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Managing the Cold Chain
06/10/2026
Accelerate Efficiency by Decoupling Collection from Manufacturing
For many cell therapy programs, there comes a point where the manufacturing schedule stops behaving like a schedule and starts behaving more like a coordinated hold on capacity, something that can only really be maximized when collection, clinic coordination, material movement, intake, and suite readiness all happen to line up tightly enough around fresh leukapheresis-derived starting material to keep the window intact.
Managing the Cold Chain
06/09/2026
How Operational Efficiency Shapes Late-Phase Manufacturability
For many advanced therapy programs, there’s a moment when the program looks like it should be able to scale cleanly, and it just... doesn’t. Not in an obvious way that can be recognized and addressed in the moment, but in the introduction of small measures of friction when the schedule doesn’t align the way it was intended to, or where time is introduced in places where it shouldn’t be.
Managing the Cold Chain
05/18/2026
Integrate Cryopreservation into the End-to-End Supply Chain
Early‑phase therapy developers rarely think about cryopreservation as a standalone decision. In practice, it sits between collection and manufacturing, shaped by how material moves, how it is documented, and how responsibility is transferred from one group to the next. Despite that reality, cryopreservation is often implemented as a discrete step, managed separately from the rest of the supply chain that supports development execution. That separation may feel manageable early on. It becomes harder to sustain as programs progress.
Managing the Cold Chain
05/12/2026
Why Risk Analysis and Lane Qualification Matter for Regulatory Confidence
As programs move from mid-phase into later development, expectations around compliance change in both scale and tone. Early filings may tolerate explanation, but later submissions expect evidence. Teams preparing for Phase II transitions, Phase III trials, or global commercialization begin to encounter a different level of scrutiny, where regulators are less interested in intent and more focused on whether processes behave consistently under real operating conditions.
Managing the Cold Chain
04/28/2026
A Conversation with Yashu Sarna, President of PDA West Coast Chapter
At this year’s PDA (Parenteral Drug Association) West Coast Chapter conference in Las Vegas, leaders across quality, manufacturing, and operations came together to discuss digital transformation and the evolving demands facing the biopharmaceutical industry. We spoke with Yashu Sarna, President of the PDA West Coast Chapter and Director of Business Development, Cryopreservation at Cryoport Systems, about what the conference revealed, how those insights align with what he’s seeing across the market, and where the industry appears to be heading next.
Managing the Cold Chain
04/21/2026
Validate Cryopreservation as a Defined Input, not a Variable
Most early‑stage cell therapy programs continue to rely on fresh starting material, particularly in pre‑clinical and Phase I development. That reliance is often driven by habit rather than data. Fresh workflows are familiar, but they also embed variability into the earliest experiments, where reproducibility is hardest to restore later. As development pressure increases, teams begin looking for ways to stabilize inputs without introducing new unknowns.
Managing the Cold Chain
04/21/2026
Accelerate Your Trials Without Losing Control With an End-to-End Supply Chain Model
As programs shift from Phase I to Phase II, the workload starts to overlap in new ways. Sample volumes increase as more sites operate in parallel, and activities that once occurred in sequence now run at the same time. The work itself is largely the same, but keeping it coordinated requires more time and attention.
Industry Insights
04/14/2026
Building Global Readiness: Key Takeaways from Matthew Frazzetta at Hope Is Not a Workflow
As cell and gene therapies continue to advance scientifically, operational readiness is increasingly determining whether those therapies reach patients at scale. During a presentation at Hope Is Not a Workflow, Matthew Frazzetta, Vice President of Global Accounts for BioServices at Cryoport Systems, addressed a question that is becoming impossible for the industry to ignore: How do we build a global, standardized, and scalable supply chain capable of supporting the next generation of advanced therapies?
Industry Insights
04/13/2026
What Will It Take to Move Cell Therapy Forward? Reflections from the Hope Is Not a Workflow Panel
At the recent Hope Is Not a Workflow event, industry leaders came together to tackle some of the most persistent questions facing cell and gene therapy today. During a panel, Dominic Clarke (VP, IntegriCell® Technical Operations, Cryoport Systems) joined the discussion to share his perspective on what is slowing adoption and what it will take to move the industry forward in a meaningful way.Categories
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