Microbix Biosystems Inc.

$249,500.00 CAD

≈ 3 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2018-2019
Agreement period
September 3, 2018 – February 28, 2022
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2018-2019-Q3-914177

Published purpose

Microbix has recently increased its production capacity of Rubella product and reduced manufacturing costs by developing and implementing a new, automated bioreactor production platform for production of Rubella virus, its largest and fasted growing product line. Customers around the world, have provided good feedback and have begun transition of their regulated medical devices to use Microbix’ bioreactor product. As a consequence of this customer demand, Microbix will initiate a new project to debottleneck and streamline the purification process: to reduce process steps, increase step automation and to introduce new process control test methodologies.

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