CDMO Rentschler Biotechnologie has added GE's 1000th ÄKTAprocess, which is an automated liquid chromatography system built for process scale-up and large-scale biopharma, at its site in Laupheim, Germany.
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.
Turkey’s efforts to increase local biopharmaceutical production have prompted GE Healthcare Life Sciences to set up a biopharmaceutical technology training centre in Istanbul.
GE Healthcare and iBio are in talks about future projects after confirming they are working on a plant-based vaccine manufacturing site for Brazilian drugmaker Fiocruz/Bio-Manguinhosin.
GE Healthcare has started designing a vaccine manufacturing facility for an unnamed drug company, just days after expanding its collaboration with plant-cell production technology firm iBio.
GE Healthcare has snapped up specialist in disposable manufacturing
technologies Wave Biotech, adding a host of new products and
services for the biopharmaceutical manufacturing sector to its
catalogue.