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Tuesday 24 March 2009

Consortium wins manufacturing technology grant

A consortium of US and UK companies has been awarded an $11m phase 2 contract by the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) - Joint Science and Technology Office, Transformational Medical Technologies Initiative (TMTI), to develop technology for accelerated monoclonal antibody and vaccine manufacturing. The consortium combines Xcellerex’s microbial process development and single-use manufacturing technologies with Dowpharma’s Pfenex expression technology, deltaDOT’s analytical technology and BioPharm Services' systems integration, data management/process economics, and simulated event modeling technology. The consortium won a phase 1 grant in July 2007 (FINE Newsletter, 19 July 2007).
Boston Globe

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