{"id":86649,"date":"2019-01-13T17:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T01:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/fujifilm-plans-20m-u-s-facility-for-burgeoning-interest-in-stem-cell-treatments"},"modified":"2019-01-13T17:22:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T01:22:34","slug":"fujifilm-plans-20m-u-s-facility-for-burgeoning-interest-in-stem-cell-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/fujifilm-plans-20m-u-s-facility-for-burgeoning-interest-in-stem-cell-treatments","title":{"rendered":"Fujifilm plans $20M U.S. facility for burgeoning interest in stem cell treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fujifilm-plans-20m-u-s-facility-for-burgeoning-interest-in-stem-cell-treatments.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A host of companies are developing regenerative treatments that lean on stem cells. Seeing an opportunity, Japan\u2019s Fujifilm will build a U.S. stem cell manufacturing facility not only for its own efforts but also as a CDMO.<\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/fujifilmcdi.com\/news-events\/news-item\/fujifilm-cellular-dynamics-to-establish-new-facility-for-production-of-human-ips-cell-therapy-applications\/\">said<\/a> today that its Fujifilm Cellular Dynamics Inc. (FDCI) subsidiary will invest about $21 million to build a facility in Madison, Wisconsin, to \u201cindustrialize\u201d induced pluripotent stem cell technologies for its pipeline of regenerative drugs and to manufacture iPS cells for others. It expects the facility to be ready by March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo meet the growing demand for FCDI\u2019s iPS cell platform, the state-of-the-art production facility will have a flexible cell culturing design to serve production requirements of both industrial quantities of cells, and small, diverse batches,\u201d Seimi Satake, FCDI CEO, said in a statement. \u201cBy combining Fujifilm\u2019s experience gleaned from the intricate process of manufacturing photographic film along with FCDI\u2019s knowledge of cell reprogramming, genetic engineering and cell differentiation, the facility is poised to address the complex manufacturing processes of cell therapies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiercepharma.com\/pharma-asia\/fujifilm-plans-20m-u-s-facility-for-burgeoning-interest-stem-cell-treatments?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTTJZNE1XSTFZMkZoWlRJMyIsInQiOiJ3VVRndXdlZHF6V0dOdGY1N0lmc0xITHZRYW5LM3NYRFZuV1VcL3g3ZGJrSHQ1OUhISkdYbWZkbGlMakx3S09STnVPa0JuVHJpd1paeUFUN2NVXC9jSGsrbE5QK2N4YmR0amYzQ1dFUWozZGtyXC9XT0h4NXVPTHNvZWcyR3dFVU1jNyJ9&mrkid=65652030\">https:\/\/www.fiercepharma.com\/pharma-asia\/fujifilm-plans-20m-...d=65652030<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A host of companies are developing regenerative treatments that lean on stem cells. Seeing an opportunity, Japan\u2019s Fujifilm will build a U.S. stem cell manufacturing facility not only for its own efforts but also as a CDMO. The company said today that its Fujifilm Cellular Dynamics Inc. (FDCI) subsidiary will invest about $21 million to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}