Cell and Gene Therapy Processing?Personalised tumour treatments are expensive. This particularly applies to individual cancer therapies based on gene-modified T cells. Currently, they are produced manually or, at best, in a partially-automated process. In a collaboration project ProCell for Patient, two hospitals are currently working with Optima Pharma to develop an automated unit for the decentralised production of a CAR-T cell product in treatment centres.
Idorsia: Failure in Phase III
Latest NewsBad news for Swiss drug discovery company Idorsia: Its Fabry disease hopeful lucerastat failed to reduce neuropathic pain in patients.
New CSO for Cellbox Solutions
AppointmentsSince October, Dr. Gisèle Deblandre has strengthened the team of Cellbox Solutions GmbH in Norderstedt near Hamburg as Chief Scientific Officer.
Delivering on Europe´s Green Deal – EFIB 2021 in Vienna
Latest NewsLeading industry leaders, SMEs representatives and academia are joining in Vienna, Austria, at the 14th European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology and the Bioeconomy (EFIB), from 6th to 7th of October, organised by EuropaBio and conference partners.
COVID-19 immunisation set to get FDA EUA
Latest NewsPharma giant AstraZeneca has submitted data to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of its antibody duo AZD7442.
Supporting ulta-rare diseases
OpinionMedicines for rare and paediatric diseases have been successfully enabled through the EU’s incentives framework. The number of medicines in development has risen significantly since the introduction of the legislation (3,678 applications for orphan designation by end 2020).
Automation is key to saving lives
BackgroundCell and Gene Therapy Processing?Personalised tumour treatments are expensive. This particularly applies to individual cancer therapies based on gene-modified T cells. Currently, they are produced manually or, at best, in a partially-automated process. In a collaboration project ProCell for Patient, two hospitals are currently working with Optima Pharma to develop an automated unit for the decentralised production of a CAR-T cell product in treatment centres.
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Sponsored PublicationsRichter-Helm is a leading and expanding Germany-based contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO). Richter-Helm provides excellent services in the continuously growing market of pharmaceutical biotechnology. Offering a broad range of microbial manufacturing, development and analytical services, Richter-Helm will bring customer projects to the next level.
Thermo Fisher opens Swiss biologics manufacturing plant
Latest NewsLengnau will become the newest site in Thermo Fisher Scientific’s biologics manufacturing network. The site is to be completed in 2022 and its staff of 200 will join the company.
Accelerate development of adoptive cell therapies
Sponsored PublicationsThe success of any adoptive cell therapy lies in how effectively and selectively engineered immune cells interact and kill cancer cells. Functional phenomics enables insights that can dramatically accelerate the development of next-gen cell therapies. evorion biotechnologies brings functional phenomics to pharma and biotech partners via exclusive access to a unique, proprietary pipeline for in-depth multi-modal analysis of thousands of cell-cell interactions at single-cell resolution.
BioNTech investigates cancer vaccine BNT122 in Phase II trial
Latest NewsBionTech SE, which has been very successful in the field of corona vaccines, is starting phase II tests with its colorectal cancer candidate BNT122.