Moving Gene Therapies to Market: The Role of Manufacturing Technologies

Clive Glover, director of strategy for gene and cell therapy at Pall Biotech, presented at the BPI Theater at BIO on Tuesday, 4 June 2019, about how questions of manufacturing scale will dictate new developments and investments in gene therapy technologies. For this reason, Glover added, Pall strives to find ways of reintegrating extant technologies for optimal manufacturing scale. Once a drug sponsor and Pall reach consensus about process parameters, Pall initiates an integrated solutions design that helps it and its client determine manufacturing scale, material balance, and plant and equipment need. These assessments, Glover concludes, ensure that adequate space will be available for moving equipment and process steps seamlessly and ergonomically.