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Speed up time-to-clinic with flexible process development services

You're moving your therapeutic forward; Cytiva process development services can help you do it quickly. With global support and transparent teamwork, you stay in control while we help you reach your targets - quickly, confidently, and collaboratively.

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Your process challenges, our focus.

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Process development services for every stage of your journey

Our global network of process development service centers deliver integrated services across the full development lifecycle:

Nanomedicine process development

Formulate, develop your process, and analyze your product. Whatever your nanoparticle or payload, we can help.

Cell therapy process development

Design and refine scalable, closed-system processes for autologous and allogeneic cell therapies. Adherent or suspension cells. We focus on product quality, reproducibility, and tech transfer readiness.

Nucleic acid process development

Develop and scale robust high-yield mRNA manufacturing processes. Work with our experts on processes including plasmid DNA production, mRNA, and LNP.

Upstream and downstream bioprocess development

Let’s optimize one or more steps for efficiency, scalability, and robustness - from clone and media screening to purification and formulation.

Bioreactor and chromatography process modeling

Model your process changes using our mechanistic modeling software or our bioreactor scaler tool. Delivering faster data-driven development and scale-up with fewer lab experiments.

Proof-of-concept and process optimization

Check the feasibility of your upstream process quickly and refine or intensify your processes with our guidance and advanced analytics.

Process-specific validation

Support your sterile filter and single-use component choices and be ready for regulatory scrutiny.

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Learn about pDNA, mRNA, and LNP process services

From process development and scale-up for pDNA and mRNA, formulation screening and development for LNPs, analytical and bioassay services, to tech transfer and manufacturing, our team is ready to help you develop and optimize your nucleic acid processes.

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Why choose Cytiva process development services

Speed to milestone or clinic

Our streamlined workflows and parallel processing strategies help you meet critical milestones quickly.

Deep bioprocessing expertise

With over 35 years of experience and more than 100 scientists worldwide, we bring deep technical expertise to every project.

Support for any modality

From mAbs to cell therapies, mRNA to ADCs and more – we're here to help you in your next innovation.

Global reach, local support

With eight labs and nine training centers across North America, Europe, and Asia, we’re wherever you need us.

Customer-centric collaboration

We act as an extension of your team - offering full transparency, IP retention, and tailored solutions that align with your goals.

Sustainability leadership

We are committed to reducing Scope 3 emissions and supporting your sustainability goals. All Process Development Services labs are certified or in the process of certification with My Green Lab.

Global process experience to take you further

8

main sites worldwide

100+

customer process development projects per year

3100+

customer validation projects per year

100+

scientists around the world

Real-world results

Our Fast Trak™ process development team’s collaborations with biomanufacturers around the world have yielded remarkable results. Here are a few of their stories.

We helped a biosimilar customer quickly build a scalable purification step

Background: Biosimilar customer with aggressive timelines wanted to identify a CIEX resin to reduce aggregate levels; establish a scalable, cost-effective purification step.

Outcomes: Quick identification of suitable resin candidate, conditions identified fulfilling high binding capacity and sufficient impurity removal. Screening and optimization in 4 weeks.

High throughput screening experiment data showing static capacity binding

We helped convert a mAb molecule to a single-use platform

Background: A customer with aggressive timelines wanted to convert to single-use while scaling up from 10 L to 200 L with an ultimate target of 2000 L.

Outcomes: We reduced development timelines by 18 months, developed their mid-scale process in just five months, and transferred to local support for ongoing scale and capacity support.

A mAb molecule facility showcasing single-use equipment

We improved process yield to enable milestone completion

Background: A customer needed to improve low product recovery and purity to reach required level to product for Phase 1 clinical trials

Outcomes: We helped them double dynamic binding capacity of the resin used in capture, optimized the subsequent purification and polishing steps, and overall improved full process yield from 22-27% to 35-40%.

A data plot showing increasing yield from 60% to 90% and converting from gradient to step elution in polishing step

Let’s build your process together

Whether you need help with a single unit operation or the entire process, we’d love to discuss your project and how we can help.

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Accelerate your therapeutic process development

Helping you develop an efficient, scalable process so you can achieve milestones, get to clinic, and beyond – without wasting time.

Speed up time-to-clinic with flexible process development services

Your process challenges, our focus.

Move your science forward with confidence.

Key benefits:

Process development services for every stage of your journey

Nanomedicine process development

Cell therapy process development

Nucleic acid process development

Upstream and downstream bioprocess development

Bioreactor and chromatography process modeling

Proof-of-concept and process optimization

Process-specific validation

Ready to engage?

Learn about pDNA, mRNA, and LNP process services

Why choose Cytiva process development services

Speed to milestone or clinic

Deep bioprocessing expertise

Support for any modality

Global reach, local support

Customer-centric collaboration

Sustainability leadership

Global process experience to take you further

8

100+

3100+

100+

Real-world results

We helped a biosimilar customer quickly build a scalable purification step

We helped convert a mAb molecule to a single-use platform

We improved process yield to enable milestone completion

Let’s build your process together

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