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Minaris Regenerative Medicine is proud to share current and past news and announcements from its over twenty years of experience. Please see below for our press releases and announcements.

*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, fomerly PCT or PCT Cell Therapy Services), apceth Biopharma GmbH, and Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. have been renamed Minaris Regenerative Medicine and are part of the Resonac Group.
January 29, 2019

Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions Completes Technology Transfer to Enable Manufacturing of MaxCyte’s CARMA™ Cell Therapy for Clinical Use

Allendale, NJ, United States, January 29, 2019 - Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions, LLC (HCATS) announced it has successfully completed the technology transfer and implementation of the manufacturing process and commenced manufacturing services for dosing of patients in MaxCyte, Inc.’s Phase I dose-escalation clinical trial of MCY-M11 in the United States. MaxCyte MCY-M11, its ...

November 16, 2018

apceth Biopharma GmbH Manufactures DCprime’s Cell-Based Cancer Vaccine for Phase II Clinical Study

Munich, Germany, November 16, 2018 - apceth Biopharma GmbH, an established contract manufacturing organization in the field of gene and cell therapy, has started supplying clinical batches of DCprime’s cell-based cancer vaccine DCP-001 to a phase II clinical study for the treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). AML is a haematological cancer characterized by high risk of relapse, even after ...

October 5, 2018

apceth to Manufacture First Potential One-Time Gene Therapy for Transfusion Depended β-thalassemia

Munich, Germany, Oct 5th, 2018 - apceth Biopharma GmbH, a leading company for the development and manufacturing of cell and gene therapeutics, congratulates its partner bluebird bio on the acceptance and validation of its market authorization application by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). bluebird bio has applied for market authorization of its investigational LentiGlobin™ gene therapy for ...

October 1, 2018

Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions Signs Three-Year Agreement with GSK

Allendale, NJ, United States, October 1, 2018 - Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions, LLC (HCATS) announced today that they have signed a three-year clinical manufacturing agreement with GSK, a science-led global healthcare company. Under the agreement, HCATS will manufacture GSK’s SPEAR T-cell receptor therapy targeting NY-ESO-1 for the US, Canadian and European trials. NY-ESO is ...

September 25, 2018

Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions and Rutgers University - New Brunswick Announce Collaboration on Graduate-Level Bioengineering Course

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions, LLC (HCATS), a U.S. subsidiary of Hitachi Chemical Co. Ltd. that engages in contract manufacturing and development of regenerative medicine products, and Rutgers University–New Brunswick’s School of Engineering today announced a collaboration to launch a graduate-level course, “Integrative Molecular and Cellular ...

September 24, 2018

Announcing Transition for the Role of Chief Operating Office of HCATS

After three years of operations leadership for Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions (HCATS), William (Bill) Monteith will be leaving HCATS with transition expected to complete by November 2018. Brian Hanifin will fill the role of Interim Head of Technical Operations for HCATS. Brian has 25+ years of extensive pharmaceutical experience leading internal company plants. He has been an ...

March 19, 2018

Hitachi Chemical Signed Agreement for Clinical Manufacturing of Regenerative Medicine with Daiichi Sankyo

March 19, 2018 - Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Hisashi Maruyama; hereinafter “Hitachi Chemical”) announces the signing of an agreement with Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; hereinafter “Daiichi Sankyo”) for clinical manufacturing*1 of Regenerative Medicine developed by Daiichi Sankyo for the Japanese market. Hitachi Chemical ...

March 13, 2018

SanBio Reaches Agreement on Manufacture of Regenerative Medicine Product SB623 with Hitachi Chemical

Tokyo, Japan, March 13, 2018—SanBio Group and Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. (Hitachi Chemical) jointly announced today that, through an agreement with Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions, LCC (HCATS; formerly PCT Cell Therapy Services, LLC), Hitachi Chemical’s U.S. subsidiary that engages in contract manufacturing and development of regenerative medicine products1, they will manufacture ...

February 13, 2018

Construction Begins to Expand PCT's Services: GMP Manufacturing Infrastructure and Cleanroom Capacity to Support Clients through Commercial Stage

We at Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions, LLC are excited to announce that construction on additional PCT GMP manufacturing infrastructure and cleanroom capacity has begun at our newly-leased 49,700 square foot facility in Allendale, New Jersey (“75 Commerce”) in addition to upgrades to our existing facility at 4 Pearl Court, Allendale (“4 Pearl Court”). The upgrades will allow us ...

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