
ABOUT ROCHE CUSTOMBIOTECH
From vaccines and immunotherapies to protein replacement and cell reprogramming, interest in mRNA manufacturing has surged. Decades before the pandemic, Roche CustomBiotech has supplied nucleotides and enzymes for mRNA production. We work with many pioneering mRNA companies to develop and manufacture needed raw material solutions. In collaboration with therapeutic manufacturers, our portfolio has evolved to meet the changing needs of the mRNA field. Always abreast with market developments, Roche CustomBiotech enables a new generation of mRNA therapeutics. Our guiding tenet is to minimize variation of products built on our raw materials by ensuring best quality, high performance within narrow tolerances, and reliable delivery.
Remaining at the front of this fast-paced therapeutic space hinges not only on ideas and implementation, but also on speed and quality. Your expertise is coming up with the idea and the implementation; as a long-standing global supplier, Roche CustomBiotech’s expertise in raw materials can help you accelerate development and ensure high quality mRNA. We help you strengthen your supply chain, ease transfers to manufacturing, secure continuous production, and create consistently high-quality products.
FEATURED INSIGHTS
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From harsh chemicals to gentle enzymes: Explore the groundbreaking shift in nucleotide synthesis, making drug manufacturing cleaner, greener, and more efficient.
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While organizations adapt to evolving safety and efficacy standards for mRNA, collaboration remains essential for navigating challenges like differing regional requirements, higher dosing needs, and analytical complexities.
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Optimizing in vitro transcription (IVT) for mRNA is crucial to improving the stability of these molecules and enabling their large-scale production.
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Advancements in purification, delivery mechanisms, and stability during storage and transport will enable the future of mRNA-based therapies.
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Compared to traditional protein-based therapies, mRNA drugs exhibit unique pharmacokinetic profiles and can be rapidly developed, making overcoming their challenges critical for the industry.
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Optimize your mRNA production by identifying an optimum set of conditions for the IVT reaction that produces high-quality mRNA in high yield using a design of experiment (DoE) approach.
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Explore guidelines for the use of SP6 RNA Polymerase in mRNA synthesis and your mRNA production processes.
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Learn about the problem of immunogenicity of mRNA, modified mRNA via in vitro transcription production, and choosing fit-for-purpose modified ribonucleotides.
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Learn about tools to optimize the IVT reaction for enhanced mRNA yield, along with how factors such as magnesium ion and nucleotide concentrations significantly impact that IVT reaction performance.
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Explore the advantages of mRNA technology, the process steps of large-scale mRNA production, and the effect of common contaminants on mRNA manufacturing.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Roche CustomBiotech
9115 Hague Road
Indianapolis, IN 46250
UNITED STATES
Phone: 1-800-428-5433
Contact: Laura Compton
SOLUTIONS
VIDEOS
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During every Cell & Gene Live, our expert panelists provide actionable responses to real-time questions from the audience. Here, panelists share information on categorizing raw materials, linear DNA, the future of the mRNA supply chain, and more.
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In this segment, Joseph Barberio of Strand Therapeutics and Christian Moreno of Nutcracker Therapeutics share their insight on what’s needed to achieve success in scaling mRNA therapeutics.
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mRNA product storage can be challenging due to extremely low temperature requirements. Here, Joseph Barberio of Strand Therapeutics and Christian Moreno of Nutcracker Therapeutics share their take on existing cold chain challenges.
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This segment features a discussion around the obstacles to establishing a standardized production pipeline for mRNA therapeutics across the industry as well as some the approaches being considered to standardize cold chain management protocols for mRNA products.
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Joseph Barberio of Strand Therapeutics and Christian Moreno of Nutcracker Therapeutics share how their companies ensure data integrity and privacy compliance throughout R&D and manufacturing.
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In this first segment from Cell & Gene Live, we explore the state of the mRNA therapeutics supply chain and the major bottlenecks that exist today, including non-GMP grade reagents to sourcing DNA.
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Together, Omega’s Jeff Atkinson & Sail Biomedicines’ Jim Nolan share their perspectives on the health of the linear mRNA and circRNA outsourcing sector.
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Having worked on both the innovator and CDMO sides of the industry, Advancing RNA LIVE panelist Khaled Yamout outlines where he sees the greatest weaknesses in these critical sponsor-CDMO partnerships and offers guidance.
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Explore how early-stage companies can implement design space and analytical principles that will help us determine the biggest differences between constructs and how close we may be to a true “platform process.”
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As the panelists of this Advancing RNA LIVE discussion argue, there are several big limitations we face in implementing QBD today for RNA development.
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In this clip from a recent Advancing RNA LIVE event, panelists address a question about where the best opportunities exist upstream and/or downstream to increase mRNA manufacturing efficiencies.
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Advancing RNA LIVE panelist Jim Nolan of Sail Biomedicines fills us in on the extent to which we can rely on the linear mRNA analytical foundations established today.
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In this clip, Advancing RNA LIVE, panelists, share their perspectives on how advancements in RNA analytical development are complementing and informing process development efforts for linear mRNA.
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Linear mRNA analytical development has been rapidly advancing in the past few years and this panel discussion explores some of the biggest changes we’ve seen in the linear mRNA analytical paradigm.
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Three regulatory experts share the topics on which they hope to see further agency clarification in the near-term to help mRNA products make meaningful progress toward/through the clinic.
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Explore two functional areas that Advancing RNA panelists consider most essential to telling an RNA product’s “story” thoroughly to regulators.
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The Advancing RNA Live panelists share several inconsistencies they’ve encountered working with global regulators, as well as on which aspects they’re seeing regulatory agencies applying greater scrutiny in mRNA development today.
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Though the mRNA industry is excited about the possibilities of the FDA’s yet-to-be-clarified “Platform Provision,” a recent discussion between regulators suggests differences in opinion are emerging.
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Experts from this Advancing RNA Live panel discuss the results from a poll question revealing the top three areas RNA industry experts would be most interested in seeing additional mRNA-specific guidance from regulatory agencies.
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The experts on this Advancing RNA Live panel share their takeaways from several audience poll questions revealing which RNA molecules are getting the lion’s share of attention/development today.
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Nutcracker Therapeutics’ Oreanna Thomas shares her takeaways from a pre-IND meeting for one of the company’s mRNA therapeutic candidates.
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ReciBioPharm’s Melanie Cerullo shares where mRNA needs to “catch up” to its oligonucleotide “cousin” molecules and where regulatory differences may be emerging between modalities.
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This Advancing RNA panel of experts sees a couple of important questions those striving to make RNA therapeutics will find themselves confronting when collaborating with regulators.
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Explore the behind-the-scenes best practices of the company implemented that led to the approval of the world’s first saRNA vaccine in Japan.
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Expert panelists provide commentary on specific steps considered to be challenging in mRNA therapeutic development as well as new technologies in mRNA therapeutic development.
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Novel excipients or active substances? In this segment of Risk Reduction In mRNA Therapeutic Development, we address the debate and discuss LNP-related inflammatory response concerns.
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What challenges do you consider the most formidable in your own mRNA therapeutic development environments?
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Learn more about LNP complexity, fragility, and other lipid nanoparticle considerations in this segment from the Bioprocess Online Live digital event Risk Reduction In mRNA Therapeutic Development.
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Safety of mRNA vaccines and therapeutics is paramount to approval, but process dependent. Listen to this discussion which addresses safety risks and how mRNA developers are tackling the challenges.
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In this segment from the Bioprocess Online Live digital event Risk Reduction In mRNA Therapeutic Development, hundreds of audience members tell us what forms of vaccine and therapeutics they’re developing.
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Listen in on a discussion surrounding questions about chromatography and column-free processes in the development of mRNA vaccines and therapeutics.
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Listen in on a discussion reviewing key drivers behind the flurry of activity in mRNA therapeutic development and begin to address the rate-limiting risks to mRNA therapeutic development.
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Learn more about CustomBiotech's mRNA raw materials pipeline and strict quality criteria that are designed to support the success of our customers’ manufacturing scale-up and regulatory drug approval.