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Minaris Regenerative Medicine’s leaders and experts are proud to share their knowledge and insight with the cell and gene therapy industry. Please review our current and past blog posts on topics of interest to this emerging industry.

*This page may include mention of our past company names as it reflects content distributed in the past. The former companies Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions (HCATS, formerly PCT or PCT Cell Therapy Services), apceth Biopharma GmBH are all now operations under the name Minaris Regenerative Medicine. Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. has been renamed Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd.
December 9, 2019

Harmonizing Core Platforms in the Delivery of Patient-Specific Cell Therapies to Accelerate Patient Access to Life-Changing Treatments

As our knowledge of human biology has grown, the newly found information has been leveraged to devise increasingly complicated treatments. This began with small molecule ...

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September 13, 2018

Think Beyond Cleanrooms for a Commercially-Sustainable Future

Maintaining a sterile environment is an absolute must for maintaining product sterility in cell therapy manufacturing. Although the cost of building cleanrooms has ...

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August 30, 2018

Is Scalability Possible for Patient-Specific Cell Therapy?

The traditional method of achieving scale in manufacturing is, typically, to increase production capacity so that more product can be sold. For example, with medicines ...

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March 20, 2018

[The Cell Culture Dish Podcast] Opportunities and Challenges in Cell Therapy Manufacturing

Dr. Robert Preti joins The Cell Culture Dish in advance of his upcoming keynote at CBI's Optimization of Cell and Gene Therapy Production Conference. The Cell Culture ...

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January 9, 2018

5 Considerations in the Preparation for Commercializing Cell Therapy

Cell therapy is still a relatively new form of treatment. As such, not that many cell therapies have successfully reached commercialization. Meeting FDA requirements at ...

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December 20, 2017

The Calculus for Success and the Nature of Innovation in the Cell Therapy Industry

As I contemplate the future landscape of this cell and gene-based medicine industry and how best it can be navigated, I am always less certain of precisely what the ...

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August 31, 2017

What to Look for in a Trusted cGMP Manufacturing Partnership

Taking a new cell therapy from early clinical trials all the way to commercial manufacturing is a long and difficult process that few have completed to date. There are ...

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April 18, 2017

Impact of Apheresis Collection Quality on Manufacturing of Cell Therapeutics

One of the most critical first steps in the development of many cell therapies is having optimized apheresis collections. Starting with variable or low-quality apheresis ...

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February 16, 2017

Challenges and Optimization of Apheresis Collection

On Thursday, February 23 from 2:00 – 3:30 PM EST, Sanjin Zvonic, PhD, PCT’s Senior Director, Business Leader, Clinical Cell Therapy Manufacturing, will be speaking as ...

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