RNA Manufacturing Articles

  1. MHRA Issues New Regulation On Modular And Point Of Care Manufacture Of ATMPs 3/11/2025

    The U.K.'s MHRA has issued a new regulation to allow for decentralized manufacturing of cell and gene therapies (advanced therapeutic medicinal products), describing modular and point of care manufacturing. It becomes effective July 23, 2025.

  2. The mRNA Industry's Three Wishes: Can CDMOs Play The "Genie?" 3/5/2025

    During the panel discussion last November, three CDMO execs shared the biggest scientific, regulatory, and technological complexities barring a “magical” solution to each biotech’s wishes. However, as each of the AMM panelists pointed out, there are short- and long-term technological innovations in the works that will be essential in advancing the manufacturing infrastructure for mRNA therapeutics in all their shapes, forms, and scales. 

  3. Understanding The New U.K. MHRA 'Draft Guideline On Individualised mRNA Cancer Immunotherapies' 3/5/2025

    The U.K.'s MHRA has released a new draft guideline outlining best practices for drug product design, CMC, and manufacturing of mRNA cancer immunotherapies using LNP delivery systems. The public comment period ends March 31.

  4. Courtroom Clash: Inside The High-Stakes World Of mRNA Patent Litigation 2/28/2025

    Here, Shores provides the “who’s who” and “what’s what” behind some of the hottest legal cases to hit the headlines in the mRNA space to-date, as well as why these cases are or could be significant to companies commercializing mRNA products in the future.

  5. 10 Ways To Speed Up CMC In Early-Stage Drug Product Development 2/21/2025

    The inherent complexity of living cell-based products, vector-based gene therapies, and highly sensitive analytical methods demands robust change management strategies.

  6. How Automation And AI Can Accelerate Clinical Research And Outbreak Response 2/18/2025

    Explore AI-driven automation and organ-on-a-chip technology to accelerate infectious disease research, enhancing assay efficiency, and improving vaccine and therapeutic development for emerging global health threats.

  7. Cultivating A Thriving mRNA Ecosystem: Key Initiatives & Future Directions 2/13/2025

    Overall, I felt that the following initiatives/talking points were demonstrative of the types of creativity and symbiosis that we will need much more of in the near and long-term to foster a healthy and fruitful RNA ecosystem. 

  8. IP Considerations For Early-Stage mRNA Therapeutics Development 2/7/2025

    Fortunately, navigating the patent landscape is hardly a “doomsday” scenario. But it is a challenge biotechs need to tackle early so they don’t end up too far down the path toward the clinic or in the clinic mired with delays and expensive litigation. Here, Rothwell Figg partner Dan Shores shares several strategies companies may choose to employ when facing a legal gray area to protect their products from patent litigation upon commercialization.

  9. A Primer On The RNA Patent Landscape 1/31/2025

    In the first- of this three-part article, Shores gives us an important primer on the RNA legal landscape as it stands today. As many of us are working on crafting the next generation of mRNA/RNA products and LNPs, I wanted to get his sense of how our continued scientific advancement is likely to impact the IP landscape in the long-term.

  10. mRNA Empowering Engineered In Vivo Cell Therapies 1/21/2025

    Recent advances in non-viral delivery technologies have enabled a first generation of genetically modified immune cells in vivo. Deploying these new approaches can address challenges with traditional ex vivo CAR-T cell therapy.