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Seamless Transition from R&D to Manufacturing

by Gene W. Lee, Kristi Sarno, Joshua Speidel, Peter Latham, Angela Lim, Jessica Dawson, Kevin McCarthy, Jonathan Souquet, Hervé Broly, Matteo Costioli and Robert Huebner

Fast and cheap: These criteria are becoming ever more urgent drivers for manufacturers of biologics, faced with increased scrutiny on the costs of developing novel drugs, the lengthy timelines for delivering these drugs to patients, and the tightening competition to capitalize on new targets. The challenge for manufacturers is further heightened by the expectations to deliver on quality as well. Although development and production of molecules such as monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) have greatly benefited from the “platformization” of core technologies…

Emerging Technologies and Strategies to Accelerate Process Development and Time to Market

by Gustavo Mahler

Gustavo Mahler, president and chief executive officer, AGC Biologics AGC Biologics is one of the largest global biologics contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMO) specializing in clinical and commercial development of therapeutic proteins. It has developed more than 200 products, both mammalian and microbial, from preclinical to commercial on all scales. The company’s CGMP facilities are located in the United States, Europe, and Japan. AGC Biologics’s technologies and strategies to accelerate time to market include standardized cell-line and cell-bank creation…

Future-Proofing and Understanding Your Molecule with Contemporary Analytics and Formulation Approaches

by Greg Adams

Greg Adams, senior director of global analytical strategy and development, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies (FDB) “Proteins have personalities.” Adams began. Their three-dimensional structures and folding patterns influence how each protein will behave. Analytical methods that evaluate a protein’s quality attributes need to be reproducible and robust. Proteins are evaluated through elucidating their amino acid sequences, using molecular informatics and modeling, characterizing three-dimensional structures, and understanding the degree of posttranslational modifications. The resulting knowledge will help you ensure consistency and safeguard methods.…

Bringing Biologic Products to Market Faster By Partnering with a Single Services Provider from Development Through Commercial Supply

by Andrew Sandford

Andrew Sandford, vice president of business development, Catalent Biologics Catalent feels strongly about “Patients First.” The core of the company’s mission is to “enhance and improve the lives of your patients.” Bringing a new drug to market is expensive, costing about US$2.6 billion per drug. It takes an average of 12 years from drug discovery to final approval, with only 1 in 5,000 products ultimately approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The expense, risk, and long timelines of drug…

Product Development Through Commercial Production: Guiding Your Biologic from Start to Finish

by Eunyoung Yang

Eunyoung Yang, team leader and chief development officer of the business development team, Samsung BioLogics Samsung is maximizing customer satisfaction by providing customized, cost-effective, and comprehensive development and manufacturing services. It is the number-four company in the world worth, US$92.3 billion, with 672 offices in 91 countries and employing 512,000 people. Samsung provides electronics (its most well-known business), engineering and construction for heavy industries, financial services, and healthcare support including biologics manufacturing, a medical center, and electronic medical devices. Samsung…

Cultivating Better Working Relationships with Contract Manufacturing Organizations: A Panel Discussion

by S. Anne Montgomery

On 21 March 2018, a panel discussion during BPI West in San Francisco addressed ways to improve working relationships between sponsors and contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs). Our goal as organizers was to avoid retreading overfamiliar ground: Many outsourcing articles stress the importance of good communication without delving into actual strategies for improvement. So I asked the panelists to focus on the word better and what that actually means in this context. The most productive way to approach such a discussion…

Emerging Markets: Current Insights into the State of Global Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing

by S. Anne Montgomery and Alison D. Center

Opportunities for establishing strong biopharmaceutical capabilities are expanding across the globe. This e-book seeks to encapsulate the current state of emerging markets/countries, tracing key elements above and offering examples to show where (in the world) the biopharmaceutical industry is expanding and securing its footholds. Generally, to succeed in these markets, foreign companies must exercise efficient resource management and control, show creativity and receptiveness to cultural differences, develop new strategies, and manage expectations. Working with local partners can provide access to…

Introduction: Tackling the Technical and Regulatory Challenges of Biosimilar Development

by Cheryl Scott

In a just a few years, the biopharmaceutical industry has gone from questioning the feasibility of “follow-on biologics” (around the time of BPI’s first issues) to fearing them (when we published our first supplement on the topic in 2013) to the acceptance and strategizing of today. Perhaps because of its more socialized medicine, Europe led the way in biosimilar regulation and approved its first such product nearly 10 years before the first US biosimilar launch in 2015. In between came…

Strategies for Successful Sample Transfer

by Maribel Rios, S. Anne Montgomery and Nadine Ritter

Nadine Ritter is president and senior analytical advisor of Global Biotech Experts, LLC and a long-time member of BioProcess International’s editorial advisory board. At a recent CASSS North American CMC Strategy Forum called “Methods on the Move: Addressing Method Transfer Challenges,” she discussed the biopharmaceutical industry’s logistical challenges of analytical test samples for drug substances and products. At the conference, BPI’s editor in chief Anne Montgomery met with her to discuss some key points of this topic. Logistics Challenges Montgomery:…

Accelerated Development Through Strategic Analytical Partnerships

by Michael Merges and Brian Fahie

The analytical field for biologics has evolved greatly over the past 30 years, and the underlying growth has shifted from biopharmaceutical companies to contract research organizations (CROs). The global biopharmaceutical market is growing annually at >15%, making it the largest and consistently fastest growing segment of the healthcare industry with annual sales in excess of US$200 billion. Contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) are expanding capacity by building new cost-efficient facilities, reflecting market demand. Many product sponsors are outsourcing, some even increasing…