Clinical Supply Manufacturing Articles

  1. 7 New MHRA Guidances To Help You With Decentralized Manufacturing For Cell And Gene Therapies 7/3/2025

    The U.K.'s MHRA has followed through on its promise to issue guidances to aid industry in understanding the recent changes to regulations for licensure of medicines employing cell and gene therapy technology.

  2. On The Potency Assurance Journey, Travelers Need A Road Map 11/13/2025

    When regulatory expectations change by the phase, the route can be difficult and confusing to navigate for both new and experienced potency investigators.

  3. A Multi-Omics Approach For Characterizing Clinical-Scale iPSC Batches 11/6/2025

    The transition from 2D to 3D cell culture requires a combination of advanced analytical techniques, but aligning new methods with established principles can be challenging.

  4. How To Build Clinical Supply Into Drug Development From The Start 8/21/2026

    Clinical supply can do more than execute development decisions. Bringing it in early can expose product, process, packaging, and patient-access risks while they can still be changed.

  5. Luxturna Maker Spark Therapeutics' Flexible Platform Approach 8/28/2024

    The company proved the concept by bringing to market its AAV-based gene therapy for an inherited form of vision loss.

  6. Scaling Up Manufacturing? Here's Why You Need A CMC Specialist 6/16/2025

    CMC experts (whether in-house or outsourced) fill a vital role during the transition from small-scale production to larger operations for maintaining quality, consistency, and compliance.

  7. Designing Highly Agile Bio/Pharma Manufacturing Facilities 4/5/2024

    In bio/pharma, agile manufacturing is achieved through multipurpose designs that support a variety of unit operations manipulated and operated as independent yet connected modules. 

  8. Bridging Preclinical Science And Trial Supply Success 3/27/2026

    Bridging preclinical science and clinical supply ensures therapies reach patients efficiently. Early planning, collaboration, and flexible supply chains prevent costly delays.

  9. The Process Map To Ensure Biopharma Raw Materials Supply 8/16/2022

    In new product introduction, there is often a lack of a basic data package for a product being scaled up for clinical or launch supplies. This can lead to several issues, e.g., capacity and lead time restrictions, oversupply, and more. A stepwise process can be used as a guideline for introducing a material to support new drug substance manufacture.

  10. What Proposed Plasmid DNA Standards Say For GMP/Non-GMP Production 3/8/2024

    Today’s standards for plasmid DNA production lack specificity, and manufacturers have been clamoring for more. In late 2023, USP published draft General Chapter <1040> to help fill in the cracks.