Today, 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.
BREAKING NEWS: SAFC Launches CHOZN® Platform System to Accelerate Recombinant Protein Drug Development
Posted by SAFC April 11 2012
Nature Method Award Celebrates SAFC’s ZFN Technology
Posted by SAFC April 9 2012
For 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.
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BREAKING NEWS: Sigma-Aldrich Acquires Research Organics to Strengthen Portfolio of PharmaGrade Raw Materials
Posted by SAFC April 3 2012
Yesterday, 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
Posted by SAFC April 2 2012
From 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 Lives: Toru Kobayashi, SAFC Manager in Tokyo, Japan
Posted by SAFC March 23 2012
Toru Kobayashi, SAFC Manager, Tokyo
Recently, SAFC Live caught up with Toru Kobayashi, SAFC Manager in Tokyo, Japan at CPhI Japan, where he gave us an overview of the Japanese market and shared an award that SAFC received for ten years of participation at CPhI Japan. Here, we had an opportunity to speak with Toru on a more personal level in this next installment of SAFC Lives.
SAFC Lives presents personnel profiles where we talk to the people and personalities who make SAFC tick, and find out something about their work, what drives them, their aspirations, and what they enjoy doing when they’re not playing a critical role in the ongoing growth of SAFC.
SAFC at CPhI Japan 2012
Posted by SAFC March 22 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.
SAFC at Informex 2012: The Roundup
Posted by SAFC March 14 2012
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- SAFC sponsors the Informex Networking Lounge
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- The SAFC Booth at Informex 2012
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- SAFC partners with Rx-360 and Informex to support Habitat for Humanity in NOLA
It is hard to believe that Informex 2012 is already a month behind us. SAFC spent a productive week at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA with industry colleagues old and new. SAFC was not only an exhibitor and presenter at the show, but also took involvement one step further through a social media sponsorship that included sponsoring the Informex Networking Lounge. Over the three days in NOLA, the Lounge offered attendees with a place to meet, network and participate in social media.
