Proteintech opens new laboratory

ROSEMONT - Proteintech has completed construction of its new Good Manufacturing Practice-grade laboratory at the company's headquarters in Rosemont.

Proteintech manufactures antibodies and human protein for direct sale to scientists, The laboratory which will focus on the expansion of Proteintech's GMP-grade Humankine line of human cell line-derived growth factors and cytokines for use in the pharmaceutical industry. Humankine proteins, as authentic human cell-derived proteins, offer a solution to the growing need for effective and safe products for development and scaling of cell therapies.

"We are living in the golden age of medicine. For the first time in history, mankind has opened the doors to new worlds of cancer immunotherapy with antibodies and T cells, and even tissue regeneration using stem cells," says Proteintech CEO, Dr. Jason Li at the opening of the facility, "With the opening of our GMP facility, we at Proteintech are excited to explore these worlds alongside scientists and physicians."

The new facility has been designed to satisfy federal regulatory requirements to allow protein production to meet the growing needs of the pharmaceutical industry. The future use of the laboratory will also include development of antibodies into diagnostic kits and pharmaceutical drugs.