A critical factor for both the lowering in costs of development as well as costs of production for biologic therapies is to develop a cell line that grows faster and produces larger amounts of vaccines and drugs using low cost synthetically defined media. Dyadic’s industrially proven C1 gene expression platform creates a stable cell line in a shortened timeline, reducing the time from gene fragment to stable cell line by 50% when compared to CHO cells. C1 stable cell lines…
Janssen has opened a single-use manufacturing facility in Leiden, the Netherlands to support the commercialization of its preventative HIV vaccine candidate. Commissioned in 2014, the multipurpose vaccine production facility is being inaugurated today (Thursday October 25) in Leiden, the Netherlands and will initially be used to manufacture the firm’s investigational mosaic HIV-1 preventive vaccine. The facility represents an investment of €72 million ($82 million). The facility came about following the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Dirk Redlich, VP of…
Construction is underway at the ‘largest outsourced single-use site in North America’ says Thermo Fisher, a year after acquiring CDMO Patheon. In April 2018, Thermo Fisher Scientific announced a $50 million (€44 million) expansion at a plant in St Louis, Missouri to add 16,000 L of single-use capacity. The facility is run by contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) Patheon, acquired by Thermo Fisher in August 2017 for around $7.2 billion. And during a Q3 financial call, Thermo Fisher CEO…