Alexion sells its troubled plant to Rubius; Samsung BioLogics receives its first US license to make a Mab drug product; WuXi Biologics completes a GMP run at its Shanghai facility. Welcome to Insider’s facility round-up. Earlier this month, BioProcess Insider reported newly public Rubius Therapeutics had pledged to invest US$155 million (€133 million) to purchase, renovate and customize a facility in Smithfield, Rhode Island. At the time, the firm refused to divulge who they bought the facility from, but in…
Friday, July 27, 2018 Daily Archives
Sangamo Bets on CAR-Treg Through $84m TxCell Acquisition
CAR-Treg is the next biology of interest for gene-modified cellular therapies says TxCell, which is set to be acquired by Sangamo Therapeutics. Sangamo Therapeutics has agreed to buy French biotech TxCell for approximately €72 million (US$84 million), bolstering its pipeline with cellular immunotherapies based on regulatory T lymphocytes, or Tregs. The acquisition will help bring candidates, including TX200 for transplant rejection, through the clinic and towards commercialization, TxCell’s CEO Stephane Boissel told Bioprocess Insider. “We did not want to start…