RNA Manufacturing Articles

  1. Can ICH Q14 Ease Regulatory Risks Around Impurity And Potency Testing? 5/21/2024

    Variability is inherent to biologics manufacturing. The trick is to catch it quickly and prevent product quality drift. That’s where the new ICH Q14 comes in.

  2. Multidisciplinary mRNA: What Can We Learn From Other CGTs? 5/20/2024

    Overall, there are four high-level best practices/mindsets I proposed during a recent presentation that I believe will be crucial for us to bring some talented RNA therapeutic role models to the forefront. But there is one best practice that I think is worth emphasizing more than the others.

  3. How Advanced PAT Aids Quality By Digital Design In mRNA Manufacturing 5/15/2024

    QbDD is an improvement over the QbD paradigm. Here, computational models are used to characterize, monitor, control, and improve manufacturing processes.

  4. 2 “Must-Haves” In mRNA CDMO Outsourcing Partnerships 5/13/2024

    In the final installment of this two-part series, Jain shares his assessment of the partnering landscape for mRNA therapeutic candidates. Though capacity has been a hot-button topic/need for other modalities in the ATMP space, his tips for evaluating CDMOs for mRNA therapeutics keep us aligned around the importance of capability and flexibility in outsourcing partnerships, especially when working with a nascent therapeutic modality.

  5. "A Particular Set Of Skills:" Outsourcing Considerations For mRNA Therapeutics 5/6/2024

    In the first of this two-part article series, Jain offers us his observations on the growth of the mRNA outsourcing sector, as well as the most important learnings he’s gleaned from engaging and contracting CDMOs in this space — particularly in these “earlier” days of the RNA therapeutics industry.

  6. Forum Notebook: Quick Takes From USP's mRNA Virtual Summit 5/1/2024

    The United States Pharmacopeia held a forum in February to exchange ideas about analytical methodologies and release testing. Here's a recap of the event.

  7. Assessing pDNA Purity For Cell & Gene Therapies 5/1/2024

    Plasmid DNA (pDNA) is used in gene therapies, vaccines, and RNA therapeutics. Along each step of development, we need to evaluate potential impurities.

  8. mRNA: The Fourth Pillar Of Pharmaceutical Innovation And Intervention 4/26/2024

    mRNA medicines represent the genesis of a fourth pillar of pharma innovation. While exciting, there are several critical challenges we must solve to strengthen this pillar, including stability and deliverability.

  9. “Holy T7 Polymerase, Batman!”: R&D Considerations For More Awe-Inspiring xRNA 4/24/2024

    It goes without saying we have some pretty ambitious therapeutic goals for linear mRNA and next-gen saRNA and circRNA. However, as my conversation with Koeris explored, we still have a lot of scientific and technical work/innovation ahead of us to make our RNA products “stronger” (in more ways than one).

  10. “Holy Deliverability, Batman!”: Next-Gen “Heroism” For The mRNA-[X] Space 4/19/2024

     

    In the first- of this two-part article, Koeris and I ford through some of the most prominent delivery-vehicle development pain-points that don’t get nearly as much conversation as they should today. Though Koeris did not sugarcoat his concerns with some of our current mRNA delivery/LNP development limitations, the questions he posed and considerations he offered give us clearer direction around where we must pursue more scientific “heroism” in the mRNA space.