This whitepaper provides insights into why it is critical to manage, optimize and streamline a supply chain to mitigate risks, such as those brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Small-volume biopharmaceutical processes continue to grow as more biopharmaceutical, cell therapy and gene therapy companies develop products. A 2021 Association for Regenerative Medicine (ARM) report states that there are 1,085 cell, gene and tissue-based therapy developers worldwide. These companies are engaged in many small-volume (<10L) processes including early-stage drug development and autologous therapies.

Advent France Biotechnology’s has launched a second biotech seed fund with a first close at €86m. Since 2017, the French state fund has financed 15 startups in France, Spain, Belgium and Ireland with €68m.


Early phase clinical trials require expert support, often across many service areas and specialisms. Recruitment for trials can be complicated, with less flexibility and higher costs as you attempt to acquire top talent on a project-only basis. That’s why CROs are becoming increasingly indispensable. CROs offer fully formed, multi-skilled teams ready to go, who you can bring on board as and when needed.

Post-Brexit, UK ditches the strict EU regulation for genetic engineering: in future, gene-edited crops will be assessed just like any other new variety, the government said.

The past two years could be called the years of messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, with two major biotech companies, BioNTech and Moderna, playing a crucial role in the development of vaccines against COVID-19 and showing the world the way out of the pandemic, along with achieving record sales revenues.

A comparison of immune correlates of AstraZeneca’s Phase II/III  COVID-19 vaccine trial shows what antibodiy titer is required to prevent symptomatic disease.

Graphene is an allotrope of carbon and the basic structural element of other allotropes such as graphite and carbon nanotubes. It’s one of the lightest materials known and the strongest compound discovered. With its exceptional mechanical stiffness, strength, elasticity, high surface area and outstanding electrical and thermal conductivity, Graphene is ideal for use in electronics, sensors, biomedical technologies, protective coatings, energy and composite applications.

Single cell multiomics has the capacity to address key challenges to developing cell and gene therapies, specifically CAR T-cell therapies. Hear how leading cancer immunotherapy researchers are using these approaches for characterizing the leukapheresis and infusion product, studying the evolution of the cell product in vivo, identifying and defining mechanisms of resistance, and discovering next-generation cell therapies.

AstraZeneca has teamed up with RNA vaccine and therapeutic developer VaxEquity, investing US$195m in milestone payments alone.