, and gene therapies.

In this exclusive Drug Digest video, experts from Roche and MilliporeSigma divulge factors that could influence an organization to pursue specific biomolecules for development.

Inceptor Bio and the University of Minnesota aim to build a novel iPSC platform to accelerate cell therapy drug development.

Precompetitive consortiums seek solutions to industry-wide challenges.

AGC Biologics is investing in viral vector suspension technology at its new Longmont, Colo., facility.

Through a collaboration, Avantor and Cytovance Biologics will accelerate plasmid optimization and sourcing services for viral vectors and mRNA-based vaccines and therapeutics.

In this episode of Drug Digest, Pharmaceutical Technology editors, Felicity Thomas and Feliza Mirasol, examine the topic of emerging therapies in more detail, covering subjects such as the challenges of scale, the potential benefits of drug delivery innovation, importance of early analytical studies, the evolution of the regulatory landscape, and differences between regional regulatory requirements.

Researchers demonstrated a new cell lysis method using a novel solution to improve viral vector production.

Standardization is needed in CAR-T cell therapy development due to its inherent complexity.

Pharmaceutical Technology spoke with Colleen Floreck, vice president, Global Marketing and Strategy, Catalent Cell and Gene Therapy about the specific requirements and challenges for expanding production of viral vectors.

Thermo Fisher Scientific’s new Gibco CTS Xenon Electroporation System aims to provide easier scale up for cell therapies, from clinical development to commercial manufacturing.

Thermo Fisher Scientific's solution for cell and gene therapies involves a combination of cold chain logistics, serialization compliance, and distribution

The collaboration between Bristol Myers Squibb and Century Therapeutics will combine Century’s iPSC-derived allogeneic cell therapy platform with Bristol Myers Squibb’s expertise in cell therapy and oncology drug development.

SKAN’s new Cellana isolator is designed for GMP manufacturing of ATMPs.

Leucid Bio will collaborate with Lonza to use Lonza’s Cocoon Platform for clinical and commercial manufacturing of CAR T cells for Leucid’s lead candidate.

Analytical methods need a boost to ensure quality control for cell and gene therapies.

Part 2—Industry experts from MilliporeSigma, Lonza, Astrea Bioseparations, and Sartorius provide insight and examples about solving critical challenges in both analytics and process development for emerging therapies.

Part 1—Industry experts from MilliporeSigma, Lonza, Astrea Bioseparations, and Sartorius discuss key issues affecting the development of emerging biotherapies.

A new GMP facility in Raleigh, NC, and a starting materials facility in Paris, France, give Cellectis end-to-end, in-house manufacturing capacity for its UCART product candidates.

Avid Bioservices is building a viral vector development and manufacturing facility near its existing biologics manufacturing facility in California.

The $3 million investment will go towards various projects investigating key product attributes for therapeutic proteins.

Repligen and Navigo’s novel ligand could be the first to address antibody aggregation in low pH elution buffers.

AGC Biologics is expanding manufacturing capacity at its Heidelberg, Germany, facility for plasmid DNA and messenger RNA.

Corning’s new Ascent fixed bed reactor (FBR) system is an automated bioproduction platform designed to significantly improve yields and reduce bioproduction costs.

The collaboration will focus on the interactions between WTX-124 indukine and KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab).

Artiva Biotherapeutics’s new R&D and GMP manufacturing center in San Diego, Calif., for NK cell therapies is expected to open in 2022.

Lykan Bioscience and Vineti will combine their capabilities to streamline process development and manufacturing to move cell therapies through clinical phases to commercialization.

Lonza and Sheba Medical Center have successfully dosed four patients with a CD19 autologous CAR-T cell therapy using Lonza’s Cocoon automated manufacturing platform.