Monday, December 5, 2016 Daily Archives

MilliporeSigma to Provide Provantage® End-to-End Services to Acticor Biotech SAS

MilliporeSigma today announced that it will provide its Provantage® End-to-End services to Acticor Biotech SAS for accelerated development and manufacturing of Acticor’s antibody fragment used for the primary treatment of ischemic stroke. MilliporeSigma’s Provantage® End-to-End solution is a comprehensive suite of products and services enabling biopharmaceutical companies to accelerate progress of molecules into the clinic and toward commercialization. “Our Provantage® End-to-End solution will provide Acticor with a fast and flexible approach to development and clinical-scale manufacturing,” said Udit Batra, Member of…

The Total Cost of Buffer Preparation and Handling

This webcast features: Eric Langer, Managing Partner, BioPlan Associates, Inc. Most bioprocessing facilities consider in-house preparation of buffers and bulk liquids to be a core bioprocessing task. However, some companies are now outsourcing liquid manufacturing, by purchasing ready-to-use materials from vendors or hiring CMOs to prepare these. Buffers and bioprocessing liquids are one area of upstream production operations that is seeing an increase in outsourced operations. Bulk liquids can be a bottleneck in downstream processing, with buffer volumes often required…