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Video: Ami Polymer are specialists of tubings, hose and SUS assemblies
Ami Polymer are experts in manufacture of silicone tubing, hose and single use assembly with PPE components, which is demanded in pharma/biopharma industry.
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EMA human medicines committee (CHMP) meeting highlights, March 2022
The March meeting saw the EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommend five medications for approval including a multiple myeloma gene therapy.
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FDA releases draft guidance for cell and gene therapy industry
The US FDA has published two draft guidance documents, one on gene therapy products and the other CAR T-cell therapies, for developers and manufacturers.
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PRIME scheme benefits drug development, finds EMA report
The report outlines the positive impact the EMA’s PRIority Medicines (PRIME) scheme has had on drug development for unmet medical need over the last five years.
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Lilly to create $700mn Institute for Genetic Medicine
Investing $700mn to establish a new site, Eli Lilly plans to fuel the development of genetic medicines through the company’s new Institute for Genetic Medicine.
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β-thalassemia patients achieve transfusion independence with gene therapy
Over 90 percent of β-thalassemia patients treated with Betibeglogene autotemcel (beti-cel) achieved transfusion independence lasting over a year.
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Challenges in downstream purification of advanced therapies
John Liddell, Chief Technologist at the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), writes about the challenges associated with gene therapy products, which constitute a major portion of the overall cell and gene therapy market.
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EPR Podcast Episode 9 – Future of ATMPs – Jérôme Larghero and Julien Textoris, bioMérieux
Is the future of cell and gene therapy autologous or allogeneic? Which solid tumour may receive the first cell therapy treatment? How will the use of ATMPs in cancer care change our healthcare structures in years to come? Discover all this and more in this podcast with bioMérieux.
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Product hub: Rapid contamination testing for cell culture and cell-based samples
The Celsis Adapt™ unlocks advantages of utilising a single in-house RMM, achieving critical results necessary to ensure patient safety.
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European Pharmaceutical Review Issue 1 2022
In our latest journal, discover the innovations enabling drugs to be delivered across the blood-brain barrier, the challenges associated with downstream purification of cell and gene therapies, as well as applications of NIR spectroscopy in ingredient analysis. Also featured in this issue, explore the development and future potential of radiomolecular…
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NICE recommends first treatment for children with metachromatic leukodystrophy
The one-time gene therapy treatment for rare, neurodegenerative disease metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) is the most expensive drug ever evaluated by NICE.
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CHMP meeting highlights, January 2022
The EMA’s Human Medicines Committee (CHMP) recommended approval of Paxlovid for COVID-19 and a new gene therapy for large B-cell lymphomas.
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Key challenges for bio/pharmaceutical manufacturing 2022
What are the top six challenges facing pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturers in 2022? We spoke to representatives from four contract manufacturing and development organisations (CDMOs) – Samsung Biologics, Lonza, MedPharm and Genezen – to find out.
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Article: Evolving into an international biotech market driver
In 20 years BIOCAD grew from a pharma startup outside of Moscow to an international company producing both biosimilars and original products.
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New year, new cell and gene therapy collaborations
Here we run down four new research collaborations in the cell and gene therapy sector, announced by Bayer, BMS, Pfizer and Moderna.
