Frozen storage is commonly performed and enables manufacturing process flexibility, long-term product stability and minimizes logistics challenges.  While single-use containers are available for storage and transport of frozen products, some require a significant investment while others don’t offer the necessary support and protection. Using films and bags not designed for frozen storage applications can be detrimental.   Charter Medical recently developed a new family of single-use frozen storage and transport solutions. The Freeze-Pakâ„¢ STS (FP-STS) bio-containers and supporting secondary single-use…

Mammalian cells are a widely used expression platform for the production of recombinant therapeutic proteins or viral particle-based vaccines since they typically perform appropriate protein post-translational modifications and authentic viral particle assembly. Of the available mammalian cells, CHO and HEK 293 are some of the most industrially relevant cell lines because they are cGMP compliant and are able to grow in suspension in a variety of serum-free media. Of note, production of human therapeutics in mammalian cell culture has become…

For autologous T cell therapy to be effective, T cells sampled from a patient need to be grown in sufficient quantity before being injected back. The typical cell number required for an 80 kg patient is 8.109 cells. Achieving such a dose with T flasks, while maintaining cell health, poses logistical challenges that can become intractable when the number of patients rises. This is why the Xuriâ„¢ Cell expansion system W5, a rocking platform which enables automated high cell density…

Lymphocytes, expanded for clinical use, often consist of a small selected starting population, which requires multiple rounds of replication to achieve therapeutic doses. By using perfusion culture with the WAVE Bioreactor 2/10 System, high cell density cultures which are sufficient for therapeutic doses, can be generated. The Cellbagâ„¢ bioreactors, used together with the WAVE system, are functionally closed, single-use bioreactors that are delivered pre-sterilized and suitable for cGMP production. Perfusion is automatically maintained by the WAVE system, which removes metabolites…

This poster presents a study on the performance of two types of single-use in an antibody fed-batch process. The bioreactors were the stirred tank Xcellerexâ„¢ XDR-200 bioreactor and the rocking ReadyToProcess WAVEâ„¢ 25 bioreactor system. The cell line used was a CHO-DG44 derived antibody‑producing cell line and the base medium and feeds were from the ActiCHOâ„¢ media platform. The results from the parallel cultures presented in figures 3,4 and 5 show that cell growth, productivity and metabolism were very similar.…

Subunit vaccines have been shown to have an excellent safety and stability profile compared to the more traditional inactivated or live attenuated vaccines. However, this increased safety is accompanied by the fact that subunit vaccines are often less immunogenic and require adjuvants to induce immunological memory. Comprehensive vaccine design and optimisation approaches can be used to identify the immunogenic parts of the pathogen that contain the B cell and T cell epitopes required for an immune response. Rationally designed vaccines…

The technical and economic benefits of single-use are well known and the bio-manufacturing industry is broadening their adoption in all steps of commercial production. This poster reviews the challenge of poor or inconsistent cell growth associated with the use of single-use bags for media storage and cell culture and how the solutions offered with the new Flexsafe bag family meet these new requirements. The poster introduces a new product development and supply chain management strategy that involves the use of…