Outsourcing

New training facilities, laboratories, packaging, gene therapy manufacturing, and biologics manufacturing highlight Thermo Fisher Scientific expansions.

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies will add a new building, including gene therapy laboratories, to its facility in College Station, TX.

Contract manufacturers are making strategic partnerships and expanding services in the last quarter of 2019.

Lonza, through its Ibex Solutions, will now cover preclinical and clinical development and manufacturing for a significant portion of Genmab’s pipeline.

The new services provide rapid production of antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) for best candidate selection.

BioPharm International spoke with Marybeth Reynoso, senior director, early development strategic operations at PPD about the direction the industry is taking regarding the outsourcing of early development operations to contract research organizations (CROs).

Learning to think with the end in mind will help clients and their selected CRO to design and conduct the right studies.

FDA issued a statement about the importance of reporting adverse events resulting from the use of compounded drugs.

The new antibody, Citryll’s CIT-013, could offer new treatment options for various human diseases including lupus, vasculitis, pulmonary fibrosis, and organ damage due to sepsis.

CDMOs are adding facilities and services to their portfolios in anticipation of the biologics industry’s continued growth.

Alvotech and Prestige Biopharma, have announced the formation of a new contract manufacturing partnership for the commercial production of a biosimilar.

BioPharm International spoke with Cindy Reiss-Clark, vice president, general manager, Biologics at West Pharmaceutical Services Inc., about the growing biologics market, specifically gene therapies, and how West is helping their clients prepare for these new trends.

Nephron Pharmaceuticals is partnering with Clemson University to create a robotic solution for syringe-filling automation to enhance sterile manufacturing.

Using Alternating Tangential Flow in a 3000-L perfusion bioreactor, the company expects to reduce production time by up to 30%

The company has launched new services for mammalian cell bank manufacturing under GMP conditions.

Using advanced HDX-MS and native MS techniques can improve the identification of potentially successful biologic drugs and de-risk CMC and clinical designs.

Catalent Biologics has entered into a long-term strategic agreement to develop and manufacture an AveXis gene therapy treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), Zolgensma. 

Catalent recently held a groundbreaking ceremony at its Bloomington, Indiana pharmaceutical fill/finish site.

Novavax will sell two Maryland-based vaccine development and manufacturing facilities for Catalent’s expanding gene therapy footprint.

The increasing growth in the cell- and gene-therapy markets is inspiring CDMOs to expand their services in this emerging biologic drug arena.

Catalent will manufacture products for Bristol-Myers Squibb while adding sterile biologics fill/finish and oral solids manufacturing and packaging capacity.

Lyophilization Services of New England acquired a sterile injectables manufacturing facility in León, Spain.

Dual-sourcing and redundant manufacturing capabilities are crucial in a single-use supply chain strategy, but must be applied correctly.

Simple components help maintain physical integrity throughout a bioprocess setup, and single-use components play a role in ensuring a closed system for aseptic processing.

Single-use systems offer a solution to the challenges inherent in buffer preparation, which can be the cause of bottlenecking in bioprocessing.