Supplier News

The Novo Nordisk Foundation will invest up to DKK 950 million (€127 million, US$136 million) in a new cell therapy manufacturing facility in Lyngby, Denmark.

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies has finished its new viral vector gene therapy manufacturing facility in Darlington, United Kingdom.

Maik Jornitz, Principal Consultant, BioProcess Resources LLC, discusses how to upgrade facilities in an efficient manner and other highlights from his presentation.

Samsung Biologics and Bristol Myers Squibb have further expanded their strategic manufacturing agreement to include the large-scale manufacture of an antibody cancer drug substance.

CN Bio and LifeNet Health LifeSciences have teamed up to provide direct access to a portfolio of highly characterized hepatic cells for the creation of advanced liver-on-a-chip assays.

Maik Jornitz, Principal Consultant, BioProcess Resources LLC, discusses the definition of patient safety and how to implement new technologies into upgraded facilities.

Rentschler Biopharma’s ATMP business can now offer its full range of services for the clinical supply of AAV, including bioprocess and analytical development through to cGMP manufacturing at the Stevenage facility in the UK.

Illumina’s new solutions center in Bengaluru, India, will expand access to genomics in the country.

Further expansions of the pharmaceutical development and manufacturing services of ten23 are happening at the BASE and VIVA facilities to continue to support complex sterile product development, testing, and manufacturing.

Rentschler Biopharma, CGT Catapult, and Refeyn aim to use automated and digital technologies to improve AAV manufacturing for gene therapies.

Danaher intends to acquire Abcam, a provider of life sciences assays and reagents, for $5.7 billion.

WuXi XDC will provide end-to-end services to support Boostimmune’s discovery of novel bioconjugates.

With this agreement, Chiesi Global Rare Diseases will co-develop drug delivery systems with Aliada Therapeutics for large molecule therapeutics that can cross the blood-brain barrier.

The agreement also lists that AGC Biologics will leverage the company’s monoclonal antibody development and manufacturing experience to perform process transfer, process optimization, and clinical manufacturing of the Asahi Kasei drug substance.

The launch of Alpha Teknova’s new manufacturing facility in Hollister, Calif., increases its capacity for custom reagents for life sciences applications.

Cytomos will use the £4 million in funding to develop its dielectric spectroscopy technology.

The bioreactors can integrate with Emerson’s DeltaV PK Controller in addition to S-Series and M-Series controllers.

Under a manufacturing agreement, Northway Biotech will develop a manufacturing process for iTolerance’s fusion protein in development for regenerative therapy.

Waters XBridge Premier GTx BEH size exclusion chromatography (SEC) columns are designed to improve analysis while lowering the cost of gene therapies.

Kiefel’s new machine is designed to form, fill, and seal up to 6,000 infusion, parenteral nutrition, or dialysis bags per hour.

MilliporeSigma has invested $25 million to expand its cell culture media production facility in Lenexa, Kan.

The goal for Upperton is to become fully operational by Q4 of 2023 for development and non-GMP manufacturing and a target start of GMP operations in January 2024.

German manufacturer metabion is conducting a multi-million euro expansion of its oligonucleotide manufacturing capacity in Munich East.

Camena Bioscience has completed $10 million in Series A financing on the back of growing demand for DNA synthesis.

Thermo Fisher Scientific’s new tumoroid culture medium kit is designed to help cancer researchers better model the disease.

Eurofins Genomics Blue Heron’s novel mRNA synthesis service is designed for customizable applications.

Chime Biologics, Leads Biolabs, and BeiGene have formed a three-way collaboration to advance the development and global manufacturing of Leads Biolabs’ lead mAb candidate, LBL-007.

Donaldson Company’s €136 million (US$148 million) acquisition of Univercells is designed to broaden its portfolio of biomanufacturing solutions.