Monday, October 22, 2018 Daily Archives

BioProcess International Conference and Exhibition 2018 Postevent Report: Key Insights, Highlights, and Take-Away Messages

From the global shift in demographics to increased efficiencies in chromatography media, change is constant within the bioprocessing industry and a major reason delegates flock to the annual BPI Conference and Exhibition. As a place to get an overview of the hot topics affecting this industry, the meeting brings together key aspects of bioprocessing — therapeutic modalities, cells, expression systems, upstream production, downstream processing, development, and manufacturing — with digital integration and the increasing importance of analytics. Add in macrobusiness…

Novartis growing CAR-T network amid slow Kymriah sales

Novartis says it remains confident Kymriah will pull in $200 million in 2019 through the remediation and ramp-up of its CAR-T manufacturing network. For the third quarter 2018, Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel) netted Novartis $20 million (€17.4 million), making a total of $48 million for the first nine months of the year. The product became the first chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell to be approved in August 2017. Elizabeth Barrett, chief executive officer of oncology at Novartis, said the sales figures were…