Cytiva named as founding member of Watertown biomanufacturing facility
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Cytiva's regional offices in Marlborough
Marlborough’s Cytiva, the rebranded GE Healthcare Life Sciences, has been named as a founding member of a forthcoming 40,000 square-foot manufacturing and innovation center at the The Arsenal on the Charles in Watertown, according to a Thursday press release from Harvard University.
Once ready, the facility will be home to the Massachusetts Center for Advanced Biological Innovation and Manufacturing, or CABIM, which was founded in 2019. The site is expected to open in early 2022.
Cytiva sits on CABIM’s board of directors, which also includes Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, which maintains domestic offices in North Carolina and Texas, and Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. of California, which owns and operates The Arsenal. The initiative recently completed a $76 million fundraising effort.
“In order to serve patients better and faster, you need global collaboration between academic, biotechnology and industry partners. Ideas must be fostered and tested, materials must be available for testing, and manufacturing options must be at hand,” said Emmanuel Ligner, President and CEO of Cytiva, in a statement. “No one can achieve this alone. CABIM will create an ecosystem of the brightest minds across industries and immediate manufacturing capabilities to accelerate therapies for patients.”
Once open, CABIM will aim to help alleviate a backlog in biomanufacturing which can in turn delay research and development across the life sciences sphere. The facility is expected to be home to a pharma-grade manufacturing facility, with a plan for eight cleanrooms, as well as a modular configuration that founders say will enable the easy adoption of emerging technologies. The facility will produce both cell and viral vector products.
CABIM will also provide quality control, lab, office and gathering space intended to facilitate collaboration among area scientists.
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