Rentschler Biotechnologie has increased single-use bioreactor capacity at its manufacturing site in Laupheim, Germany and is moving forward with plans to invest €25m ($27m) in a new stainless steel system in the next few months.
Athersys and Chugai Pharmaceutical have announced a partnership and license agreement to exclusively develop and commercialize MultiStem cell therapy for ischemic stroke in Japan.
Chicago-based Rottendorf Pharmaceuticals, a top 20 contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has signed three formulation development projects and two commercial transfer projects with multiple top pharma and biotech companies in the...
Hemispherx has installed a 600 litre bioreactor at its manufacturing facility in New Jersey and plans to seek approval to restart production of its alpha interferon product, Alferon N Injection.
XstalBio, a private biopharma services company, has patented the use of stabilisers in the manufacture of dry powders for biopharmaceuticals – an alternative to freeze-drying or spray-drying techniques.
Australian stem cell and regenerative medicine company Cynata Therapeutics is now set to scale up manufacturing of its mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) for therapeutic use.
Cell-based cancer immunotherapy company Juno Therapeutics has entered into a lease agreement for a manufacturing facility in Bothell, Washington to produce its developing cell therapies.
Abenza subsidiary Antitope has extended its relationship and will provide manufacturing cell lines for two developing HIV vaccines from the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM); the National Health Agency for Research on AIDS...
Sanofi has selected Boehringer-Ingelheim to manufacture monoclonal antibodies in an agreement that extends to the French drugmaker's partner Regeneron.
SAFC’s dry powder cell culture media facility in Scotland opened for business this week a little under two years after the US supplier began expanding the site.
GE Healthcare has pledged its support and technology to a national £55m ($86m) Cell Therapy manufacturing centre in Stevenage, UK, set to launch in 2017.
Peregrine Pharmaceuticals is expanding its contract manufacturing capacity to meet growing client demand and to produce its own monoclonal antibody bavituximab, the company has revealed.
Horizon Discovery Group announced Monday that its bioproduction division has shipped its first commercially available engineered CHO (Chinese Hamster Ovary) cell line for use in manufacturing of antibodies.
An API facility in Singapore acquired by AbbVie on the site where it is building a $320m biologics plant will support the firm's antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) pipeline.
Novartis says it will keep biomanufacturing in-house and outsource more production of its small molecule portfolio in a strategy mirroring its Big Pharma peers.
Bristol-Myers Squibb has announced plans to build a biologics facility in Ireland, eight months after winding down a small molecule API plant at the same site.
Repligen has invested $4m (€3.2m) in its Massachusetts manufacturing facility in order to support the fermentation cell retention technology acquired from Refine.
Extractables & leachables are the number one problem holding back the adoption and scale-up of single-use technology, according to a WuXi Apptech Director.
The products, unveiled at BioProcess International in Boston this week, will help industry with their upstream and downstream processing and include an anti-CHO host cell protein detection kit, the first single-use fermentor, and a new mammalian expression...
Close relationships between vendors and biomanufacturers are critical according to Sartorius, which was been awarded an accolade for the design of WuXi AppTec’s biologics production facility in China.
Increased efficiency, local manufacturing and specialty products are driving demand for smaller more flexible facilities, according to bioprocessing consultant Howard Levine.
Despite a $17bn bid from Merck KGaA, it’s “business as usual” at Sigma-Aldrich which has signed a distribution agreement with reagent-based microbial growth systems firm BioSilta.
Fujifilm has launched a mammalian cell line it says can deliver titers up to 3g/L before subsequent optimisation and will complement its microbial-based platform.
Biomanufacturing costs and the risk of extractables and leachables can be reduced by developing more compatible plastics, Sabic told Biopharma-Reporter.com at CPhI in Paris.
Development of continuous fermentation has been driven by the increased production of monoclonal antibodies says GEA, with Asia-Pacific the new growth driver for such technologies.
Novartis has shipped the first of its cell-culture - rather than chicken egg - based vaccines for the 2014-2015 flu season from its North Carolina facility.
Life science sector consolidation is a concern for some biomanufacturers, who say mega mergers like Merck KGaA’s $17bn acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich will limit their ability to negotiate on prices.
Merck KGaA has continued its diversification effort with a $17bn (€13bn) bid for Sigma Aldrich that will see it battle Thermo Fisher and GE Healthcare for a share of the life sciences tools and supplies market.
Protalix shares rocketed 18% then reversed in one weekend after the Israeli protein manufacturer clarified it is not in talks to produce Ebola drug ZMapp.
CDMO ProBioGen has invested €20m ($26m) in its manufacturing plant in Germany and says it will install two 1,000L single-use bioreactors and employ roughly 75 new staff.
Contract manufacturer CMC Biologics and Zymeworks have entered into a master services agreement whereby CMC will perform the process development, formulation development and cGMP clinical manufacturing of a recombinant human IgG1 bi-specific (heterodimeric)...
The environmental impact of single-use biosystems remains lower than stainless steel despite difficulties in the disposal of bioreactor bags, says Sartorius.
Biopharmas scaling-up production should use fluid dynamics to make better predictions about bioreactor performance according to one expert, who says engineers can use it to test multiple configurations more rapidly.
