Therapeutic protein development and production is a very technically challenging, time consuming and expensive endeavor.
What are some of the challenges? There are numerous critical decisions that must be made with regard to mammalian cell line choice (CHO, NS0, etc.), appropriate gene and marker expression systems, cell culture medium and feed optimization, clone selection and scale-up strategies. Biopharmaceutical developers should be careful to choose options which deliver the following:
• Maximum protein titer
• Scalability (5L – 1000L)
• Long-term Stability
• Cost effectiveness
• Shortened development timelines
• No burdensome IP concerns
Why is it important and critical to understand these challenges? There are considerable economic considerations to be made; one should maximize financial budgets by minimizing expenditures on equipment and technologies required for in-house development and characterization of the therapeutic protein. It’s important to make efficient and productive investments in R&D; technology and process development requires highly trained and expert staff. There are also commercial or market considerations which will affect return on investments; to maximize IP and patent life the therapeutic protein must be developed and commercialized as quickly as possible to gain maximum market share in a highly competitive environment. First to market is paramount for biosimilar developers.
How has the CRO industry responded? “Turn-key” cell line development and bioanalytical testing CROs are currently open for business and accessible for outsourcing nearly all upstream, downstream and biomolecular analytical activities. Sartorius Stedim Biotech offer the most comprehensive, scalable and unique bioprocess portfolio to support Biosimilar development and manufacturing. With Sartorius Stedim Biotechs’ recent acquisition of Cellca (cell line development) and BioOutsource (bioanalytical and biosafety testing), there is now established a fully functional, and integrated CRO uniquely positioned to support clients development programs across the entire product lifecycle.
The result of outsourcing biopharmaceutical development and production to experienced CROs will have major positive implications for shortening the time to commercialization at significantly reduced costs.
To learn more about the industry leading Cellca CLD platform which delivers stable, high titre clones, (95% of projects have delivered titres >3.0g/litre) in a proven scalable fed batch manufacturing process in a cost and time efficient manner please join our talk by Dr. Brian Wendelburg at IBC Cell Line Development & Engineering Conference, San Francisco, 14th June at 1.25pm.
Author Bio:
Dr. Brian Wendelburg received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from the Institute of Molecular Biophysics at Florida State University. He then completed his postdoctoral training at the University of North Carolina’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. His professional career has involved diverse roles in sales and business development activities at leading Biotech companies such as Cepheid, Affymetrix and Miltenyi Biotec where he gained a strong technical background in genomics, proteomics and cell and gene therapy applications. He joined the Sartorius-Stedim Biotech team in the spring of 2016 and is currently Sr. Field Marketing Manager for the BioOutsource and Cellca divisions.
What are some of the challenges? There are numerous critical decisions that must be made with regard to mammalian cell line choice (CHO, NS0, etc.), appropriate gene and marker expression systems, cell culture medium and feed optimization, clone selection and scale-up strategies. Biopharmaceutical developers should be careful to choose options which deliver the following:
• Maximum protein titer
• Scalability (5L – 1000L)
• Long-term Stability
• Cost effectiveness
• Shortened development timelines
• No burdensome IP concerns
Why is it important and critical to understand these challenges? There are considerable economic considerations to be made; one should maximize financial budgets by minimizing expenditures on equipment and technologies required for in-house development and characterization of the therapeutic protein. It’s important to make efficient and productive investments in R&D; technology and process development requires highly trained and expert staff. There are also commercial or market considerations which will affect return on investments; to maximize IP and patent life the therapeutic protein must be developed and commercialized as quickly as possible to gain maximum market share in a highly competitive environment. First to market is paramount for biosimilar developers.
How has the CRO industry responded? “Turn-key” cell line development and bioanalytical testing CROs are currently open for business and accessible for outsourcing nearly all upstream, downstream and biomolecular analytical activities. Sartorius Stedim Biotech offer the most comprehensive, scalable and unique bioprocess portfolio to support Biosimilar development and manufacturing. With Sartorius Stedim Biotechs’ recent acquisition of Cellca (cell line development) and BioOutsource (bioanalytical and biosafety testing), there is now established a fully functional, and integrated CRO uniquely positioned to support clients development programs across the entire product lifecycle.
The result of outsourcing biopharmaceutical development and production to experienced CROs will have major positive implications for shortening the time to commercialization at significantly reduced costs.
To learn more about the industry leading Cellca CLD platform which delivers stable, high titre clones, (95% of projects have delivered titres >3.0g/litre) in a proven scalable fed batch manufacturing process in a cost and time efficient manner please join our talk by Dr. Brian Wendelburg at IBC Cell Line Development & Engineering Conference, San Francisco, 14th June at 1.25pm.
Author Bio:
Dr. Brian Wendelburg received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from the Institute of Molecular Biophysics at Florida State University. He then completed his postdoctoral training at the University of North Carolina’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. His professional career has involved diverse roles in sales and business development activities at leading Biotech companies such as Cepheid, Affymetrix and Miltenyi Biotec where he gained a strong technical background in genomics, proteomics and cell and gene therapy applications. He joined the Sartorius-Stedim Biotech team in the spring of 2016 and is currently Sr. Field Marketing Manager for the BioOutsource and Cellca divisions.
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