Cell Processing Facility
The Cell Processing Facility (CPF) contains 11 Class 10,000 manufacturing suites for preparing cell therapy products, in addition to centralized facilities for cell freezing and storage, flow cytometry, cold storage, cell separation and analysis. Therapeutic products are prepared according to Good Manufacturing (GMP) and Good Tissue Practices (GTP). The facility has prepared more than 4000 therapeutic cell therapy products.
The staff have experience in the preparation of:
- Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells
- Bone Marrow
- Peripheral Blood Stem Cells
- Umbilical Cord Blood
- Donor Leukocytes for immunotherapy
- Antigen-specific T cells directed to:
- Epstein-Barr virus
- Adenovirus
- Cytomegalovirus
- T cells bearing chimeric antigen receptors
- Pancreatic islets
- Cells for cardiac and brain injury repair
- Tumor vaccines
- Transduced and transfected cells
Products have been prepared for:
- CAGT protocols at the Methodist and Texas Children's hospitals in Houston
- The Production Assistance for Cellular Therapy program
- Biotechnology companies
- Investigators and clinicians at institutions worldwide
For additional information on the CPF contact Dr. Adrian Gee agee@bcm.edu
For contract manufacturing contact Myrlena Lee myrlenal@bcm.edu