At Advanced Therapies Europe 2023, BioPharma Reporter caught up with ScaleReady's Jenny Stjernberg to discuss her work at the biotech company, her journey from academia to commercial and female representation in the cell and gene therapies industry....
The UK startup Broken String Biosciences has raised a $15 million Series A round to fund the development of a DNA sequencing platform that maps off-target DNA breaks resulting from genome editing technology.
The contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies has completed a UK manufacturing facility for the production of advanced therapies including viral gene therapies, oncolytic viruses and viral vaccines for...
TherageniX, a University of Nottingham spin out pioneering a dry powder gene therapy formulation for bone graft augmentation, has been awarded a £995,000 grant from Innovate UK.
Synthego, a leading provider of industrialized genome editing solutions, and bit.bio, the company coding human cells for novel cures, have expanded their partnership to build a platform centered on the implementation of synthetic circuitry in cells for...
Kadans Science Partner is set to welcome AviadoBio to its recently completed wet lab innovation and workspace centre at 20 Water Street in Canary Wharf.
Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, Rentschler Biopharma, and Refeyn have announced a new partnership to develop and apply ‘innovative’ process analytical technologies (PAT) to improve the process and efficiency of AAV manufacture.
With so many advanced therapies on the horizon, the next few years are poised to be one of significant progress for patients with over 2000 cell and gene therapies in active clinical trials globally.
AGC Biologics, a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has completed the expansion of its manufacturing space at its Milan Cell and Gene Center of Excellence production site.
BlueRock Therapeutics, a clinical stage cell therapy company, and bit.bio, the company coding human cells for novel cures, have announced a collaboration and option agreement for the discovery and manufacture of iPSC-derived regulatory T cells (Tregs)...
NK:IO, a leader in natural killer (NK) cell biology applied to the development of potent, off-the-shelf cell therapies targeting solid tumors, has raised £1.2m.
Science and technology company Merck has announced the expansion of its facility in Lenexa, Kansas, USA, adding 9,100 sq m2 of lab space and production capability to manufacture cell culture media.
UK immersive technology company FourPlus, along with collaborators Holosphere and the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, have been awarded funding from Innovate UK to create and test a mixed-reality training platform for pharmaceutical and healthcare companies....
A new genetic sequencing technology from Element Biosciences has helped researchers from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), part of the City of Hope, identify the likely genetic causes of disorders in six of nine children from Sonora,...
Donaldson, a provider of filtration products and solutions, has acquired Univercells Technologies, a producer of biomanufacturing solutions for cell and gene therapy research, development, and commercial manufacturing, to broaden its life sciences reach....
Astraveus, the creator of modular, microfluidic cell foundries for cell and gene therapy (CGT) manufacturing, has raised €16.5 million in series seed financing.
Dr. Theresa Heah is the CEO of Intergalactic Therapeutics, bringing over two decades of global leadership experience in ophthalmology drug development along with commercialization in early-stage, private-staged companies. We spoke to her about her background,...
SCTbio, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) specializing in cell-based therapy and viral vectors, has partnered with cell and regenerative medicine specialist Cyto-care.
US biopharma Insmed has announced progress across its early-stage research programs at the company's investor and analyst event, The Future of Rare at Insmed: Functional Genes, AI-Enhanced Proteins, Glowing Algae, and More.
Waters Corporation has officially completed its acquisition of Wyatt Technology, a leading provider of light scattering and field-flow fractionation instruments, software, accessories, and services.
Cellular Origins has partnered with ScaleReady, to automate portions of its cell and gene therapies (CGT) manufacturing workflow using a robotics system for sterile liquid transfer.
Hansa Biopharma and Genethon have entered a research and development collaboration to test imlifidase as a gene therapy treatment in patients with pre-existing neutralizing antibodies.
Mekonos, a biotech platform developing cell therapies, has announced a new research collaboration with bit.bio, a synthetic biology company providing human cells for research, drug discovery and cell therapy.
Cytiva and the life sciences business of Pall Corporation are now united as one business under the Cytiva brand, with the completion of the integration announced this morning. Emmanuel Ligner, Danaher Group Executive, President and CEO of Cytiva, tells...
Bristol Myers Squibb will boost its cell therapy manufacturing network with in-house viral vector production thanks to the acquisition of Novartis’ Libertyville, Illinois facility.
BioMarin Pharmaceutical has opened the expansion of its manufacturing plant at Shanbally, Co. Cork: with the site now able to provide end-to-end manufacturing for a number of the company’s commercial products.
bluebird bio has announced the submission of a Biologics License Application (BLA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for lovotibeglogene autotemcel (lovo-cel) gene therapy in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD).
Aspect Biosystems and Novo Nordisk have announced a collaboration, development, and licence agreement to develop bioprinted tissue therapeutics to replace or repair biological functions in the body: with the aim of creating a ‘new class of truly disease-modifying...
The biotech startup Immune Bridge has bagged $12 million in a seed financing round to drive the development of natural killer (NK) cells that can be used in cell therapies for cancer.
Ginkgo acquires StrideBio's adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsid discovery and engineering platform assets and as well as gaining ownership of a preclinical asset.
Meissner Corporation – a company which manufactures advanced microfiltration and therapeutic manufacturing systems for pharmaceutical drugs, therapeutics, biologics, and cell and gene therapies - will invest nearly $250m in a new manufacturing facility...
Vertex will pay CRISPR Therapeutics $100m up-front for non-exclusive rights to its technology with the goal of developing a certain type of therapy for diabetes.
The White House releases a report detailing how it will harness biotechnology and biomanufacturing to address numerous societal challenges, including human health.
Orgenesis is pairing up with University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to deploy cell and gene therapy mobile processing units and labs across California.
Alpha Teknova Inc is teaming up with Sartorius BIA Separations, part of the Sartorius life sciences group, to help gene therapy companies streamline the downstream purification process.
The new Clinical Biotechnology Centre (CBC) in Bristol will expand the UK’s ability to make clinical grade products for the research and development of new cell and gene therapies.
The extremely high costs of gene therapies are unsustainable, and a global commitment to affordable, equitable access to these treatments is urgently needed, concluded the organising committee of a conference on human genome editing.
