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Lonza ups ʟ-asparaginase for Servier

by Rick Mullin
August 14, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 31

 

Lonza is expanding microbial manufacturing with a new facility in Visp, Switzerland, that will serve the French drugmaker Servier and other customers. In particular, the facility will boost output of l-asparaginase, which Lonza has made for Servier since 2009. The enzyme is the basis of Servier’s chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a white blood cell cancer. The plant, scheduled to open by the end of 2022, should create 100 jobs, Lonza says.

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