Nomad Bioscience: new plant biotechnology company founded to focus on biomaterials and biopharmaceuticals
Nomad's plant-based protein expression technologies are being licensed from several companies for a broad range of products. NOMAD's proprietary technologies further improve the upstream part of the manufacturing process, but most importantly, they provide for novel downstream solutions that together with the in-licensed upstream components should result in a superior fully integrated manufacturing process for most of NOMAD's intended products. Another major focus of NOMAD are innovations that provide for full integration of the novel process components and novel product parts into existing industrial processes/products.
NOMAD's biomaterial pipeline consists of several selected product candidates, including plant-made cellulase enzymes (expected impact: up to 30% lower manufacturing cost of bioethanol), nanostructured polyadsorbents for affinity purification of biopharmaceuticals (low cost polyaffinity nanoparticles that replace expensive current affinity resins) and nanopatterned electrodes (batteries with improved electrochemical cycling properties and electrode capacity).
NOMAD's pharmaceutical portfolio is focused on three biosimilar versions of the proteins: Insulin, Etanercept (Enbrel®), and Trastuzumab (Herceptin®).
The founder of NOMAD is Prof. Dr. Yuri Gleba. Prior to founding NOMAD in 2008, Dr. Gleba co-founded two other biotech companies, Icon Genetics (Germany, USA) and Phytomedics (USA). He has been the CEO of Icon Genetics since its inception in 1999 and he has brought it to a successful exit in 2006 by selling the company to Bayer AG; he continues to manage it now.
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Topic world biopharmaceutical manufacturing
Biopharmaceutical production plays a crucial role in the development and manufacture of biologics, which are essential for the treatment of various serious diseases. Various key technologies and processes of the modern biopharmaceutical industry are used, such as cell cultures, fermentation processes and the purification of biological substances, which are necessary for the production of vaccines, monoclonal antibodies and other biological drugs.