Merck has opened its first BioReliance® End-to-End Biodevelopment center in China. The Shanghai center is the company's first outside of Europe.
Merck has announced the opening of its first BioReliance End-to-End Biodevelopment Center in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Located in Shanghai, China, the center will provide a full range of process development capabilities and services, including cell line development, upstream and downstream process development and non-GMP clinical production.
"Our new BioReliance End-to-End Biodevelopment Center will host small-scale drug manufacturers working on early-phase clinical trials," said Udit Batra, Member of the Merck Executive Board and CEO, Life Science. "Merck has 30 years of process development experience and a track record of delivering robust clinical production process and clinical material within nine to 12 months. We look forward to advancing scientific discovery and innovation in China and beyond."
The Shanghai center is designed to meet the specific needs of customers in the APAC region. Staffed by local process scientists and engineers, the center will provide an integrated suite of services for biopharmaceutical companies in China and across APAC to accelerate clinical drug development from molecule to commercial production. Customers will get full support, not only with process development or production, but also with regulatory, quality and training.
Merck's end-to-end global team has a track record of executing nearly 240 large molecule projects, ranging in scale from three- to 2,000-liters. Early-stage companies with limited resources and infrastructure can benefit from Merck's expertise and experience in process development and GMP clinical manufacturing to advance their early clinical development programs. Additionally, Merck's end-to-end approach can facilitate and accelerate scaling, process and analytical method validation and technical transfer of an entire process to a customer-designated location.
Merck's end-to-end offering delivers important benefits and addresses key challenges for biopharmaceutical companies at all stages of molecule development and commercialization in any geography.
Merck's BioReliance End-to-End Biodevelopment Center in Martillac, France, is a fully operational, single-use, GMP facility for manufacturing clinical-stage batches. Equipped with a full suite of Merck technologies, including the 2000-liter single-use Mobius® bioreactor, Martillac offers biopharma companies a complete solution to support their clinical development programs.
Merck's BioReliance End-to-End Biodevelopment Center in Burlington, Massachusetts, USA will provide a full range of process development capabilities and services. This includes cell line development services and both upstream and downstream process development, as well as non-GMP clinical production.