Manufacturing, Cell Therapies

Prior to this announcement, Rentschler announced in September 2024 it would be launching an expanded service offering at its advanced therapies site in Stevenage, UK, which is now being shut down.

Under the partnership, the companies will combine fully automated and digitalized technologies aimed at reducing CGT manufacturing timelines to 2.5 days.

The collaboration will combine Cytiva’s CGT manufacturing technologies with Cellular Origins' robotic manufacturing platform.

Jane True, Dr Andreas Kuhn, and Dr Andy Geall discuss mRNA risks, costs, effectiveness, manufacturing logistics, public messaging, and regulatory challenges.

Although specifics about the milestone were not immediately provided, Scribe is eligible to receive more than $1.2 billion for certain research, development, regulatory, and commercial benchmarks.

The transaction adds a pipeline of early-stage drug candidates against high-value targets to Telix’s portfolio, along with other novel targets currently in the discovery stage.

Bob Schrock, PhD, senior director, global head of Process Development, at Lonza provides insight on how process controls change during development through commercialization, how cell harvesting can be optimized, and which validation and/or qualification studies are performed for cell culture.

Contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) are more critical than ever as the demand for advanced therapies continues to grow.

Bob Schrock, PhD, senior director, global head of Process Development, at Lonza provides insight on how cell culture processes may be optimized and what kind of process studies are performed for cell culture.

Synthesis of DNA via cell-free methods has many benefits versus fermentation.

The company officially launched new production suites, a revamp of its development labs, and more at its Thousand Oaks, Calif., cell therapy manufacturing facility.

TrakCel's OCELLOS, an IT platform, has been selected to orchestrate the administration of five out of seven autologous or matched allogenic cell therapy products approved or expected to be approved in 2024.

With the launch of the Institute for Cell Therapy Discovery and Innovation, the MD Anderson Cancer Center will bring together expertise in developing cell therapies for cancer, autoimmune diseases, and infections.

In this episode of the Ask the Expert video series, Peter Walters, Fellow of Advanced Therapies at CRB Group, discusses how facilities used for solid dosage manufacturing may be retrofitted into sustainable cell and gene therapy production facilities.

Cell and gene therapy experts Fabian Gerlinghaus, Dr. Claudia Zylberberg, and Benjamin McLeod weigh in on hot topics in CGT.

Cell and gene therapy experts Fabian Gerlinghaus, Dr. Claudia Zylberberg, and Benjamin McLeod weigh in on hot topics in CGT.

Cell and gene therapy experts Fabian Gerlinghaus, Dr. Claudia Zylberberg, and Benjamin McLeod weigh in on hot topics in CGT.

Innovative solutions are making personalized cell and gene therapies accessible to all.

In this episode of the Ask the Expert video series, Peter Walters, Fellow of Advanced Therapies at CRB Group, discusses factors to be considered in constructing a new facility for cell and gene therapy production as well as using an existing facility to expand cell and gene therapy pipelines.

The two companies are partnering to provide logistics and manufacturing services to biotechnology and pharma companies.

Under the long-term supply agreement, Lonza will manufacture CASGEVY (exagamglogene autotemcel) for Vertex at its facility in Geleen, the Netherlands, and plans to expand manufacturing to Portsmouth, NH, in the United States.

The next-generation IRO platform was found to significantly outperform the legacy Prodigy system, showing improvements in cell growth, CAR+ cell yield, and overall efficiency.

Emerging therapies, such as cell and gene therapies, come with unique challenges that must be planned for in advance.

The latest developments in emerging therapies, including new innovations and collaborative efforts in manufacturing.

Viral vectors and other complex biologic modalities require more specificity and higher sensitivity to detect and distinguish contaminants.

Rentschler Biopharma now offers a new lentiviral vector manufacturing toolbox at its site in Stevenage, UK.

The biopharma industry is seeking ways to apply cell and gene therapies to mass patient populations.

BioIVT has launched new cleanroom manufacturing space using Germfree’s technology that boosts its cell and gene therapies development capabilities.

Pluri’s newly launched CDMO business will manufacture two novel cell therapy product candidates for Kadimastem.

CGT manufacturing processes need automation as well as standardization, according to Lonza’s Joe Garrity and Jerry Jiang.