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Clinical trial manufacturing

Our philosophy is ‘compliance by design’. This is equally appliable to production processes and production facilites. The result is a high quality robust build, with three segregated clean room suites which in combination provide the capacity to manufacture mammalian, microbial and viral technologies (to Category level 2 containment) for the production of natural or recombinant proteins, whole cells or virus products.

Quality …

Full flexibility of the suites is achieved through a combination of design features which include skid-mounted equipment, break out panelling, fallow space, additional utility points and a high reliance on disposable technology. Validated equipment from highly reputable suppliers, robust utilities with pre-specified redundancy together with a team of dedicated pharmaceutical engineers ensures that the facility operates consistently and remains within control.

… and flexibility

The adaptable nature of the suites without the constraints of a platform technology ensures that there are very few biotech-based products that we cannot manufacture. The range of cGMP production services and capacities initially available include the following:

Cell banking:

  • Eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell bank production and storage
  • Viral seed stock production and storage

Fermentation batch/fed-batch and perfusion:

  • Mammalian - up to 200L with capacity for a second 200L vessel
  • Microbial - up to 100L with capacity for a second 100L vessel
  • Viral - various disposable systems up to 25L volume with facility to run 20L fermenter in the future

Downstream purification technologies include:

  • Homogenisation
  • Continuous and batch centrifugation
  • UF/MF and diafiltration
  • Depth filtration
  • Chromatography (IEX, HIC and SEC Affinity)

Good people also need the right tools to do a great job