FROM CONCEPT TO MARKET – UNIQUE APPROACHES IN BIOMANUFACTURING

Presented by Jincai Li, Vice President of WuXi Biologics and Kevin Mullen, Sr. Product Manager, Single-Use Systems at Thermo Fisher Scientific

With the rapid growth of the biotherapeutics industry, the need and challenge for high-quality cost-efficient production have been increasing as well. At the same time, the number of approved biologics products are also steadily increasing, and more and more products are being developed by small to mid-size biotech companies, with product market size that varies greatly and therefore leading to varying production scale needs. The presentation will talk about the paradigm shifts in today’s facility design and operations, with the multi-purpose facility and smaller, the modular facility being favoured by many companies. In addition, the rapid adoption of disposable technology has enabled faster and lower cost facility design & start-up. With the modular, disposable technologies, the unique “scale-out” approach has the advantage of providing the highest flexibility to customers while simultaneously lowering tech transfer and scale-up risks. The presentation will also cover the continuous bioprocessing concept and share WuXi’s efforts in this area