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Science Guiding Technology: Cell Line Development and Engineering 2018

Cell line development engineers in the biopharmaceutical industry juggle several, sometimes contradictory priorities. They must present their bioprocessing colleagues with a master cell line that can express a reproducibly high-quality protein product at titers and growth concentrations that will be high enough for manufacturing efficiency — and without those parameters degrading over time. Performing the first step in every bioprocess, these scientists must consider their own budgetary concerns and efficiencies while facing regulatory scrutiny under the 21st-century risk-management paradigm. In…

Myths, Risks, and Best Practices: Production Cell Line Development and Control of Product Consistency During Cell Cultivation

by Barry Cherney, Dieter Schmalzing, Steffen Gross, Juhong Liu and Christopher Frye

Health authorities are requesting substantial details from sponsors regarding practices used to generate production cell lines for recombinant DNA–(rDNA) derived biopharmaceuticals. Authorities also are asking for information about the clonality of master cell banks (MCBs) and control strategies to minimize genetic heterogeneity. Such requests are prompted by recent reports indicating “nonclonality” for certain production cell lines. To address these and related issues, the CASSS CMC Strategy Forum on “Production Cell Line Development and Control of Product Consistency During Cell Cultivation:…

Rapid Generation of High-Producing Clonal Cell Lines: Using FRET-Based Microfluidic Screening for Analysis, Sorting, Imaging, and Dispensing

by Thomas Kelly, Angela M. Tuckowski and Kevin D. Smith

Sales of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) are predicted to be over US$125 billion by 2020 (1). Such revenue potential puts significant pressure on the biopharmaceutical industry to reduce timelines, especially to first-in-human trials. Cell-line development represents a large and critical portion of the early development timeline. Whether a developer is using random or targeted integration for introducing genes into a host-cell genome, the regulatory requirement for addressing monoclonality introduces a time and resource-intensive step in this process. Many different techniques are…

Dye Ingress Methods for Container–Closure Integrity Testing: An Industry Position Paper

by Scott Ewan, Stefanie Adler, Nicolas Coopmans, Marta Corcoran, Sean Fadden, Chris Feeney, Jason Fernandez, Henri Hebting, Olivia Henderson, Steve Klohr, Michael Koby, Josh Lance, Brian Lee, Lei Li, Doug McNeill, Roman Mathaes, Dale Moore, Jeff One, Kashyap Panya, Suzanne Pellinen, Amanda Scruggs, Kamran Simani, Mauro di Stefano, Jared Trefethan, Harold van Deinse, Brian Vanness, Amy Wang and Klaus Wuchner

The primary goal of container–closure integrity (CCI) is to maintain the sterility and product quality of parenteral biopharmaceuticals throughout their shelf life and use. Guidelines detailing the initial CCI qualification and validation requirements have been defined and can be found in the US Pharmacopeia chapter 1207 (USP<1207>) (1). The guidelines described in USP<1207> can be applied to any common CCI testing (CCIT) method to achieve a method suited for its intended use within a drug product lifecycle. CCI is not…

In-Line Turbidity Sensors for Monitoring Process Streams in Continuous Countercurrent Tangential Chromatography (CCTC)

by Dmitriy Fedorenko, Jasmine Tan, Oleg Shinkazh and Dennis Annarelli

A strong connection between turbidity and total suspended solids (TSS) has been linked in the past to measuring well defined particles in processes. Optical density probes have seen wide adoption in the biotechnology industry for monitoring cell growth within a bioreactor, whereas in-line turbidity sensors have been used to monitor filter performance. Turbidity measurements offer a rapid quantification of suspended solids but have not been used in the biotechnology industry for chromatographic resins. In this study, turbidity measured with equipment developed by PendoTECH was used with novel continuous chromatography technology developed by Chromatan…

Setting Up a Rapid Mycoplasma Assay to Support Recombinant Protein Production

by Kent Persson

Octapharma AB (OAB) in Stockholm, Sweden, is the site for Nuwiq human recombinant factor VIII (FVIII), production. The drug is produced in a human cell line cultured in a perfusion bioreactor using a closed system (to minimize contamination) and proprietary serum-free medium without animal-derived components. In accordance with regulatory guidelines, cell banks and cell cultures used for production of biological products must be free of mycoplasma. Traditional mycoplasma testing is a growth-based method that represents a significant bottleneck in quality…

Accelerating Biopharmaceutical Development with High-Throughput Glycan Screening and Multiple Attribute Methodology

by BPI Contributor

Part 1 Development of biopharmaceuticals comprises many integrated steps, beginning with research and discovery and optimally ending with a commercial therapeutic molecule. Early screening of large numbers of clones and cell culture expression conditions is essential to identifying proteins that carry to greatest likelihood of clinical and commercial success. Part one of this report reviews how high-throughput glycan screening can significantly improve current analytical strategies relating to cell line development. Part 2 Minor impurities and changes in attributes such as…

eBook: Quality By Design for Monoclonal Antibodies — Establishing the Foundations for Process Development, Design Space, and Process Control Strategies

by Brendan Cooney, Susan Dana Jones and Howard L. Levine

The quality by design (QbD) modernized approach to pharmaceutical development is intended to provide regulatory flexibility, increased development and manufacturing efficiency, and greater room to innovate as well as improve manufacturing processes within defined ranges without obtaining regulatory approval first. QbD is a systematic developmental approach that starts with a clear goal in mind and emphasizes understanding of how variability in both process and materials affects a final product (1). Historically, product quality has been assured either with end-product testing…

Methods on the Move: Addressing Method Transfer Challenges for the Biopharmaceutical Industry

by Mary Beth Pelletier, Jeffrey Staecker and Kathy Lee

Analytical method transfers are essential components of the current global biotechnology environment. Analytical method transfer can be defined as “a documented process that qualifies a laboratory (the receiving laboratory) to use a validated analytical test procedure that originated in another laboratory (sending laboratory), thus ensuring that the receiving laboratory has the procedural knowledge and ability to perform the transferred analytical procedure as intended” (1). The goal is to ensure that a method continues to perform in the validated state regardless…

Host-Cell Protein Risk Management and Control During Bioprocess Development: A Consolidated Biotech Industry Review, Part 1

by Fengqiang Wang, Daisy Richardson, Hans-Martin Mueller, Georgeen Gaza-Bulseco, Xinrong Liu, Fang Liu, Yiwei Zhao, Satish Sharma, Markus Haindl and Carl Co

Host-cell proteins (HCPs) constitute a significant class of process-related impurities during biologics manufacturing. Due to their potential impact on product quality and efficacy as well as patient safety, the total amount of residual HCP in a biological drug substance generally is considered a critical quality attribute (CQA) that usually needs to be tested for during batch release (1, 2). It is both an “industrywide” common understanding and a regulatory requirement to remove HCPs from biologics to acceptably low levels that…