Entries by Thomas Gabrielczyk

Swiss Biotech Report: Sunrise, not sunset, is the feeling of the hour

In 2022, the Swiss biotech industry "continued to demonstrate its resilience, adapting well to geopolitical upheavals and remaining a key driver of innovation for global healthcare". Swiss biotech companies generated revenues of CHF 6.8bn. Capital inflows amounted to more than CHF 1.3bn, of which CHF 780m went to listed companies and CHF 550m to private companies. These are some of the findings of the annual industry report published by the Swiss Biotech Association in collaboration with EY and presented at Swiss Biotech Day in Basel.

Transition to industrial-scale AAV manufacturing

The switch from lab-scale to industrial-scale AAV production requires deep ­hands-on expertise in various technological solutions, their limitations, and their ­suitability for GMP large-scale manufacturing. Direct application of lab-scale process leads to expensive ­AAV-based products and unnecessarily laborious industrial processes. The complexity and growing demands for controllable critical quality attributes (CQAs), create a challenging blend.