Immutep Upscales Efti Manufacturing
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020
This follows the very encouraging interim results Immutep announced from its efti clinical trials at SITC (10 November 2020) and SABS (10 December 2020) and will be funded by the recent conversion of warrants on Immutep.
Key Points:
- This follows the very encouraging interim results Immutep announced from its efti clinical trials at SITC (10 November 2020) and SABS (10 December 2020) and will be funded by the recent conversion of warrants on Immutep.
- Immutep is planning to increase the efti manufacturing process from 200L to 2,000L capacity bioreactors at the WuXi Biologics manufacturing plant (Mashan site, Wuxi, China), with the major scale up steps taking place throughout 2021.
- Chris Chen, CEO of WuXi Biologics said: We are very pleased to be moving the scale up process forward for efti with Immutep.
- Marc Voigt, CEO of Immutep said: Following the very encouraging interim Overall Survival data announced last week from our largest clinical trial, AIPAC, we have activated our plans to upscale the manufacturing of efti to 2,000L single-use bioreactors to prepare for potential commercial manufacturing and potential registration trials in multiple indications.