This webcast features: Laurens Sierkstra, Business Segment Leader, Bioproduction Group, Thermo Fisher Scientific. Ongoing progress in biotherapeutics development has initiated an increasing range of complex molecules entering the drug development pipeline such as novel vaccines and therapeutic proteins. This often rises challenges in the manufacturing process of these newer modalities, with downstream operations as a focus point as this part of the production process frequently represents a bottleneck. Addressing downstream challenges requires novel purification strategies for commercial manufacturing which may…
Wednesday, February 16, 2022 Daily Archives
Robert Califf named as FDA commissioner
On Tuesday the Senate voted to confirm Robert Califf as the next commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The US FDA has not had a permanent leader since January 2021 and in November last year President Joe Biden nominated former FDA commissioner Robert Califf to lead the organization for a second time. Now, in a tight vote resulting in 50 in favor of Califf and 46 against, he returns to the position he served in from 2016…
Thermo Fisher forks out $40m to expand single-use plant
The $40 million expansion will support production of single-use technology for vaccines and therapeutics at Thermo Fisher’s Pennsylvania facility. According to Thermo Fisher Scientific, the expansion of its single-use technology (SUT) manufacturing facility in Millersburg, Pennsylvania is part of a long-term $650 million investment the firm announced last March. Additionally, the investment will establish secure, scalable, reliable, and flexible bioprocessing production capacity for materials used in current and future biologics and vaccines, including COVID-19 treatments. “The integration of single use…