Manufacturing, Cell Therapies

Sessions address cell therapies, serialization, contract services, and more.

The Berlin-Buch facility will begin manufacture of the company’s immune cell therapy.

Juno's new manufacturing facility in Washington state will support clinical trials for immunotherapies.

Syncona and Kite Pharma announced separate investments into T-cell therapies to fight cancerous tumors.

Catalent announced that it would partner with Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, and its subsidiary MGC Pharma, to promote GPEx technology, a high-titer vector for stable mammalian cell lines.

The Cell Therapy Catapult, a UK non-profit center for advancing cell and gene therapies, will manage the manufacturing center, which will be used for late-phase clinical trials and commercial supply.

On December 8, Pfizer announced that it will establish a research program in gene therapy, and collaborate with Spark Therapeutics in Philadelphia, to develop potential gene therapy treatments for hemophilia.

PharmaCell has finalized its purchase of the cell therapy production facility from TiGenix.

TxCell has received manufacturing accreditation status of its cell-therapy production site in Besancon, France, from the French National Agency for Drug Safety (ANSM).

The author describes automated equipment that uses functionally closed disposables.