Stella Vnook, a seasoned veteran in the pharmaceutical industry with extensive experience in senior leadership roles at Catalent, Merck, and Diverse Biotech, has been a prominent figure in the field, particularly in oncology, for over 25 years.
At Advanced Therapies Europe 2023, BioPharma Reporter caught up with ScaleReady's Jenny Stjernberg to discuss her work at the biotech company, her journey from academia to commercial and female representation in the cell and gene therapies industry....
With so many advanced therapies on the horizon, the next few years are poised to be one of significant progress for patients with over 2000 cell and gene therapies in active clinical trials globally.
The organization has given 29 research grants to scientists representing 17 different US institutions pursuing lymphoma treatments and cures in their work.
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Year-on-year, the number of trials for advanced therapeutics has doubled, meaning that the UK now represents 12% of all global clinical trials in the area.
GE Healthcare tops its C-Pro cell processing system with SpinOculation, an automation software that enables closed T cells transduction at the preferred volume and concentration.
Early dialogue with patients is ‘critical’ to design efficient clinical development programs for ATMPs and avoid ‘data gaps’, an executive from ARM says.
Atelerix to work on the development of gel stabilisation technologies enabling room temperature storage of Rexgenero’s cell therapy candidate, under an Innovate UK grant.
Cognate BioServices closes a round of growth capital from EW Healthcare Partners to secure its capabilities for the commercialization of advanced cellular therapies.
The cell and gene therapy industry cannot grow without a ‘standardized, systematized, industrialized foundation,’ according to experts from Lonza and Vineti, which have teamed up to advance a ‘vein-to-vein’ delivery network.
Onconova to use Mission Bio’s Tapestri targeted single-cell DNA analysis platform to advance its cancer therapy, rigosertib, into Phase III clinical trials.
SGS’ completed the ₤8.7m expansion of its large molecule testing facility in Glasgow and made room to increase its existing biosafety service and PCR platform capabilities.
Thermo Fisher Scientific bolsters its gene therapy capabilities by acquiring Brammer Bio for $1.7bn, as the market becomes an ‘increasing focus’ for customers.
Lonza and Israel-based Sheba Medical collaborate to use the CDMO’s manufacturing platform for point-of-care genetically engineered human CAR-T cell production.
World Courier has made a multimillion-dollar investment in its supply chain technology to help meet the expanding needs of the pharmaceutical industry.
Vertex was granted marketing authorization for its cystic fibrosis therapy in a combination regimen, marking the company’s third treatment for the condition to reach the market.
A study published by graduate students at MIT showed that a synthetic mRNA-based ‘programming language’ can control protein expression in gene therapy.
Thermo Fisher opened a new business center and biorepository along with an expanded distribution center, to help support mounting demand for clinical trial supply chain logistics.
Cryoport is supporting a record number of clinical trials driven by rapid growth in regenerative medicine – a space that will continue to grow and outpace the pharmaceutical industry, says CCO.
Frequency Therapeutics initiates a Phase I/II clinical trial for hearing restoration, using progenitor cell activator technology for the first time in adult patients.
Gilead says it is committed to driving down costs of CAR-T manufacturing after agreeing to buy late-stage cell and gene therapy firm KitePharma for $11.9bn.
Hitachi Chemical Co. America will increase its presence in the cell therapy development and manufacturing space through the $75m acquisition of Caladrius Biosciences subsidiary PCT.
Know-how underpinning the tech astronauts use to detect infections in space could streamline cell therapy manufacturing according to new GE Healthcare partner LeukoDx.
Dispatches from Cell Therapy Manufacturing & Gene Therapy Congress
Cell therapy development and production will not be sustainable unless there is a vendor-led shift to automated processes, said experts in Brussels yesterday.
China-based CDMO WuXi PharmaTech unveiled Thursday that it will soon begin construction on its third cell therapy manufacturing facility -- a 145,000-square-foot cGMP facility in Philadelphia.
A new cell therapy development centre has opened at Guy’s Hospital in London today in the latest stage of a Government-backed effort to establish the UK as a global hub.
Government-backing for a large-scale cell therapy centre is justified because it will help developers navigate the “valley of death” in which many early-phase projects fail says the team planning the new manufacturing hub.
The UK's cell therapy industry now has a database of all ongoing clinical trials in the country with the aim of expanding research partnerships and pushing more early-stage trials to later stages.
Cambrex has initiated a project aimed at constructing a new
facility to accommodate four cGMP-compliant suites dedicated to
cell therapy manufacturing. The company said the expansion would
increase its manufacturing capacity by 100...