Tuesday, November 27, 2018 Daily Archives

Partnerships in Immunotherapy: Working Together to Take Cancer Treatment to the Next Level

Biopharmaceuticals are a particularly complex expression of medicine — and immunotherapies perhaps even more so. As treatments, these products themselves often also need “partners†of a kind: e.g., radiation/radiotherapies, traditional MAbs, and chemotherapies. Just as this field of endeavor requires the input and expertise of many different disciplines — from medical researchers to process engineers, clinicians to business leaders, and market experts to policy makers — this discussion of the topic of partnerships in immunotherapy brings together different experts in…

GE plans purification platform production plant post Puridify purchase

GE Healthcare will open a biomanufacturing center in Stevenage, UK to support production of its fiber-based purification platform, which it acquired last year. In November 2017, bioprocessing equipment and consumables vendor GE Healthcare acquired Puridify – a spin-out from University College London, UK – for an undisclosed fee. The deal added early-stage tech platform FibroSelect, consisting of a nanofiber-based material to which ligands are attached to activate the platform for purification of biologics. A year on and the firm has…

Continuous gene therapy production targeted in UK collaboration

Cobra Biologics and the Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT) Catapult have teamed with Pall to explore continuous manufacturing of gene therapies. The project builds on a concurrent collaboration which looks to reduce the cost of adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors. The collaboration received a £1.5 million ($1.9 million) shared grant from Innovate UK, the United Kingdom’s innovation agency, to investigate continuous manufacturing of adeno-associated virus (AAV) for gene therapy applications. “The project is a joint collaboration between Cobra, Pall and the…