Friday, April 21, 2023 Daily Archives

The future of CGT production? Automation, AI, and academic capacity

Advanced therapy manufacturing is still in its infancy says JIB’s Parviz Shamlou, who looks to digital processes and advanced AI to improve production going forward. Legacy biopharmaceuticals such as proteins and monoclonal antibodies are well-proven and relatively easy to scale-up. A single batch from a 20,000 L bioreactor, for example, will provide sufficient drug product to treat thousands of patients. However, cell and gene therapies represent a very different model, says Parviz Shamlou, executive director at the Jefferson Institute for…

Sartorius Q1: CGT confidence among declining COVID sales

With ‘demand normalization’ hitting the topline, Sartorius lays out ambitions in the cell and gene therapy materials sector further propelled through the planned acquisition of Polyplus. Life sciences service firm Sartorius presented sales of €695 million ($761 million) in its Bioprocess Solutions business for the first quarter 2023, a 14.7% drop on the same period last year. Orders, meanwhile, fell 35% to €575.7 million compared to Q1 2022. Management explained the decline as a continuation of demand normalization following the…