Welcome to another posting of ‘Industry Insight with Chester,’ a periodic round-up of news and views from around the Pharma and biopharma industries compiled by Chester Solack, Business Analyst at SAFC in Lenexa, Kansas.
Archive for the ‘Cell biology’ Category
Industry Insight with Chester: A Collection of Current Industry Updates
Friday, May 18th, 2012A Deeper Look Into the New CHOZN® Platform System for Recombinant Protein Production
Friday, April 13th, 2012On Wednesday, April 11th, SAFC announced the launch of the CHOZN cell platform system for biopharma producers to create and scale up high producing clones more quickly and easily. Here, SAFC Live speaks to Kevin Kayser, Associate Director of Cell Sciences and Development at SAFC, about why the platform was developed, and what it can do.
BREAKING NEWS: SAFC Launches CHOZN® Platform System to Accelerate Recombinant Protein Drug Development
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012Today, SAFC announced the launch of the CHOZN® Platform System to accelerate recombinant protein drug development. The new platform allows faster and simpler selection of high producing clones for use in recombinant protein drugs, as well as facilitating a more efficient scale-up process. The full press release is available below.
Nature Method Award Celebrates SAFC’s ZFN Technology
Monday, April 9th, 2012For the third year in a row, SAFC is the proud winner of a Nature Method award. The awards, presented annually by Nature.com, highlight revolutionary methods in genome and cell products and manufacturing. In 2012, SAFC received the award for their ZFN technology. An abstract highlighting the winning presentation follows: http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v9/n1/full/nmeth.1805.html.
To learn more about SAFC’s Cell Design Studio, which includes ZFN technologies and services, please click here.
To directly contact SAFC for more information about products and services, please click here.
BREAKING NEWS: Sigma-Aldrich Acquires Research Organics to Strengthen Portfolio of PharmaGrade Raw Materials
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012Yesterday, Sigma-Aldrich announced the acquisition of Research Organics, a leading supplier of biochemicals for use in various bioprocessing, biotechnology and diagnostic applications. The addition means that SAFC will now be able to offer dual sourced buffers, as well as an expansion of the raw materials catalog of products. As executives for both companies noted, the acquisition has been made with an end goal of increasing quality of service and capacity to partner with customers on both standard and custom project solutions.
To read the full press release, please click below. To learn more about SAFC’s line of PharmaGrade Products, please click here.
SAFC Presents at the Upcoming ICH Q3D Metal Impurities Workshop in Bethesda, Maryland
Monday, April 2nd, 2012From April 4-5, 2012, delegates will gather at the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland for the two day ICH Q3D Metal Impurities Workshop that will feature a program focused on the new limits for element impurities in drug products and how they may impact businesses in the pharma industry.
On Wednesday, April 4th at 9am, SAFC Quality Assurance Director, Patty Benson, will participate in a panel titled “Perspectives From Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Suppliers”, along with a lineup of speakers from industry colleagues, the IPEC-Americas, CHPA and SOCMA’s Bulk Pharmaceutical Task Force (BPTF) to discuss the draft guidelines and implications data will have, as well as the impact on pharmaceuticals. Patty’s input from an API maker’s perspective will be complemented with an excipient user perspective from Janeen Skutnik-Wilkinson, Director of Quality and Regulatory Policy at Pfizer Inc. and an excipient maker perspective from David Schoneker, Director of Global Regulatory Affairs at Colorcon.
We hope to see you there to learn, network and exchange information amongst industry peers. To learn more about registration for the event, please click here. To learn more about SAFC, please click here.
SAFC at CPhI Japan 2012
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
SAFC Manager, Toru Kobayashi, accepts an award of recognition for ten years of exhibiting at the CPhI Japan event.
CPhI Japan 2012 got underway today and SAFC is onsite as an exhibitor (located at Booth H-16) and presenter. This year, the show celebrates it’s 10th anniversary and event organizers, UBM Live, took time to recognize the exhibiting companies that have been there since the beginning. SAFC is one of those companies and earlier today was recognized as part of a group of 47 exhibitors that have experienced the past ten years of CPhI Japan.
Here, SAFC Live takes a moment to talk with Toru Kobayashi, SAFC Manager for the Japan Market, about how the market has recovered from natural disaster and what the Japanese pharma, biopharma and chemicals market has in store for the future.
