Monday, July 16, 2018 Daily Archives

Validation of the MycoSeq Mycoplasma Detection Kit for the Release of Veterinary Products

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This webcast features: Sébastien Lievyns, Scientist, and Dr. Anne Thomas, Senior Principal Scientist, Analytical Sciences, Zoetis This webcast aims to show how Zoetis has validated the MycoSeq kit for the release of animal products. The Analytical Sciences group at Zoetis confirmed the limit of detection at 10 CFU/mL and good repeatability and intermediate precision of the qualitative mycoplasma qrt-PCR method in presence of these products. For direct PCR performed on vaccine, a background amplification is sometimes observed inducing a signal…

July 16, 2018

French CDMO to Make Kymriah as Part of Novartis CAR-T Strategy

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Novartis has selected France-based CELLforCURE as a CAR-T therapy manufacturing partner fresh from receiving European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommendation for Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel). Kymriah became the first chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy to receive approval in the US last August. Last month, marketing authorization holder Novartis came one step closer to bringing the therapy to Europe after receiving positive opinion from the EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP). In the wake of this recommendation, the Swiss…

July 16, 2018