A bioprocess is a specific process that utilizes all or components of living cells (e.g. bacteria, enzymes, chloroplasts) to obtain desired products.
Cell therapy bioprocessing is a discipline that bridges the fields of cell therapy and bioprocessing (i.e. biopharmaceutical manufacturing) and is a subfield of bioprocess engineering. The goals of cell therapy bioprocessing are to establish reproducible and robust manufacturing processes for the production of therapeutic cells.
Commercially relevant bioprocesses:
-To produce products that maintain all quality standards of biopharmaceutical medicines.
-Supply therapeutic cells in both clinical and commercial quantities throughout the various stages of development (processes and manufacturing technologies must be scalable)
-Controlling the cost of goods (CoGs) of the final medicine product. This is critical to building the foundation for a commercially viable industry.