Monday, October 11, 2021 Daily Archives

Simulated Bed fellows: Tosoh buys purification firm Semba

Tosoh Bioscience says it will complement its resins business through the addition of continuous chromatography firm Semba Biosciences. The deal, which closed earlier this month, saw Pennsylvania-based Tosoh add all Semba’s staff and assets for an undisclosed fee. The acquisition will boost the firm’s downstream bioproduction portfolio, made up of chromatography resins, with the addition of Semba’s simulated moving bed (SMB) chromatography systems (see text box below). “Coupled with Semba’s revolutionary multi-column chromatography technology we have found a perfect complement…

How biopharma dealt with COVID: ‘We science-ed the crap out of it!’

COVID-19 showed biopharma at its best and worst says a former regulator, who argues that the scrutiny which came with the pandemic highlighted some key industry challenges. The pandemic put biopharma in the spotlight according to Jeff Baker, former deputy director of the Office of Biotechnology Products in CDER, who told delegates at the BPI East hybrid conference last month the crisis highlighted industry’s strengths and weaknesses. “There will be a lot of books written about the COVID-19 crisis and…