Friday, May 14, 2021 Daily Archives

CDMOs need to invest in innovation to make complex meds, says Resilience CEO

Biopharma CDMOs need to rethink production according to Resilience CEO Rahul Singhvi, who says industry must learn to make a new generation of complex products. Advances in biological science in recent years are helping the biopharmaceutical industry to start unlocking the potential of cell and gene therapies. For example, in the past few months the US FDA has approved two cell based cancer meds – Abecma (idecabtagene vicleucel) and Breyanzi (lisocabtagene maraleucel) – further underlining the cell therapy sector’s potential.…

Aenova invests $19m to expand fill-finish capacity in Italy

The expansion addresses sustained demand particularly for fill-finish services to produce COVID-19 vaccines, says CDMO Aenova Group. German contract development manufacturing organization (CDMO) Aenova has invested more than $19 million to build a sterile production site at its 40,000 square-foot facility in Latina, Italy. The expansion will focus predominately on a fill-finish area for prefilled syringes (PFS) with high-speed filling lines and vials. The first high-speed line to be fitted has a capacity of more than 80 million vials and…