Manufacturing

The implementation of Industry 4.0 is projected to save time and cost for designing an optimal manufacturing process.

Interest grows in AI, digitalization, robotics, and sustainability.

A look at using best practice tech transfer methods for CGTs to increase process and analytics robustness while being scalable.

Sara Fathollahi, PhD, product application specialist at DFE Pharma, makes the case of how excipient suppliers can support the transition from batch to continuous manufacturing.

Sara Fathollahi, PhD, product application specialist at DFE Pharma, discusses a major challenge in the adoption of continuous manufacturing.

Sara Fathollahi, PhD, product application specialist at DFE Pharma, points out important redesign concepts critical to adapting continuous manufacturing.

CPHI Barcelona has strong showing as bio/pharma industry moves confidently into 2024.

The winners of the 2023 CPHI Pharma Awards were announced on October 25 at the CPHI Barcelona event.

SCHOTT now offers ViewCell, a new component meant to add flexibility to biopharmaceutical process control.

Spark Therapeutics and SpliceBio have formed a collaboration to develop a gene therapy that can treat an inherited retinal disease.

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has partnered with Forge Biologics, which will manufacture AAVs to help accelerate gene therapy programs in California.

Wheeler plans to use the facility to bolster its mission in helping fledgling biotech innovators and startups accelerate their development at an equitable price.

Chris Spivey, editorial director, hosts a wide ranging discussion on the COVID-19 pandemic response, future government communications, and healthcare funding for mRNA with experts Dr. Kate Broderick, Chief Innovation Officer, Maravai LifeSciences and Dr. Tom Madden, President & CEO at Acuitas Therapeutics. Highlights include supply chain modalities, ensuring a fully trained manufacturing workforce, combining delivery with gene editing innovations, epigenetic approaches to modulate gene expression moving toward the clinic. We conclude with the huge potential for RNA expression of monoclonal antibodies and protein replacement applications.

Sterling is known as a global contract development and manufacturing organization, and their network spreads to a manufacturing site in Cramlington, United Kingdom, a recently GMP-licensed dedicated bioconjugation facility in Deeside, and a 111-acre site in Ringaskiddy, Ireland.

Under an expanded agreement, Cellares will provide proof-of-concept manufacturing for a second CAR-T cell therapy from Bristol Myers Squibb.

The companies will co-promote GSK’s shingles vaccine, Shingrix, to healthcare professionals and points of vaccination in China.

Under this agreement, Acuitas Therapeutics’ LNP technology platform will be transferred to BIOVECTRA for use in manufacturing mRNA-based therapies.

Laks Pernenkil, principal and practice leader, US Life Sciences Product & Supply Operations, Deloitte, discusses the impact that digitalization is having on data generation and data integrity in bio/pharma manufacturing.

The agreement will enable CTMC to strategically scale the recently completed good manufacturing practice facility to drive high-throughput manufacturing utilizing the automated, closed system capabilities of the Fresenius Kabi Lovo and Cue cell processing systems.

Biosynth has further strengthened its peptide division with the acquisition of Pepceuticals.

With the acquisition, Sharp plans on offering fully integrated small-to-medium scale sterile injectable services.

The newly established business under Advent International and Warburg Pincus will be named Simtra BioPharma Solutions.

Drug efficacy, reputation, and financial return are all on the line when it comes to fill/finish.

A survey was conducted to examine the adoption of machine learning and artificial intelligence in the bio/pharma manufacturing industry.

Using a systematic approach and achieving run-to-run consistency are essential.

The innovation of affinity ligands must take stability into consideration for present and future purification applications.

The steady rise in popularity of gene therapies and other biologics is the underlying reason for the growing importance of aseptic manufacturing processes in the biopharmaceutical industry.

With the two new GMP-grade mRNA manufacturing sites in Germany, MilliporeSigma can now offer fully integrated mRNA services.

Under a new pact, Genentech and PeptiDream will collaborate to discover and develop novel peptide-radioisotope drug conjugates.

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.