Pandemic Response Strains Global Biopharmaceutical Reactor Capacity

Distress grows as manufacturers wait for suppliers to boost production. One idea: stretch inventories by qualifying single-use bioreactors for reuse.

COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing
Coronavirus vaccines get first priority for bioreactors • Source: Alamy

The supply of plastic bioreactor systems used in manufacturing a wide range of vaccines, monoclonal antibodies and cell and gene therapies has tightened so much during the COVID-19 pandemic that some manufacturers are considering desperate measures to maintain production.

Normally, manufacturers go through enough of these systems, which are designed to be used once and discarded, to produce 5 billion doses of vaccines per year, industry experts say

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