Manufacturing

Although many immunotherapies focus on tumor-associated antigens, many of the peptide targets on the surface of cells have not be validated.

Adheren relies on chemical modifications, rather than genetic engineering, to create its cell-based immunotherapies.

The companies will provide assays for functional comparability, for use in quality control, lot release, and stability testing of biosimilars and biobetters.

A team of Bristol-Myers Squibb scientists will work in a new laboratory at the National Institute of Bioprocessing Research and Training facility in Dublin, Ireland.

Novo Nordisk broke ground on a facility in Clayton, NC, to manufacture APIs for GLP-1 and insulin medicines.

Collaboration will provide for unified development and manufacture of antibody drug conjugates.

The BARDA-supported monoclonal antibody was approved both as a treatment after anthrax exposure and as an anthrax prophylactic.

The Human Vaccines Project brings together academic research centers, industrial partners, nonprofit organizations, and governments to address the primary scientific barriers to developing new vaccines and immunotherapies.

The agency announced enhanced warnings for immediate-release opioids to inform prescribers and patients of risks related to use.

During a clinical trial of 48 participants, 100% of those that received the TV003 vaccine were protected from infection.

TxCell’s new facilities are based in Sophia Antipolis, France, on the premises of GenBiotech.

This marks the first time a biologic manufactured in China has been released for use in a clinical trial in Europe.

The pharma company revealed in a fourth quarter call that it will improve its cell-culture capabilities by focusing on the use of naïve, highly proliferative cells to manufacture its CAR-T drug candidate.

Asking the right questions is crucial to establishing a biopharmaceutical facility design.

Experts in the field share some best practices for optimizing process economics in biomanufacturing.

The authors describe the ways in which manufacturers can mitigate the risks related to the integrity of recombinant transgenes expressed in CHO cells.

The necessity to detach cells from a culture substrate during cell harvesting remains one of the most challenging steps in a cell-culture process.

Collaborative efforts are underway between suppliers and drug manufacturers to address raw material variability.

Real-time GPS technology, better IT connections, and more conservative, controlled shipping temperatures are improving the shipment of sensitive pharmaceuticals.

Microbial models offer some exciting production alternatives.

Miniature bioreactors add value by reducing validation efforts.

The authors provide their perspectives on shipping validation.

Researchers discovered more than 300 antibodies that reacted with the Ebola virus’s surface glycoprotein and could be used to neutralize many strains of the virus.

FDA fast-tracked the monoclonal antibody based on early clinical data from a Phase I trial.

Vaccine R&D has grown exponentially in recent years, spurred by ethical and medical needs to combat lethal infectious outbreaks and increased funding from public and private agencies and organizations.

The agency prepares a plan to implement new packaging safety features.

FDA granted Immunomedics breakthrough therapy designation for the company’s investigational antibody drug conjugate for treatment of triple negative breast cancer.

The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) program announced its 2016 Category Award winners for operational excellence, sustainability, process innovation, project execution, equipment innovation, and facility integration.

The authors review the status of expression of antibodies in microbial hosts and present the recent advances in the production of aglycosylated antibodies in bacteria.

Rapid methods to test CAR-T therapies for potential contamination are on the horizon.