While many biopharmaceutical companies are exploring paths toward continuous processing, many tools already exist for implementing process intensification. As the authors of this special report illustrate, hybrid continuous processes that benefit from single-use technologies along with continuing improvements in perfusion cell culture already now are enabling improvements in cost reduction and accelerating time to market. And novel high-throughput and automated small-scale systems are helping development scientists gather more information in less time than before, reduce their development footprints, and make…
Tuesday, June 26, 2018 Daily Archives
GE Healthcare Spin-Off: “A Major M&A Chip Off the Tableâ€
GE will separate its Healthcare division over the next two to three years in efforts to reduce debt. The news may disappoint acquisition-hungry life science rivals Thermo Fisher and Danahar, say analysts. John Flannery, chairman and CEO of General Electric (GE) announced today plans to separate GE Healthcare, along with industrial services firm BHGE, in efforts to “unlock both a pure-play healthcare company and a tier-one oil and gas servicing and equipment player.†The industrial conglomerate GE has struggled over…