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Home » GenCure announces breakthrough first run of 80-liter bioreactor
Large Scale MSC Manufacturing

GenCure announces breakthrough first run of 80-liter bioreactor

August 14, 2019 By Cade Hildreth (CEO) Leave a Comment

Biomanufacturing CDMO among first to harvest adult stem cells at large scale

Human MSC Manufacturing

SAN ANTONIO, Texas – In a breakthrough for the regenerative medicine industry, GenCure announced today that its biomanufacturing services team has successfully completed production runs expanding and harvesting human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) in an 80-liter bioreactor.  GenCure, a subsidiary of BioBridge Global (BBG), announced a major expansion of its biomanufacturing facilities in February of this year.

The move to an 80-liter bioreactor addresses a critical need in the cell therapy industry for producing large-scale, consistent, clinical-grade adult stem cells needed to bring potential new therapies into clinical trials. GenCure is among the first contract manufacturing and development organizations (CDMO) to produce MSCs at this scale.

“What sets GenCure apart from many existing cell therapy CDMOs is that, by having stem cell expansion capabilities at this scale, we are able to provide manufacturing and development services from early phase clinical trials through late stage clinical trials and commercialization,” said Mike Fiske, Vice President of Manufacturing with GenCure.

The harvest was the first series of runs in which a 50-liter batch of roughly 1 billion bone-marrow derived hMSCs was expanded into tens of billion within a 10-day timeframe. Five to seven more runs are planned to refine the manufacturing process.

“This is a tremendous step in advancing new therapies in cell therapy and regenerative medicine,” said Becky Cap, Chief Operating Officer for GenCure. “In cell therapy, you need large numbers of cells per batch to create clinical doses that are consistent to give to multiple patients. With this bioreactor technology, you can increase the number of patients treated with a single, consistent production run, by tenfold.”

GenCure joined with RoosterBio, Inc. to develop and implement the process at cGMP-
compliant standards, which was funded through a three-year, $8.9 million contract from the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium to develop large-scale manufacturing capabilities for clinical-grade stem cells to be used in research and therapeutic applications. Other collaborators on the project include two San Antonio-based organizations: U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research and StemBioSys, Inc.

The bioreactor test runs come ahead of BBG’s expansion of the GenCure biomanufacturing facility at the VelocityTX innovation center in San Antonio, expected to be complete in the fourth quarter of 2019. As the anchor tenant, the nonprofit will lease 21,000 square feet of space for process development, manufacturing, and additional space for later buildout.

“As the anchor tenant of the VelocityTX accelerator program, we are expanding the manufacturing capabilities of GenCure and the cell therapy industry,” said Cap. “Fulfilling the need to scale up adult stem cells for clinical trials helps advance potential new therapies for a range of diseases and conditions.”

In addition to contract manufacturing services, GenCure and BBG’s subsidiaries provide development services including process and analytical development, access to quality control testing, a robust quality management system and development of documentation to support regulatory filings.

About GenCure

GenCure, a subsidiary of San Antonio-based nonprofit BioBridge Global, is focused on enabling the development of cell-based therapies by providing access to source materials, cGMP biomanufacturing experience and clinical research support. GenCure focuses on regenerative medicine through the Texas Cord Blood Bank, a biomanufacturing facility, an apheresis center and a deceased donor tissue bank. Learn more at GenCure.org.

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Filed Under: MSCs, Press Releases Tagged With: Biobridge Global, GenCure, manufacturing

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About Cade Hildreth (CEO)

Cade Hildreth is the Founder of BioInformant.com, the world's largest publisher of stem cell industry news. Cade is a media expert on stem cells, recently interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, Xconomy, and Vogue Magazine. 

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