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Minaris Regenerative Medicine is proud to share current and past news and announcements from its over twenty years of experience. Please see below for our press releases and announcements.

*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, fomerly PCT or PCT Cell Therapy Services), apceth Biopharma GmbH, and Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. have been renamed Minaris Regenerative Medicine and are part of the Resonac Group.
April 3, 2019

Hitachi Chemical Co. Ltd. Completes Acquisition of apceth Biopharma GmbH, Expanding Global Footprint of its Cell and Gene Therapy Contract Development and Manufacturing Services

April 3, 2019 – We are pleased to announce that Hitachi Chemical Co. Ltd. (Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Hisashi Maruyama; hereinafter “Hitachi Chemical”) has completed its acquisition of apceth Biopharma GmbH (Head Office: Munich, Germany; CEO: Dr. Christine Guenther; hereinafter “apceth Biopharma”), a contract manufacturer of cell and gene therapy products, adding its ...

January 31, 2019

Hitachi Chemical Co. Ltd. to Acquire apceth Biopharma GmbH, Expanding Global Footprint of its Cell and Gene Therapy Contract Development and Manufacturing

Allendale, NJ, United States, January 31, 2019 - Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions, LLC announces an agreement by which apceth Biopharma GmbH (“apceth Biopharma”), a contract manufacturer of cell and gene therapy products, will join Hitachi Chemical’s PCT global services platform. apceth Biopharma manufactures cell and gene therapy products for American and European clients through ...

January 29, 2019

Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions Completes Technology Transfer to Enable Manufacturing of MaxCyte’s CARMA™ Cell Therapy for Clinical Use

Allendale, NJ, United States, January 29, 2019 - Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions, LLC (HCATS) announced it has successfully completed the technology transfer and implementation of the manufacturing process and commenced manufacturing services for dosing of patients in MaxCyte, Inc.’s Phase I dose-escalation clinical trial of MCY-M11 in the United States. MaxCyte MCY-M11, its ...

November 16, 2018

apceth Biopharma GmbH Manufactures DCprime’s Cell-Based Cancer Vaccine for Phase II Clinical Study

Munich, Germany, November 16, 2018 - apceth Biopharma GmbH, an established contract manufacturing organization in the field of gene and cell therapy, has started supplying clinical batches of DCprime’s cell-based cancer vaccine DCP-001 to a phase II clinical study for the treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). AML is a haematological cancer characterized by high risk of relapse, even after ...

October 5, 2018

apceth to Manufacture First Potential One-Time Gene Therapy for Transfusion Depended β-thalassemia

Munich, Germany, Oct 5th, 2018 - apceth Biopharma GmbH, a leading company for the development and manufacturing of cell and gene therapeutics, congratulates its partner bluebird bio on the acceptance and validation of its market authorization application by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). bluebird bio has applied for market authorization of its investigational LentiGlobin™ gene therapy for ...

October 1, 2018

Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions Signs Three-Year Agreement with GSK

Allendale, NJ, United States, October 1, 2018 - Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions, LLC (HCATS) announced today that they have signed a three-year clinical manufacturing agreement with GSK, a science-led global healthcare company. Under the agreement, HCATS will manufacture GSK’s SPEAR T-cell receptor therapy targeting NY-ESO-1 for the US, Canadian and European trials. NY-ESO is ...

September 25, 2018

Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions and Rutgers University - New Brunswick Announce Collaboration on Graduate-Level Bioengineering Course

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions, LLC (HCATS), a U.S. subsidiary of Hitachi Chemical Co. Ltd. that engages in contract manufacturing and development of regenerative medicine products, and Rutgers University–New Brunswick’s School of Engineering today announced a collaboration to launch a graduate-level course, “Integrative Molecular and Cellular ...

September 24, 2018

Announcing Transition for the Role of Chief Operating Office of HCATS

After three years of operations leadership for Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions (HCATS), William (Bill) Monteith will be leaving HCATS with transition expected to complete by November 2018. Brian Hanifin will fill the role of Interim Head of Technical Operations for HCATS. Brian has 25+ years of extensive pharmaceutical experience leading internal company plants. He has been an ...

March 19, 2018

Hitachi Chemical Signed Agreement for Clinical Manufacturing of Regenerative Medicine with Daiichi Sankyo

March 19, 2018 - Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Hisashi Maruyama; hereinafter “Hitachi Chemical”) announces the signing of an agreement with Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; hereinafter “Daiichi Sankyo”) for clinical manufacturing*1 of Regenerative Medicine developed by Daiichi Sankyo for the Japanese market. Hitachi Chemical ...

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