After an initial collaboration in 2015, Selexis has signed commercial license agreements with Agenus to develop research cell banks for additional antibody programs. In 2015, clinical-stage immuno-oncology firm Agenus selected cell line development firm Selexis to collaborate on its lead anti-CTLA4 (AGEN1884) and anti-PD1 (AGEN2034) programs. Four years on and the firms have extended the deal to include the use of Selexis’ SUREtechnology platform with additional novel single agent and combination therapies. “Under the expanded collaboration, Selexis will continue to…

Stilmas Americas has been formed from the acquisition of Canada’s MarCor, bringing its purified water and water for injection (WFI) solutions to North America. The deal sees Stilmas add the high purity division of MarCor to its business. Finanacial details have not been divulged. Stilmas is a subsidiary of the Masco Group, a conglomerate which offers engineering, pure media systems – including WFI stills, purified water systems, pure steam generators – and super skid preparation systems to the biopharma industry,…

Swedish separations firm Biotage will add lab scale purification technology through its acquisition of PhyNexus. Financial details of the deal have not been divulged, but the California-based private firm PhyNexus has agreed to be acquired by Biotage this week. PhyNexus will bring an enabling automation platform based on Dual Flow Chromatography to Biotage’s bioprocess offering and increase the firm’s place in the downstream space. The technology enables miniaturized and parallel automated work-flows to address different laboratory purification processes. The Dual…

GE Healthcare will open a biomanufacturing center in Stevenage, UK to support production of its fiber-based purification platform, which it acquired last year. In November 2017, bioprocessing equipment and consumables vendor GE Healthcare acquired Puridify – a spin-out from University College London, UK – for an undisclosed fee. The deal added early-stage tech platform FibroSelect, consisting of a nanofiber-based material to which ligands are attached to activate the platform for purification of biologics. A year on and the firm has…

Lonza says cell culture media is no longer simply a consumable but a critical part of the biomanufacturing process as it modifies its supply deal with Sartorius. In December 2012, contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) Lonza teamed up with bioprocessing equipment and consumables supplier Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) for the supply and distribution of media and buffers used in the manufacture of protein-based therapeutics and vaccines. A shift in the arrangement now sees supply continue but under non-exclusive terms,…