Lonza Biologics and Alexion Pharmaceuticals sign agreement for commercial manufacturing
"Lonza Biologics is extremely excited about this agreement with Alexion and appreciates the confidence Alexion has shown in Lonza by choosing us to provide market supply of eculizumab from our new large scale facility in Portsmouth, NH. We have been fortunate to have worked with Alexion on eculizumab from its early development to current clinical trial supply and look forward to continuing this collaboration," said Markus Gemuend, CEO of Lonza Group.
"We are pleased to conclude this very important agreement with one of the recognized leaders in the manufacture of antibodies," said David Keiser, President and Chief Operating Officer of Alexion. "We have collaborated with Lonza for several years now with respect to the production of eculizumab for use in our clinical trials and as we now gear our activities toward commercialization it was important to secure the manufacturing experience, expertise, state of the art facilities and capacity that Lonza is uniquely positioned to provide."
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