Newsletter | March 19, 2026

03.19.26 -- Your Guide To AAV Success: Characterization, QC, And Viral Clearance Strategies

Accelerate Your AAV Journey To IND And Beyond

Quality control for AAV-based gene therapies is evolving quickly, and regulatory expectations are becoming more exacting. Explore essential QC strategies in AAV gene therapy and how to address rcAAV detection and impurity profiling using NGS to meet evolving regulatory demands.

 

Adapting A Hybrid Analysis For AAV Characterization

Combining the strengths of both sequencing methods can help deliver clearer genome assemblies. Gain insights into utilizing hybrid long-read and short-read sequencing to analyze adeno-associated virus capsids to enhance biosafety testing while achieving high identity mapping.

 

Navigating Next-Generation Quality Control Strategies For AAV Testing

AAV-based gene therapies, while promising for treating genetic diseases, require rigorous quality control through advanced methodologies like TCID50 for infectivity, next-generation sequencing for variant detection, viral clearance studies, and potency assays to ensure compliance.

 

Road To Approval: Clearance Strategies For Non-Enveloped Viral Vectors

Learn how to pinpoint potential sources of viral contaminants, establish manufacturing steps to remove or inactivate contaminants, and make key distinctions between designing a viral clearance study for non-enveloped viral vectors versus those for mAbs or recombinant proteins.

 

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