Europe Establishes First Facility for Cell-Based Therapeutics

Oct 24, 2012 By: Adeline Siew

On Oct. 22, 2012, a consortium in France announced the establishment of Europe’s first ever industrial manufacturing facility dedicated to the large-scale production of novel, advanced cell-based therapy medicinal products. The plant, located in Les Ulis, near Paris, at the site of the French biopharmaceutical company LFB Biotechnologies, has the capacity to produce 3000 to 5000 therapeutic batches per year. The facility will be used for innovative R&D projects on autologous and allogeneic cell therapies that are progressing from early clinical research stage up to industrial production.

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