Protagen Protein Services (PPS) announced that it will merge with GeneWerk, an Ampersand portfolio company. With the addition of GeneWerk’s unique capabilities in vector safety, characterization, and functionality analysis, PPS will complement its current analytical testing offering in protein characterization identity, purity, potency and capsid loading to become a full-service partner in gene therapy testing for the biopharmaceutical industry.
This merger allows the biopharmaceutical industry to benefit from the most advanced, integrated set of analytical services capabilities in biologic development from early development through drug approval to commercialization. The combined organization will have more than 175 employees across four sites in Europe and North America.
“The combination of Protagen Protein Services (PPS) and GeneWerk will establish a leading, analytical CRO serving the most thriving and innovative therapeutic segments within the global biopharmaceutical industry. We are excited to join forces with the GeneWerk team, who have established unique, worldwide excellence in cell and gene therapy and helped to establish the industry standard of integration site analysis for all vector delivery systems,” outlined Martin Blüggel, CEO Protagen Protein Services GmbH.
“We are impressed by PPS’ scientific background and are eager to join with our scientific excellence. By integrating our analytic platforms, programs and expertise with PPS, we look forward to working closely with premier biopharmaceutical companies to design, generate and deliver integrated, best-in-class analytical data packages and strategic support along the full development spectrum from developability, lead optimization, clone selection and process development to vector safety, gene editing targets, sequence analysis and gene expression,” commented Dr. Manfred Schmidt, Managing Director and Co-Founder of GeneWerk GmbH.
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