Category: Manufacturing

January 18, 2022

Stanford University spinout N1 Life has formed a joint venture to further its drug delivery ambitions. The startup is teaming up with Accuredit Therapeutics to create a joint venture, Napoltec, focused on novel drug delivery systems and the progression of […]

January 18, 2022

Ori Biotech, which is on the cusp of launching an innovative process for manufacturing cell and gene therapies (CGTs), tallied more than $100 million in its latest funding round. The company will use the money to add key personnel in […]

January 18, 2022

Samsung Biologics announced on Jan. 12, 2022 that it plans to start building a new facility (designated Plant 5) at Songdo in Incheon, South Korea, this year. The facility will offer manufacturing for multi-modal products, including cell and gene therapies […]

December 28, 2021

Anton Middelberg, PhD, deputy vice-chancellor and vice-president of research at the University of Adelaide in Australia, believes industry reluctance to go continuous reflects the traditional focus on batch-mode production and, in some areas, the technical challenges. “The complexity in continuous […]

December 21, 2021

Continuous processing, for decades an essential characteristic of advanced large-scale manufacturing, has been adopted slowly for mammalian cell-based processes, and even more haltingly for microbial fermentations. In a recent paper in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, lead author Christoph Herwig, […]

December 14, 2021

Scientists have discovered a new potential treatment that could reverse antibiotic resistance in different Gram-negative bacteria that cause conditions including urinary tract infections, sepsis, or pneumonia. The collaborative research, headed by a team at the Ineos Oxford Institute (IOI) for […]

November 18, 2021

Bayer inked a deal with Syntegon Technology for access to a novel continuous manufacturing process for oral solid dosage forms. The process uses fluid bed granulation, which yields granules with improved properties, Syntegon said. The company acquired Bosch Packaging Technology […]

November 17, 2021

The COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing push is far from over. Just ask the Biden administration, which is reportedly looking to spend billions to churn out as many shot doses as possible next year. The White House is ready to shell out […]

October 26, 2021

BioNTech will construct a facility to make its mRNA vaccines in Africa in mid-2022 to scale up production of its COVID-19 jab for a continent that has been largely left behind in the global rollout of vaccines. Planning for the […]

October 26, 2021

Catalent will shell out $230 million to expand the viral vector manufacturing operation at its Harmans, Maryland, gene therapy campus. The latest project by the New Jersey-based CDMO will add three more commercial-scale viral vector suites as well as expanded […]

October 21, 2021

Novartis inked an agreement that could see production of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine move from its facility in Switzerland to its fill-finish plant in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Under the initial agreement, Novartis would get bulk mRNA active ingredients from BioNTech, fill […]

October 7, 2021

Moderna is eyeing sites in Africa where it plans to build a $500 million mRNA manufacturing facility that will be able to produce hundreds of millions of vaccine doses a year in anticipation of future vaccine demand in the wake […]