RD-BIOTECH completes its biomanufacturing offer with a new production unit for DNA plasmids, raw materials for the pharmaceutical industry (GMP grade - Good Manufacturing Practices)

Winner of the France Relance 2021 prize

RD-Biotech saw the project to build its “GMP plasmids” production unit selected by the French government.

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This bioproduction unit will complement our current capacities for the production of plasmid DNA, R&D grade and High-Quality grade, and will allow us to meet the growing demands of the market for new cell and gene therapies requiring plasmid DNA as biological starting material:

  • Gene therapy – Therapeutic viruses: applications in oncology, hereditary diseases, …
  • Gene therapy – CAR T Cells: applications in oncology, leukaemia
  • Therapeutic mRNAs: applications in oncology, autoimmune diseases, vaccines including covid-19 vaccines

Currently, RD-Biotech offers 3 levels of expertise:

Molecular biology

Molecular biology: design and construction of plasmids

Production of plasmids, R&D grade

Production of plasmids, “High Quality” grade

And soon a 4th level of expertise

Production of plasmids, "GMP" grade (BPF)

Opening of this new unit is scheduled mid-2023, in the TEMIS Santé technology park, Besançon (France):

  • More than 1,200 square meters of GMP Grade laboratories
  • Several independent production suites

Coming soon, our GMP grade DNA plasmid production unit providing support for our customers from the R&D phases to the commercial phases of advanced therapy drug production.

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