Newsletter | January 17, 2025

01.17.25 -- Cell Therapy Manufacturing Trends And Advancements Continuing In 2025

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Webinar: Quality Roundtable: Raw Material Planning for Tech Transfer and Scaling Biologics

Join fellow biopharmaceutical professionals as they discuss strategies for transitioning biopharmaceuticals from research to clinical and commercial manufacturing. Topics include overcoming tech transfer challenges, vendor certificates of analysis, raw material selection, process performance qualifications, regulatory requirements, and inventory management. The panel will address questions on these key areas to help navigate quality and planning decisions in biologic progression. Click here to learn more.

FOCUS ON PROCESS ENGEINEERING

Cell Therapy Manufacturing Trends And Advancements Continuing In 2025

In this segment of the executive roundtable discussion, our panelists reflect on recent advances in cell therapy manufacturing and discuss active areas of innovation.

CQAs: Their Importance & Limitations In Product & Process Development

What quality attributes may be similar across products and which will be different? Explore the important differentiation of what is a Critical Quality Attribute (CQA) vs a quality attribute.

Predictive Modeling Of Viscosity Behavior Using Artificial Neural Networks

Discover a modeling approach employing artificial neural networks using experimental factors combined with simulation-derived parameters plus viscosity data from 27 highly concentrated mAbs.

Best Practices To Adapt And Improve Quality Control Programs For CGTs

Cell and gene therapies require adaptive and advanced assays for characterization and safety assessments, and assays historically used for biologics must diversify to accommodate them.

Secure And Industrialize Your CGT Process Towards cGMP Manufacturing

Learn the principles of commercialization readiness and guidance to address them in process development as well as the best time to implement automation and minimize commercialization risks.

The Path To Digital CPV

Get to know and embrace a digital CPV approach to proactively detect and address process deviations, ensuring continuous improvement and enhanced quality throughout the product lifecycle.

The Importance Of Operator Equipment Training

Uncover the reasons why a strong commitment to operator training is essential to prevent production issues, ensure product quality, and safeguard patient safety.

Optimizing rAAV Productivity: The Role Of Viable Cell Density

A Design of Experiment (DoE) model was developed to address the multifactorial nature of large-scale transfection, where variables like viable cell density (VCD) and DNA amount jointly influence efficiency.

Bringing CRISPR Into The CAR-T Process

CAR-T cell therapy has been limited by high costs and lengthy manufacturing. Novel methods are bringing exciting advancements in CRISPR-based gene editing that hold promise for overcoming hurdles.

5 Key Elements Of Quality By Design In Pharma

Learn about the advantages of embedding quality throughout design and manufacturing, explore five practical elements of QbD in pharmaceuticals, and discover how a QMS can support QbD.

Getting CMC Right For Emerging Technologies

Establishing a chemistry, manufacturing, and controls strategy that proves a clinical program is tightly controlled and can address risk is critical to avoiding the pitfalls that stall many promising therapeutics.

Strategies For CMC Development, Optimization In Multi-Specific Immuno-Cytokines And Fusion Enzymes Production

See how implementing a strategic approach to optimize the platform can establish a solid foundation for the efficient, reliable, and successful manufacturing of biopharmaceutical products.

High-Titer rAAV Production In Bioreactors Using Producer Cell Lines

Here, we detail the upstream process development and optimization for an AAV8-GFP proof-of-concept (PoC) producer single cell clone (SCC) in both batch and perfusion modes.

Reaching BLA Success: Fast-Track Approach To Process Characterization

Discover how knowledge of microbial processes and process characterization understanding can be used to design targeted BLA programs while managing risks.

PROCESS ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS

Antibody Production: Scale-Up Menu - Cytiva

Our Biotech Success - Surrozen - Lonza

NEW PODCAST EPISODE

RNA Sandbox with Johns Hopkins RNA Innovation Center's Jeff Coller, Ph.D. and Michelle Kim, Ph.D.

Don’t miss this week’s Business of Biotech podcast! We’re joined by Drs. Jeff Coller and Michelle Kim, along with Advancing RNA’s Anna Rose Welch, to discuss the Johns Hopkins University RNA Innovation Center. Learn how this groundbreaking venture supports RNA developers and aspiring business builders with unique resources and opportunities. Tune in to discover the Center’s origins, offerings, and how it’s shaping the future of RNA innovation.

FOCUS ON SUPPLY CHAIN

6 Questions To Ask When Vetting Serum Suppliers

There are some pointed questions that manufacturers need to ask their suppliers before stocking or restocking serums in their lab. Here are six they can start with.

Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management Best Practices

Explore strategies for effective supply chain management and overcoming modern supply chain challenges in the pharmaceutical industry.

SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS

GORE STA-PURE Flexible Freeze Container - W.L. Gore & Associates

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