Manufacturing

Ori Biotech is partnering with manufacturers and materials suppliers to develop an automated system for cell and gene therapy manufacturing.

Vibalogics is contracted to manufacture Janssen's COVID-19 candidate vaccine at its GMP-accredited facility in Cuxhaven, Germany.

Leadership was announced for the US government’s Operation Warp Speed program, which aims to deliver COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics.

The company will invest $180 million to construct a new 290,000-ft2 facility in Plainville, MA.

Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions and apceth Biopharma entered into long-term development and manufacturing services agreements for the clinical and commercial supply of multiple bluebird bio therapies.

Remote, machine health monitoring services reduce the need for on-site visits.

Catalent will manufacture a mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine for clinical trials and potential commercialization.

The companies have entered into a manufacturing agreement to supply leronlimab, an investigational new drug currently being used in clinical trial protocols for COVID-19.

FDA’s EUA provides the first new treatment for COVID-19 patients with severe symptoms.

The ASTM standard describes how to evaluate single-use systems for foreign particle analysis.

The new cell-line producing platform enables fully scalable production of high-performance adeno-associated virus vectors.

The goal of the collaboration is to manufacture up to one billion does per year of mRNA-1273, Moderna’s vaccine against the novel coronavirus.

Pumps and other components meet the demands of single-use systems in biopharmaceutical downstream processing.

Will moving at “warp speed” to develop a vaccine impact efficacy or safety?

Synthetic biology has advanced the scope and scale with which biologically derived therapeutics can be developed.

Viral vectors show promise as a delivery mechanism for gene therapy, but which virus types are commercially viable?

Catalent and Johnson & Johnson announce joint investment and tech transfer to prepare for rapid scale-up and segregated cGMP commercial manufacturing capacity.

Solentim and ATUM will bundle together the Leap-In Transposase platform with the VIPS single cell cloning instrument for cell line development.

MilliporeSigma’s Bio4C Software Suite combines process control, analytics, and plant-level automation.

With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Batavia’s low-cost vaccine manufacturing process will be used to produce Wistar’s drug substance and drug product formulations, to be distributed to vaccine manufacturers.

The company will build an additional commercial-scale, contract manufacturing facility for viral vectors and gene therapies near its existing site in Carlsbad, CA.

This milestone achievement will allow the companies to move forward with developing a GMP-compliant manufacturing process for clinical testing.

Dutch company HALIX has announced it is joining a consortium of partners that are all under the guidance of the University of Oxford to provide good manufacturing practice (GMP) manufacturing services for a COVID-19 vaccine.

ISPE’s Facility of the Year Awards for 2020 go to bio/pharma companies in eight award categories, including two winners in the new Social Impact category.

New bioreactor designs, coupled with better media, process intensification and analytics, continue to improve upstream bioprocessing.

Experience, communication, collaboration, transparency, planning, and prioritization contribute to success.

A variety of assays should be used to detect bacterial, fungal, and viral contaminants in the human source cells used for cell therapies.

The new patented process results in uniform, scalable production and the ability to deliver cell cargo similar to natural exosomes/extracellular vesicles.

More sustainable and functional packaging protects temperature-sensitive drugs.

Single-use solutions continue to grow in popularity, largely as a result of the cost and time efficiencies they can afford biopharma companies.