Repligen Selects Purolite Life Sciences as Commercial Partner for New High Performance Ligand
WALTHAM, Mass., June 28, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Repligen Corporation (NASDAQ:RGEN), a life sciences company focused on bioprocessing technology leadership, today announced it has entered into an agreement with Purolite Life Sciences to supply its next-generation Protein A ligand, NGL-Impact™ A, which will be commercialized by Purolite Life Sciences using their novel Praesto® agarose jetting base bead technology. Repligen is a longtime market leader in Protein A, with two facilities that produce the majority of the global Protein A ligand demand to biopharmaceutical customers worldwide. NGL-Impact™ A was developed as part of Repligen’s collaboration with Navigo Proteins GmbH. This new ligand has outstanding performance attributes when immobilized on jetted agarose bead technology, with ultra-high binding capacities and excellent alkaline stability. These attributes are important in providing improved monoclonal antibody capture to handle increased upstream product titres, and in