Friday, September 27, 2019 Daily Archives

eBook: Bioreactor Scale-Up: From Pilot to Commercial Scale in the Modern Era

Upstream bioproduction always has begun with laboratory systems producing limited amounts of product for test purposes, then those bioprocesses are scaled up to make more product more efficiently for larger clinical trials — and ultimately commercial distribution. With the advent of single-use technology and continuous processing, how have scale-up approaches changed in recent years, specifically at the pilot-to-production level? In this online exclusive, BPI editors review the science and technology affecting decisions made at this stage of process development, with…

Peptide A? JSR teams on synthetic affinity chromatography ligands

JSR Corporation has teamed with PeptiDream to develop a synthetic peptide-based affinity chromatography media that could be an alternative to costly Protein A resin. The partnership will combine PeptiDream’s drug discovery platform, PDPS (Peptide Discovery Platform System), with JSR’s knowledge of affinity separation technology to develop affinity chromatography media from unique peptides that bind to various target proteins in a specific manner. A peptide-based resin can be a platform for affinity purification for various types of therapeutic proteins, it could…

GSK opens $120m single-use drug substance plant in PA

Equipped with disposable bioreactors up to 2,000 L, the plant in Upper Merion is ready to begin practice runs for GSK’s inducible T cell co-stimulatory (ICOS) receptor-agonist candidate. The site in Upper Merion, Pennsylvania has been a major source of manufacturing for GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for over 20 years. With the opening of the $120 million (€110 million) ‘next-generation’ facility, the firm says it has created a “technologically-advanced manufacturing hub that offers the flexibility and speed necessary when making today’s complex…