BioProcessing Journal

From the Editor-in-Chief: The Beneficial “Spin-Out” Business Model

Consistent with our well-established format, this issue contains a very interesting collection of technical articles. However, we have stepped outside our normal content with a manuscript on the successful implementation of a “spin-out” company that was formed to develop a highly specialized technology. I’m hoping that this article by Dr. Charlotte Dyring (ExpreS2ion Biotechnologies) will provide inspiration to others who have envisioned a similar business model, plus trace a roadmap for organizations which have discovered that mergers and acquisitions aren’t giving them the products or sustainable growth they really need…

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From the Editor-in-Chief: What Was Your Name Again?

The pace of M&As hasn’t slowed. It has become next to impossible to keep up with biotech company names, and some organizations can’t tell you what they are supposed to be called. I’m not exaggerating when I say that no one within some of these large organizations can tell you what name you should show in your database, what distinguishes their divisions, or what logo you should show as you give them credit for sponsoring an event or placing an ad…

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From the Editor-in-Chief: Stem-to-Stern, Continuous Process for Biologics?

Call me jaded. One of the latest fads in the production of biologics is “continuous processing.” So let’s concede that the upstream realm can lend itself to continuous processing, but the really hard stuff was always on the downstream side. Here we’ve had to deal with product clarification and purification, which typically involve crossflow (tangential) filtration and chromatography run in a batch mode, with regeneration steps in between whatever was considered a batch…

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From the Editor-in-Chief: The Best ROI — Employee Training and Career Development

I bet you are expecting me to rant and rave about M&A-focused business plans and how they are to blame for just about everything that is wrong with the biotech industry. Well, I guess I will a little, but I’m going to take a slightly different approach this time or you’ll probably quit reading my opinion pieces. So why not step back and look at this financial board game a little differently, where you consider employees to be a far better long-term investment than any company or technology you can buy?

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From the Editor-in-Chief: Building Businesses and Developing Strategic Partnerships

Thankfully, recent market fluctuations have made M&As less attractive, and we can see more firms committed to building the businesses they already have, and developing strategic partners instead of acquisition targets. For this issue, I want to address the developments that may mean we are entering some lofty times in the biotech industry…

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From the Editor-in-Chief: Innovative Small Companies

While I could be deluding myself with wishful thinking, I may be seeing the “new normal” evolving for the biotech industry. The “new normal” may very well be that the mass closing of R&D facilities and the cancellation of major programs is freeing up the CSOs and other entrepreneurs who will start their own companies…

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Beyond the Stainless Steel — The Real Capacity Crunch…

How do we ensure that the next generation of biotech medicines can be brought to market in a timely way, that they continue to be safe and effective and — of growing importance — are affordable by healthcare funding agencies, and profitable to the companies developing them?…

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Viral and Prion Clearance Studies

A major concern for medicinal products of biological origin is the potential risk of contamination with known or unknown viruses. Manufacturers of biopharmaceutical products (such as recombinant proteins and monoclonal antibodies, or products derived from blood, tissue, or urine) are required to assess the ability of their manufacturing process to produce a product that is safe for use in humans…

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Facility Design for Contract Manufacturing

The number of mammalian cell-culture based products is increasing rapidly and has the potential to out-pace the current production capacity. New facility construction for mammalian cell culture production is costly and time consuming. Planning for initial product launch and long-term commercial manufacturing can be daunting for promising products in late phase clinical trials…

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North Carolina’s Big Push Into Biomanufacturing

No state is losing more traditional manufacturing jobs than North Carolina, as its furniture, textile, and tobacco industries continue to decline with many companies going overseas for cheap labor. Manufacturing employment in the state has plunged by 140,000 workers during the last three years…

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