After posting revenue growth of 39%, Repligen CEO suggests this was driven by filtration and chromatography franchises, particularly customers in gene therapy.
The newly separate business will include women’s health, legacy brands, and biosimilar units, as the main part of the business retains oncology, vaccines, hospital and animal health.
Aiming to facilitate and accelerate discovery of biologics, Aridis’ Apex platform can also discover antibodies against viruses ‘within one day of a pandemic’.
Capital expenditure is rising across the pharma industry as portfolios and pipelines shift towards biologics, but the largest companies are sticking to in-house production.
Year-on-year, the number of trials for advanced therapeutics has doubled, meaning that the UK now represents 12% of all global clinical trials in the area.
The newly established deal includes the co-development of up to three T-cell therapies, by utilizing the latter’s stem-cell derived allogeneic T-cell platform.