Batavia Bioservices Opens Laboratory Facility in Greater Boston Area
Batavia Bioservices has decided to launch a US facility in Woburn, Massachusetts.
Menzo Havenga, President and CEO of Batavia, said: “We have been growing more than four hundred percent in the past two years in the Netherlands and to keep up with customer demand we have decided to launch a facility in the Boston area.” Christopher Yallop, COO, adds: “We have chosen the greater Boston area due to its importance as a biotech cluster. Positioning ourselves here allows us to be close to our customers, which we deem extremely important in delivering on time and on budget.” Batavia Bioservices provides a one-stop shop from DNA cloning to Phase I/II clinical manufacturing for all major classes of biopharmaceuticals, including antibodies, proteins or vaccines.
The Woburn facility (± 5500 sq feet), located at Cummings Properties’ TradeCenter 128, contains multiple BSL-2 laboratories dedicated to specific tasks including Molecular Biology, mammalian cell line generation, protein production, protein purification or assay development. The company has already hired six employees for the new facility, with plans to hire four more by the end of this year. Joan Hilly, Director Cell Sciences, said: “It’s great that we have been able to quickly staff our facility with experts in their respective fields and in fact we have just started executing the first customer contracts on site!”
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