Merck announced the opening of its first joint Process Scale-Up Lab in Bengaluru, India to provide end-to-end solutions from process development to scale-up manufacturing for pre-clinical, clinical and commercial supply. This lab, which is a collaboration with Stelis Biopharma, is located at the Stelis Biopharma R&D Facility in the Jigani industrial estate.
"Both Merck and Stelis bring technological expertise and an extensive bioprocess development and manufacturing portfolio that will help customers accelerate development of biopharmaceuticals for clinical trials and manufacturing with greater reliability and cost effectiveness," Udit Batra, Member of the Merck Executive Board and CEO, Life Science said.
The lab is a center of excellence for process scale-up and manufacturing services. The collaboration brings together Stelis' end-to-end capabilities in high-yield bioprocess development from cell line to commercial manufacturing scale and Merck's industry leading technological expertise in bioprocessing.
The Process Scale-Up Lab and a soon-to-be-completed cGMP manufacturing facility will house Merck's portfolio of Mobius bioprocessing equipment and single-use manufacturing components. Merck will provide process know-how and application knowledge to help establish the single-use platform technologies at Stelis as part of the collaboration.