Friday, January 10, 2020 Daily Archives

Best Practices for Aseptic Sampling from Stainless Process Equipment

This webcast features: Bobbi Allen, Technical Expert, Aseptic Sampling, Sartorius Stedim Biotech Aseptic sampling from stainless process equipment is a regulatory requirement and can be accomplished in many ways. How samples are removed from the process stream and the containers you collect them into can have an impact not only on the integrity of the process but the accuracy and repeatability of the tests you are performing. Emerging technologies can streamline sample taking, minimize risk to process, and improve the…

Novartis opens its largest gene therapy plant to support Zolgensma

The doors have opened at a facility in Longmont, Colorado nine months after Novartis acquired it to support its gene therapy business unit AveXis. In April 2019, Novartis bought the Longmont facility from fellow Big Biopharma player AstraZeneca in efforts to grow out its gene therapy production network. Nine months on and the Swiss Biopharma has confirmed the site is open and prepped to support its AveXis unit in the production of therapies including Zolgensma (onasemnogene abeparvovec-xioi1), which was approved…