Thursday, November 26, 2020 Daily Archives

Resilience launches with $800m to ‘break’ biomanufacturing bottlenecks

Though details are scarce, Resilience claims it will provide ‘new, better, faster ways’ to manufacture cell and gene therapies. The new entity begins with bases in Boston and San Diego, as well as over 750,000-square-feet of operating space. Officially known as ‘National Resilience’, the company announced its entrance on the market by suggesting that it would be a ‘first-in-kind’ biomanufacturing and technology operation that has been set up specifically to address capacity issues in the advanced therapeutics area. Resilience plans…

Mustang expands ‘bubble boy’ gene therapy footprint with European CDMO

Mustang Bio has established a European manufacturing base for its lentiviral gene therapy candidate MB-107 through a deal with cell and gene therapy CDMO Minaris. Developed with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, MB-107 is Mustang Bio’s lentiviral gene therapy for the treatment of X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (XSCID), also known as bubble boy disease. The candidate, which received US FDA Orphan Drug Designation in September, is manufactured from a facility in Worcester, Massachusetts but the firm is now looking outside…