Indapta Therapeutics and Lonza Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance a Next-generation, Off-the-shelf, Allogeneic Immuno-oncology Therapy
January 10, 2020 at 04:30 pm
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Indapta Therapeutics Inc. and Lonza announced a strategic partnership. Indapta also announced its founding leadership team and scientific advisors. Under the terms of the agreement, Lonza will manufacture Indapta’s off-the-shelf, allogeneic G-NK cell therapy under current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) for use in clinical studies. Indapta will leverage Lonza’s process development capabilities and expertise to ensure a robust, reproducible and scalable cGMP process. Process development and manufacturing will take place in Lonza's state-of-the-art cell and gene therapy manufacturing facility in Houston.
Lonza Group AG is one of the world leaders of the development, production and marketing of chemical products. Net sales break down by family of products and services as follows:
- bio-pharmaceuticals (55.4%): exclusive syntheses, microbiological fermentation products , mammalian cell cultures, etc.;
- capsules and dosing solutions for biopharmaceuticals, drugs and nutrition products (17.3%). In addition, the group offers nutritional ingredients;
- small molecule drug substances (13.4%);
- technologies and platforms for manufacturing processes and production of cell and gene therapies (10.4%);
- other (3.5%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Switzerland (17.4%), Europe (31.7%), the United States (31.8%), the Americas (3.2%), Japan (8.1%), Asia (7.5%) and other (0.3%).
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