
PharmiWeb Today Story
£0.5M investment in mass spectrometry support accelerates biologics development and approval
Craigavon, Northern Ireland – 26 January 2021 – Almac Sciences, a member of the Almac Group, has announced additional expansion of its biologics testing laboratory with significant investment in mass spectrometry equipment.
The new high-resolution mass spectrometer has been installed at Almac’s global headquarters, located in Northern Ireland, and will support its biologics offering for the analysis of peptides, proteins, glycoproteins and antibody products. This adds to the existing industry support at its new biologic testing laboratory based in Athlone, Ireland, announced just three months ago, which supports QC release and characterisation of biologics.
The £500,000 investment in a Thermo Orbitrap LC-MS instrument substantially increases the company’s capabilities in solving biologic analytical challenges and underlines Almac’s commitment to providing the latest in cutting-edge analytical solutions, equipment and facilities for its global client base. The instrument is capable of offering a complete analysis package to cGMP including amino acid sequencing, peptide mapping, disulfide bridge analysis using MS and MS/MS, glycosylation analysis, identification of post-translational modifications e.g. acetylation, phosphorylation in addition to biomarker discovery.
With this additional service, clients will benefit from an extended range of mass spectrometry services including the quantitation of genotoxic impurities, structure elucidation, isotopic purity determinations…
Read More...
Articles

Clinical trials in the post Brexit Europe
27-Aug-2020

Preventative medicine
26-Aug-2020
Events

-
asiaPLX 1 Singapore Marketplace for Pharma Busines…
21-Feb-2022 - 22-Feb-2022 -
2nd Euro Diabetes and Endocrinology Congress
06-Dec-2021 - 07-Dec-2021 -
Infectious and Chronic Diseases Congress
22-Nov-2021 - 23-Nov-2021 -
Introduction to Clinical Research
17-Nov-2021 - 17-Nov-2021 -
Reuters Events' Total Health 2021
16-Nov-2021 - 17-Nov-2021 -
Clinical Statistics for Non-Statisticians: Everyth…
02-Nov-2021 - 02-Nov-2021
News

-
Siemens Healthineers AG: Q1 results significantly…
26-Jan-2021 -
BenchSci Listed as Best Workplace™ for Startups in…
26-Jan-2021 -
PharmiWeb.Jobs Welcomes Syneos Health Germany
26-Jan-2021 -
North America and Europe Artificial Pancreas Syste…
26-Jan-2021 -
Wound Debridement Products Market Outlook Highligh…
26-Jan-2021 -
Oxytocic Pharmaceuticals Market To Witness Huge Ga…
26-Jan-2021