Welcome to the M Lab™ Collaboration Centers

The M Lab™ Collaboration Centers were set up as non-GMP spaces that pharmaceutical manufacturers could visit to explore both novel and proven processes and technologies, such as renowned core technologies, but also applications offered as part of our BioContinuum™ Platform for intensified, connected or continuous bioprocessing, without interrupting operations at their own plant. Engineers and scientists from both sides – the customer’s scientists and engineers and the experts at the M Lab™ Collaboration Center – can come together to test, optimize, intensify and troubleshoot processes. In addition, customers can visit the M Lab™ Collaboration Centers to learn best practices and techniques through our training programs.

The first M Lab™ Collaboration Center was set up in Asia because this is a rapidly growing market where there is a need for access to expert biomanufacturing knowledge and training. The population as a whole is demanding improved medicines and can afford new medicines, which has led to a boom in the biopharma market. There is a real need for new biologics and new technologies (intensified processes and single-use systems hold particular interest in Asia, as well as cell and gene therapies). Asian biopharma companies are rapidly trying to catch up with their western counterparts, but there is a shortage of experienced biopharma workers in the region. As a result, we are seeing a desire to train large numbers of people in a short space of time to get new facilities up and running.