Friday, September 9, 2022 Daily Archives

Orca Bio taking inhouse approach to cell therapy with Sacramento plant

“It’s important we maintain control over the process to ensure we are meeting the highest standards of quality,” says cell therapy developer Orca as it announces a 100,000 square-foot plant. Orca Bio’s lead product, the cell therapy Orca-T, is in Phase III clinical trials for several of the most prevalent blood cancers. As such, the firm is looking beyond its clinical manufacturing site in Sacramento, California and is constructing a 100,000 square-foot commercial facility nearby with the capacity to manufacture…

MilliporeSigma continues SU expansion with €130m France investment

The facility in Molsheim, France will see increased capacity for the manufacturing of MilliporeSigma’s Mobius single-use assemblies and create 800 jobs. The €130 million ($131 million) investment, the largest ever in the 50-year history of the site, will significantly increase capacity for Mobius single-use products within the portfolio of Merck KGaA’s life sciences services business – known as MilliporeSigma in North America. “Molsheim is our largest Life Science campus in France. We have the expertise in-house and the space to…

Neukio Bio raises $50m for allogenic CAR-T therapies

Shanghai, China-based Neukio Biotherapeutics has completed a $50 million Series A-1 funding to support development of its cell therapy molecules, especially off-the-shelf allogenic CAR-T therapies. After raising $40 million in an Angel round last year, the company will use these latest funds to accelerate preclinical/clinical validation of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived off-the-shelf CAR-NK cell therapy products, while also expanding its team and operations. This latest funding was led by CD Capital, with participation from Alwin Capital and Surplus Capital…