Abstract
Standard methodologies for generating therapeutic cell products (with or without gene modification) continue to change as the field matures. BioPhorum has identified significant gaps in publicly available information describing industrial practices for production of cell and gene-modified cell therapies. Therefore, members of BioPhorum’s Cell and Gene Therapy Commercialization workstream have generated a series of cell and gene-modified cell therapy process maps that represent example processes, unit operations and platform technologies being used in manufacturing today. These maps are intended to be used to form a common frame of reference for scientists and engineers working within the field and support collaboration to enable process improvements benefitting future cell therapy patients by supporting acceleration of commercialization of novel modalities. They are also intended as an education tool for new members to the cell therapy field.
Abstract
Viral vector manufacturing is a relatively nascent field, with companies working in many different therapeutic areas, and employing a wide range of processes and procedures. Therefore, members of BioPhorum’s Cell & Gene Therapy Commercialization workstream has generated a set of gene therapy process maps that represent example processes, unit operations and platform technologies being used within in vivo gene therapy manufacturing. These gene therapy process maps are intended to be used as an initial introduction to the in vivo gene therapy manufacture processes and so act as an educational tool for people new to the field. They are also intended to form a general platform baseline for scientists and engineers working within the field to support collaboration enabling process improvements and accelerating commercialization of viral vector manufacturing.
