BioLife Solutions, a leading supplier of class-defining bioproduction tools and services for the cell and gene therapy and broader biopharma markets, today announced an extended collaboration with Seattle Children’s Therapeutics, a venture at Seattle Children’s, bringing cutting edge, curative technologies and therapies to defeat pediatric cancer and other diseases that impact children. The collaboration will focus on establishing best practices in biopreservation and closed-system manufacturing with the introduction and integration of Sexton’s AF-500™ for closed-system processing for cell therapy manufacturing and viral vector delivery that will be used in Seattle Children’s Therapeutics new lentiviral vector manufacturing facility called VectorWorks. “This expanded collaboration is an exciting step for Seattle Children’s Therapeutics as we work towards developing closed-system processes for cell therapy manufacturing,” said Matt Selley, Director of GMP Manufacturing at Seattle Children’s. “Lentiviral vector manufacturing is a critical component of the cell production process.”
