A novel single-use chromatography platform enabling cost-efficient manufacturing to support the growing global demand for affordable biologics.
A new single-use (per batch) chromatography platform employs traditional, proven chemistries in an inventive hydrogel polymer membrane format that enables the next generation bioprocessing paradigm. The experimental Protein A membrane, featuring a 10-fold improvement in productivity over resin columns and high selectivity (i.e. 3 LRV HCP), is combined with high performance membranes with mixed mode and ion exchange modalities for a fully single-use membrane-based purification process. The membrane columns show protein capacities similar or superior to reference resins in bind and elute, and up to 7 LRV clearance of MVM at 20kg/L in flow through mode. A membrane-based process allows a holistic process strategy involving small footprint, high throughput processing by means of a rapid multi-cycling capture step (up to 100 cycles per batch) and high capacity flow through polishing. This single-use (per batch) platform results in simple, compact, flexible, yet robust and safe downstream operations for cost-efficient manufacturing to support the growing demand for affordable biologics.
In this webinar, you will learn about:
• Advantages of a fully single-use membrane-based purification processes
• High capacity flow through polishing with an inventive membrane adsorber combining the best of resins (DBC) and membranes (30x of flow rate)
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High Productivity Membrane Chromatography: Enabling the Next Generation Bioprocessing Paradigm
1. Merck KGaA
Darmstadt, Germany
Renaud Jacquemart, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist
Director Vaccines Process Sciences
Enabling the next generation bioprocessing paradigm
High productivity membrane
chromatography
2. 2
The life science business of
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
operates as MilliporeSigma
in the U.S. and Canada.
4. Next Generation
Processing
Any technology, expendable, service, or system which
significantly changes the existing monoclonal
antibody manufacturing template to deliver:
Speed
Flexibility
Quality
Cost4
5. Performance Drivers
Flexibility
Reduce product change-
over time by 90%
Speed
Reduce facility
construction, mAb
production and product
release times
Cost
90% reduction in cost to
manufacture and capital
expenditure
Quality
Increased robustness
and reliability
BioPhorum Operations Group (BPOG) Technology Roadmap
The Industry Requires Step Change in Performance
Process Analytics
Process
Intensification
Single Use
Enablers
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6. Driver Metric Current State 5-yr target 10-yr target
Flexibility
Facility utilization <70% >85% >95%
Product changeover time 3 days <18 hours <8 hours
Time to reconfigure suite
for new process
>2 weeks <1 week <2 days
Speed
Facility build speed 3 years 2 years 1 year
Time to make product 4-6 months 2 months 1 month
Quality
Cost of quality
>10% of operating
cost
10% of operating
cost
2% of operating
cost
Inventory cover 3-6 months 2 months 2 weeks
Cost
Total cost to supply $100/g $50/g $10/g
Cost of facility
construction
$500M+ $100M $50M
From the 2017 BioPhorum Operations Group (BPOG) Technology Roadmap (Page 18, Table 1)
Next Generation Processing
Tough Goals: Reduce Facility Cost and mAb CoGs
New technologies & processing paradigms required6
7. Facilities are the biggest Cost Driver… but they depend on the Process!
Holistic Approach to Biomanufacturing
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Total cost of
ownership NPC
(including facility
construction costs,
capital, and operating
costs with
depreciation) for mAb
production at 2000 L
scale with fed-batch
process (3 g/L titer)
▪ Facility cost was 40% of cost of ownership
▪ Implementation of single-use technologies reduced Net Product Cost by 40%
Pralong & Pollard (2017)
Single-Use Technology
Implementation For
Biologics and Vaccines
Production, p.724
Cost drivers in traditional facilities
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8. Incentives, Challenges and Pathways
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Low CoGs needed to
The challenge?
Supply developing countries with affordable biologics
Reach emerging markets profitably
Improve competitiveness and long-term sustainability
Enable business model for new biologics and novel therapies
(political pressure on pricing, cost is a real factor)
Great progress in USP (high titer, perfusion reactors)
DSP still done the traditional way: slow, low yield, large
expensive units
USP & DSP not integrated
Facilities are large, expensive, not flexible and long lead
time to construct
Holistic Approach to Biomanufacturing
Better Processes = Smaller Facilities = Lower Costs
9. Consensus in the Industry?
Next Generation Processing is enabled by High Productivity
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10. A High Productivity DSP that matches Intensified USP
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What is our Proposal?
TRADITIONAL APPROACH
• Resin columns need oversizing to
match USP productivity
Large footprint, not flexible,
labor/quality-intensive
• High CAPEX & OPEX
Needs multi-batch amortization
NEW PARADIGM
• High Productivity DSP
• Increased flexibility at lower CapEx
• Cost efficient solution to match high
USP productivity
11. What is our Proposal?
High Productivity Membrane Chromatography
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High Productivity
Membrane
Chromatography
• High throughput
achieved without
over-sizing
• Utilization of
rapid multi-
cycling to reduce
media volume
• No amortization
needed
• Single use per batch bind & elute Protein A
• Right-sized flow-through salt-tolerant CEX with HIC modality
• High loading flow-through salt-tolerant AEX
Bioreactor
CEX AEX
Primary
separation
Capture
Intermediate /
polishing
VF UF/DF
Protein AFiltration
14. High Productivity Chromatography Membrane
High Binding & Short Residence Time
Natrix® HD membrane
1. Reinforcing mesh “skeleton”
• Provides mechanical strength & durability to composite membrane
• Polypropylene – good chemical stability
2. Porous polymer gel
• 3D macroporous structure provides:
• A large surface area that contains a high density of protein binding groups
• Interconnected pores that provide convective flow channels
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15. Natrix® Membranes Flow and Binding Dynamics (1/2)
Combining the best of Resin & Membrane
Natrix® Membranes
o Single use
o Dominated by advective flow
o High binding capacity for
proteins, virus and DNA
o High flow rates
Conventional Column
Chromatography
Natrix® Advective
Chromatography
Resins
o High protein binding capacity
o Limited capacity for large
targets (virus, DNA)
o Diffusional limitations
o Low flow rates
Conventional Membranes
o Single use
o High flow rates
o Limited surface area
o Low binding capacity
Conventional Membrane
Adsorber Chromatography
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16. Natrix® Membranes Flow and Binding Dynamics (2/2)
Binding Capacity maintained over wide Residence Time range (1.2s - 12s)
Membrane: maximum 10% loading capacity loss for 10x faster loading
Resin: loading capacity decreased by 80% when residence time decreased by 4x (86s to 21s)
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20
40
60
80
100
120
0 5 10 15
NormalizedLoadingcapacity%
Residence Time (seconds)
Membrane Resin
Natrix® membranes are flow rate insensitive
Operate at 6s residence time or less with no capacity loss
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17. Natrix® Affinity Membranes
Composition & Properties
NatriPur™ HD-A: high productivity Protein A [NOT YET COMMERCIAL]
• Developed for rapid multi-cycling Bind & Elute operation
• Productivity (g mAb/h.L) 30-fold higher than Protein A resins
• Demonstrated for 20+ mAbs
• Single-use per batch
• Caustic stable
• Reactive membrane platform can accommodate multiple types of ligands
• Demonstrated for virus and recombinant proteins purification
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18. Natrix® Ion Exchange Membranes
Composition & Properties
NatriPur™ HD-Sb: salt-tolerant CEX with HIC modality [NOT YET COMMERCIAL]
• CEX group – Sulfonic acid
• HIC group – t-Butyl
• High binding capacity and salt tolerance
Flexible operating conditions
• Caustic stable (1M NaOH)
• Autoclavable
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19. Natrix® Ion Exchange Membranes
Composition & Properties
NatriFlo® HD-Q: salt-tolerant AEX [COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE]
• AEX group – Quaternary amine
• High binding capacity
• Buffers and salt tolerance
Flexible operating conditions
• Caustic stable (1M NaOH +2M NaCl)
• Autoclavable (Gamma-stable product in development)
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22. New template enabled by Natrix®
membrane technologies
Traditional mAb process template
Natrix® Membranes
Towards The New Paradigm
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23. Towards The New Paradigm
Natrix® Membranes Unlock A New Way Of Processing: Case Studies
Enabling fully single-use process and true flexible facilities
Rapid multi-cycling, right-sizing and full utilization of media life in 1 batch
Designed for flow-through operation to further increase productivity
Modular and Flexible: can be scaled out rather than scaled up
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2
3
4
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24. Towards The New Paradigm
Natrix® Membranes Unlock A New Way Of Processing: Case Studies
Enabling fully single-use process and true flexible facilities
Rapid multi-cycling, right-sizing and full utilization of media life in 1 batch
Designed for Flow-Through operation to further increase productivity
Modular and Flexible: can be scaled out rather than scaled up
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2
3
4
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Rethink Protein A
Options exist to replace Protein A…
BUT constraints on process
development time and the
need for a robust
manufacturing are strong
incentives to keep but
rethink Protein A
Enabling Fully Single-Use Processes (1/3)
26. HCP clearance for Protein A membrane comparable to reference resins
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Enabling Fully Single-Use Processes (2/3)
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• NatriPur™ HD-Sb & NatriFlo® HD-Q provide state-of-the-art chromatography performance and are single use
• All other unit operations are already single use
• HD-A Capture is the missing link
• Once implemented: all benefits of flexibility will be unlocked
Enabling Fully Single-Use Processes (3/3)
True fully flexible facilities become reality…
BUT how to handle chromatography cost?
Bioreactor
HD-Sb HD-Q
Primary
separation
Capture
Intermediate /
polishing
VF UF/DF
HD-AFiltration
28. Towards The New Paradigm
Natrix® Membranes Unlock A New Way Of Processing: Case Studies
Enabling fully single-use process and true fully flexible facilities
Rapid multi-cycling, right-sizing and full utilization of media life in 1 batch
Designed for Flow-Through operation to further increase productivity
Modular and Flexible: can be scaled out rather than scaled up
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2
3
4
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29. Cycling Study mAb 8: 50 cycles @ 20 g/L Load
Avg Leached ProA <2ppm
Avg Delta Column Pressure <2psi
Media life fully utilized within a batch improves economics
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High Productivity Enables Rapid Multi-Cycling
& Right-Sizing (1/4)
30. High Productivity Enables Rapid Multi-Cycling
& Right-Sizing (2/4)
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Up to 5kg mAb produced over 10 days
Perfusion bioreactor
• 100 L
• 2 volumes/day
• Titer: 2.5 g/L
Biosimilar for developing country
• Cost must be low
CV: 23.9L
BC: 35 g/L
CV: 1.2L
BC: 35 g/L
MV: 0.5L
BC: 45 g/L
High flow rate to match
perfusion productivity
BUT too expensive with
long and uncertain
amortization
Expend full life of media/batch
cost efficient
BUT too slow to match
perfusion rate
Meets perfusion rate with no need to oversize
Rapid Multi-Cycling
• Expend full life of media/batch
Cost Efficient
Traditional, large column approach
Residence time (sec): 240
Cycle time (min): 180
Hours per day: 3h every 2 days
Cycles over 10 days: 5
Cost-efficient resin column
Residence time (sec): 240
Cycle time (min): 180
Hours per day: 28.4
Cycles over 10 days: 110
Right-sized membrane column
Residence time (sec): 6
Cycle time (min): 12
Hours per day: 4.5
Cycles over 10 days: 200
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Daily
purification train
matching perfusion
flow rate
MV: 0.5L
Load 45g/L
20 cycles
2.5 hours
95%
yield
90%
yield
98%
yield
HD-Sb
Polish
HD-Q
Polish
HD-A
Capture
MV: 0.5L
Load 300g/L
3 cycles
1.5 hour
MV: 0.03L
Load:12500gg/L
1 cycle
3.5 hours
Adapted from Jacquemart et al., CSBJ, 2016
4 suites in a 2,000 m2 pod-based micro-facility costing <€20M 500 kg mAb purified annually!
High Productivity Enables Rapid Multi-Cycling
& Right-Sizing (3/4)
CoGs <$50/g compatible with biosimilar markets in developing
countries enabled by right-sizing and rapid multi-cycling
Right-sized high
productivity Protein A
membrane capture
(400 g/h•L-media)
(30X resin productivity)
Straight-Through
Processing in subsequent
high throughput DSP steps
4.5 kg purified for every
batch (10 days) in 20 ft2
of GMP suite.
32. Benoit Mothes (Sanofi)
Fully automated, high productivity DSP
Multi-unit operation system with 3 types of Natrix®
membranes
• Consistent performance (100 cycles) with & without
sanitization every cycle
• Sanitization not required since columns are disposable?
Source: “ASAP: Toward a Fully Disposable Continuous Process”, Mothes et al., BPI
Conference 2014
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Adrian Gospodarek (MSD)
First demonstrations of continuous multi-
membrane chromatography
SMB multi-column system with 5 Natrix® test cells
• 91 cycles
• Load: 30 g/L @ 4 sec RT
• Avg yield: 87%
• Avg HCP reduction: 4.1 LRV
• DNA in eluate: <1 ppm
Source: “High Capacity Protein A Membranes for mAb Capture: An Alternative to
Column Chromatography”, Gospodarek et al., 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting
Continuous purification platforms further optimize productivity
High Productivity Enables Rapid Multi-Cycling
& Right-Sizing (4/4)
33. Towards The New Paradigm
Natrix® Membranes Unlock A New Way Of Processing: Case Studies
Enabling fully single-use process and true fully flexible facilities
Rapid multi-cycling, right-sizing and full utilization of media life in 1 batch
Designed for Flow-Through operation to further increase productivity
Modular and Flexible: can be scaled out rather than scaled up
1
2
3
4
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Designed for Flow-Through Operation
To further Increase Productivity (1/3)
HCP = 247 ppm
Aggregates = 10.35%
Yield = 93%
HCP = 47 ppm
Aggregates = 0.49%
Yield = 93%
HCP = 3 ppm
Aggregates = 0.42%
NatriPur™
HD-Sb
pH 5.5
10 mS/cm
Load: 300 g/L
NatriFlo®
HD-Q
pH 7.5
2 mS/cm
NatriPur™ HD-Sb:
optimized hold-up volume to
enable multi-cycling mode
(even in FT operations)
NatriFlo® HD-Q:
designed for single cycle,
extended load at high flow
rate and low pressure drop
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Designed for Flow-Through Operation
To further Increase Productivity (2/3)
HCP = 1123 ppm
Aggregates = 1.91%
Yield = 88%
HCP = 162 ppm
Aggregates = 0.75%
Yield = 96%
HCP = 26 ppm
Aggregates = 0.74%
NatriPur™
HD-Sb
pH 7.5
4 mS/cm
Load: 300 g/L
NatriFlo®
HD-Q
pH 7.5
4 mS/cm
2 flow through steps provide further optimization of media utilization and DSP time
Improved productivity and process economics
No feed adjustment between the flow-through
steps for simple, continuous operation
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36. Feed: ProA & CEX Purified mAb
• Titer: 10g/L
• HCP: 70 ppm
Condition: 25mM Tris, pH 7.5, 10ms/cm
NatriFlo® HD-Q FT pool achieves
• HCP <10ppm
• No detectable DNA
• 7 LRV MVM
• Great purification performance at very high loading capacity = Downsize the unit
• Performance maintained at high conductivity = Reduce operations & risks
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Designed for Flow-Through Operation
To further Increase Productivity (3/3)
37. Towards The New Paradigm
Natrix® Membranes Unlock A New Way Of Processing: Case Studies
Enabling fully single-use process and true fully flexible facilities
Rapid multi-cycling, right-sizing and full utilization of media life in 1 batch
Designed for Flow-Through operation to further increase productivity
Modular and Flexible: can be scaled out rather than scaled up
1
2
3
4
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38. • Combination of multi-cycling and modular units : only the
number of cycles and/or number of columns change
• No technical or regulatory scale up required
• Minimizes investment when risks are high (early phases)
• Maximizes PD efficiency when moving through late stages
• Scaling out enables seamless transition from early stage to
late stage / manufacturing
Modularity Enabled By Productivity38
SCALING OUTSCALING UP
Modular and Flexible
Can be Scaled Out rather than Scaled Up (1/2)
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800
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Phase 1
Batch size (g)
# of cycles
Batch processing
time (hrs)
Phase 2 Phase 3 Commercial
No change in unit operation: no process development or regulatory work
From bench to bedside: one size fits all!
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4000
80
8000
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80
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Modular and Flexible
Can be Scaled Out rather than Scaled Up (2/2)
2 4.9 5 5.1
42. Cost savings are confirmed even for large scale manufacturing
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Reproduced from Pollard et al.,
BPI, 2016
The BioSolve® model developed by MSD supports earlier conclusions
43. Natrix® High Productivity Membrane Chromatography
Enabling the Next Generation Bioprocessing Paradigm
1 Critical quality attributes comparable to reference resin
processes
2
Single use, high productivity chromatography enables
• Fully single-use, modular processes
• Unlocking true flexible facilities that promote better facility utilization
• Rapid multi-cycling, right-sizing, full utilization of media life in 1 batch
3 Cost-efficiency is achievable for both clinical and
commercial manufacturing by realizing a holistic strategy
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44. New paradigm enabled by Natrix®
membrane technologies
Traditional mab process template
The future