Manufacturing, Cell Therapies

The HFC Disconnect Series from CPC (Colder Products Company) provides sterile disconnection of tubing used for single-use biopharma and cell and gene therapy manufacturing systems.

A virtual ribbon cutting, tour, and panel discussions were hosted on Oct. 29, 2020 to announce the opening of BioCentriq on the campus of the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, NJ.

Catalent has signed an agreement with Bone Therapeutics for the acquisition of Skeletal Cell Therapy Support SA (SCTS).

Automation, digitalization, and supply-chain strategies help mitigate vulnerabilities in both autologous and allogeneic cell therapy manufacturing.

Orgenesis has completed its previously announced acquisition of Koligo Therapeutics with the additional acquisition of Tissue Genesis’ cell isolation technology, Icellator.

The company’s new closed cell therapy processing system enables scalable, cost-effective development and manufacturing of cell therapies.

The new VirusExpress lentiviral production platform increases dose yields and reduces process development time for cell and gene therapies.

Cytiva will provide the first FlexFactory to be used in the manufacture of pDNA to Akron Bio.

Cellular and gene therapy fields are currently on track for, if not already experiencing, a serious capacity crunch.

Cellnest will join Fujifilm Irvine Scientific’s PRIME-XV portfolio which consists of xeno-free and chemically defined media for stem cell culture.

Catalent will use T-knife´s TCR platform for a T-cell receptor-based cell therapy at its Gosselies, Belgium, site in order to manufacture clinical batches for European trials in 2021.

The new facility will produce cell therapies for clinical evaluation from discovery through to Phase 2b trials while expanding Takeda’s abilities to develop next-generation cell therapies.

The investment will include new manufacturing lines and increased automation to deliver additional manufacturing capacity.

The European Medicines Agency recently approved two European Novartis sites in France and Switzerland for the commercial manufacturing of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell cell therapies.

The early success seen on the market for approved cell and gene therapies poses both technical and manufacturing challenges for pipeline candidates on the road to commercialization.

Manufacturers must address scale-out challenges of autologous cell therapy for commercial manufacturing.

The site can now support customized product and bioprocess development and custom cell and gene therapy reagent manufacturing.

The company will invest $75 million into its Canton, MA, facility to expand its viral vector, gene therapy, and contract development and manufacturing capabilities.

The VIA Capsule from Cytiva is a liquid nitrogen-free cryogenic shipment system designed to transport cell therapies.

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

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.

The center will be located at NJIT’s Life Sciences and Engineering center and will feature two good manufacturing practices suites that are expected to be completed and operational during the summer of 2020.

The companies will collaborate on the discovery and development of next-generation drug and engineered cell therapies focused on natural killer cells.

Thermo Fisher is focused on investing to expand three specific areas of demand: biologics, cell and gene therapy, and drug product development and commercial capabilities.

In January 2020, the agency finalized six clinical development and manufacturing guidance documents and drafted new guidance on what would qualify new gene therapies as orphan drugs.

Tackling process development early on can better optimize manufacturing processes for emerging therapies.

The growing interest in developing cell and gene therapies has prompted industry investment to grow manufacturing capacity.

The last year has seen intense investment activity into raising cell and gene therapy manufacturing capacity.

If approved, the therapy may become the first-choice treatment for relapsing multiple sclerosis patients and will be the first B-cell therapy that can be self-administered using an autoinjector pen.

The companies aim to develop novel cell therapies for treating multiple cancers.