Newsletter | November 3, 2025

11.03.25 -- Best Practices When Working With A CDMO

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Optimizing Safety Measures For rAAV Therapies

This white paper highlights the critical need to address process-related impurities that can arise during rAAV production, which may jeopardize patient safety. It also examines various analytical testing methods employed to detect and remove these impurities during downstream purification, ensuring the efficacy and safety of rAAV-based gene therapies. Read Now

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Manager Alignment And Integration: Best Practices When Working With A CDMO

This Q&A discusses best practices for integrating program managers into a sponsor company and how program managers help bridge the gaps between various stakeholders.

 

 

What Are The Keys To Making Rare Disease Drug Development Sustainable?

This roundtable weaves together diverse perspectives from across the industry, providing a multifaceted look at what it will take to create a sustainable path forward in rare disease drug development.

 

Navigating Complex Testing For Viral Vector-Based Gene Therapies

To ensure the long-term success of gene therapy programs, learn why it is crucial to partner with a CRO that not only understands the science but can navigate the challenges of viral vector development and testing.

 

Three-Dimensional Linkage Analysis With Digital PCR For Genome Integrity

A cost-effective approach with a comprehensive AAV analytical package holds the potential to advance the application of rAAV in cell and gene therapy for the treatment of human diseases.

 

Break Cell Therapy Manufacturing Bottleneck With Day-0 Transduction

Discover the potential of T1 cell-derived nanoparticles (CDNPs) to accelerate T-cell activation. See how CDNPs’ unique mechanism of mimicking physiological immune stimulation positions them for broad use.

 

Fragmented Outsourcing: Difficulties Of Working With Multiple Siloed Partners

By working with a single supplier that manages the manufacturing value chain—from early development through final production—companies can reduce risk, improve operational flexibility, and accelerate their time to market.

 

A High-Throughput Screening Platform For Optimizing AAV Production

To overcome persistent manufacturing bottlenecks and reduce the high cost of gene therapies, our ATLAS platform has identified novel factors that significantly boost rAAV9 production over 30-fold.

 

Opportunities To Accelerate Allogeneic Cell Therapy

Assimilate more about the potential of allogeneic cell therapies to combine the efficacy of personalized medicine with the scalability, accessibility, and uniformity of traditional off-the-shelf therapeutics.

 

Inside The Operational Hurdles Of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products

Despite rapid approvals, ATMP patient access is limited by operational bottlenecks. Successfully delivering these complex therapies demands tightly synchronized logistics and resilient contingency planning.

 

Unlocking The Power Of Spectral Flow

Unlock deeper insights into the immune system with spectral flow cytometry — a powerful tool to drive cell therapy development, optimize treatments, and improve patient outcomes.

 

Collaborate With A Partner To Bring Your Rare Disease Therapy To Clinic

Choosing the CDMO best suited to manufacture your rare disease therapy can be challenging. Ideally, a CDMO will prioritize your goals while working to ensure quality and regulatory success.

 

Compliance With Annex 1: Sterile Fill/Finish For Early Phase Clinical Supplies

Grasp the strategies for Annex 1 compliance, focusing on Contamination Control Strategy, Pre-Use Post Sterilization Integrity Testing, and critical zone controls to secure aseptic manufacturing processes.

 

Navigating The Analytical Complexity Of Oligonucleotide Therapeutics

From identity and purity testing using chromatography and electrophoresis to PCR and microbial studies, explore advanced analytical solutions tailored for siRNA, miRNA, pDNA, and mRNA products.

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Join Jon O'Connell and experts on this Cell & Gene Live event, exploring whether minimum viability can help gene therapy developers make smarter sourcing decisions — from research-grade production through clinical and commercial phases, where cost and quality can make or break a product. Registration is free with support from Roche CustomBiotech.

OUTSOURCING SOLUTIONS

Allogeneic CAR-T Cells - Excellos

Mammalian Services - 3PBIOVIAN

RNA Therapies - Recipharm Advanced Bio

Analytical Testing Capabilities - Comprehensive Cell Solutions, A Business Unit of NYBC Enterprises

Partnering With You From Preclinical Through Commercial Scale - Andelyn Biosciences

 
 

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Advancing the Future of Cell & Gene Therapy

This 11-12 November, Cell 2025 unites 1,000+ leading experts across the CGT value chain to solve key challenges, from scalable bioprocessing and regulatory hurdles to accelerating development timelines.

 

Gain practical strategies across cell culture, therapy development, and CGT manufacturing, and hear from world-renowned leaders Bobby Gaspar (CEO, Orchard Therapeutics), Christof Von Kalle, (Director & BIH Chair, Research Clinic Luxemburg), and Dame Molly Stevens (University of Oxford). Register Now

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