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Minaris Regenerative Medicine’s leaders and experts are proud to share their knowledge and insight with the cell and gene therapy industry. Please review our current and past blog posts on topics of interest to this emerging industry.

*This page may include mention of our past company names as it reflects content distributed in the past. The former companies Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions (HCATS, formerly PCT or PCT Cell Therapy Services), apceth Biopharma GmBH are all now operations under the name Minaris Regenerative Medicine. Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. has been renamed Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd.

November 2, 2017

Robert Preti, PhD, Opens the 2017 Cell & Gene Meeting on the Mesa

At this year's Cell & Gene Meeting on the Mesa, Robert Preti, PhD, Chairman of the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine and President and CEO of Hitachi Chemical ...

May 18, 2016

Scaling Mountains in Cell Therapy Manufacturing

Growing up, many of us became familiar with the children’s song, ‘The Bear went Over the Mountain’. In this nursery rhyme (of sorts) a bear that succeeds in scaling a ...

March 14, 2016

Accelerating Our Vision of Global Commercial Cell Therapy Manufacturing

In November 2014, Japan passed a new regenerative medicine law, the upshot of which is that it enables therapeutic development sponsors to receive conditional marketing ...

October 1, 2015

What can Automation do for Your Cell Therapy?

Automation is not just a buzzword. Automation—the act of taking laborious, manual steps of cell therapy manufacturing and making them more efficient through elimination ...

September 26, 2015

PCT and Invetech experts lead webinar on Building Deliverable Cell Therapeutics for ISCT

ISCT hosted a webinar, titled "Building Deliverable Cell Therapeutics: A Methodical Approach to Manufacturing Development," featuring experts from PCT on October 22, ...

September 15, 2015

Spreading the Word on the Future of Commercial Cell Therapy Manufacturing– PCT Heads to IBC

At the end of this month, two of my colleagues and I have the opportunity to speak at the IBC Life Sciences Cell Therapy Bioprocessing and Commercialization Conference ...

July 11, 2014

PCT Experts Robert Shaw, Brian Hampson and Candice Betz Publish in BioProcessing Journal

PCT experts Robert Shaw, VP, Commercial Development; Brian Hampson, VP Manufacturing Development & Engineering, and Candice Betz, Director of QA/QC, have recently ...

May 23, 2012

PCT Celebrates 20 Years of ISCT

2012 marks the 20th anniversary of the formation of the International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT). ISCT was first conceived by a handful of pioneers at a ...

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