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Fermentation Technology: Cooking Up New Therapeutics
June 24, 2011
•Article: Fermentation Technology: Cooking Up New Therapeutics
By SAFC
With a new state-of-the-art, cGMP fermentation facility in Jerusalem, SAFC is looking at new applications for what is viewed by many as a traditional technology. These applications include the synthesis of High Potency Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (HPAPIs) and therapeutic drugs.
Therapeutic drugs are substances used for health restoration in the treatment of disease, drawing on the utilization of microbial bio-factories. These bio-factories offer the pharmaceutical industry a reliable, powerful and economic source for therapeutics. In order to demonstrate the diversity of applications for bio-factories, Silvian Shama, Business Development Manager at the Jerusalem plant, looks at examples of therapeutic drugs that are primarily isolated through microbial fermentation.
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