Tuesday, July 25, 2023 Daily Archives

Soaring CGT demand altering bioprocess pipelines

Bioprocess companies like Sartorius are seeing the demand for CGT equipment and services become an increasingly large proportion of their biologics revenue. René Fáber, who recently tookover as CEO of bioprocess unit Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), said cell culture media and critical materials used to make “new therapeutic modalities like cell and gene therapies (CGTs)” are becoming a “highly relevant portfolio for us” His comment came off the back of the closure of Sartorius’s $2.6 billion acquisition of Polyplus this week.…

Excellos opens cell therapy plant in San Diego

CDMO Excellos has opened it’s a cell therapy production facility in San Diego, US, to support pre-clinical and commercial manufacturing of CGTs. Cell therapy contract development manufacturing organization (CDMO) Excellos launched in January 2022 with the San Diego Blood Bank (SDBB) at its foundation and $15 million of funding in hand. The firm already has an operational cGMP manufacturing facility for Advanced Therapies and said at the time of launch the funding would support construction of at least four additional clean rooms. Now,…