October 2019 Supplement

Streamlining the Path to Clinical Manufacturing

Careful consideration of lot size is crucial for multiyear success of a cell therapy business. RoosterBio’s product design and acceleration business works with the company’s customers to help make plans that are appropriate for their stages of product and clinical development. We use the following major considerations in creating a sound multiyear strategy with intermediate milestones: Understand what the future looks like and work backward Use reasonable to conservative assumptions to estimate a range of needs Invest in the right…

Rapid Mammalian Cell Harvest Without Centrifugation for Antibody Purification: Using a Novel System for Cell Culture Media Clarification

Monoclonal antibody (MAb) expression systems typically use signal peptides to ensure secretion of antibodies into cell culture media. Although that reduces the complexity of purification and prevents the need for cell disruption, it does require using expensive and time-consuming techniques to separate cells from antibody-containing cell culture fluids. In this study, we describe our tests of the novel Sartoclear Dynamics Lab V system (Sartorius S Lab Instruments GmbH and Co. KG) for rapid clarification of cell culture media without requiring…

Special Report: Current Analytical Approaches to Biophysical Characterization in a Regulatory Environment

Structural integrity of protein-based therapeutics is one of the major challenges in the biopharmaceutical industry. Multiple factors such as product stability, efficacy, and shelf life could be affected following minor changes in manufacturing process. Multiple biophysical methods employing spectroscopic and calorimetric tools can be used to analyse Higher Order Structure (HOS). Moreover, with an increasing demand for generating as much structural information as possible for regulatory submissions, a requirement for these analyses in a GMP environment is also important. This…