CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK - 5 September 2017 - GE Healthcare today introduced the first in its VIA Thaw series, the VIA Thaw CB1000 for thawing large volumes of cell therapies cryopreserved in cryo-bags. This range of innovative automated, dry thawing units provides users with control over the thawing of sensitive therapies, and addresses key challenges faced by cell therapy companies. Designed to overcome the multiple inconsistent elements in standard water bath thawing practice, the VIA Thaw series delivers a simple, reproducible and traceable recovery system that maintains cell viability to prevent loss of therapeutic effect.
With around 900 cell therapy clinical trials underway worldwide and a handful of products approved as treatments1, the emergence of cell therapies will potentially change the landscape of healthcare. However, maintaining cell potency throughout the manufacture and cryogenic cold chain (cryochain) of these treatments is a major challenge. Cell thawing is the final and ...
