LumaCyte Expands into Europe Tackling Expansive Vaccine and Cell and Gene Therapy Markets
Summary
In the fall of 2019, LumaCyte reported that it was strengthening its infrastructure to support a growing customer base, with strong efforts being placed on servicing the expansive European market. The company has expanded its US headquarters, significantly increasing manufacturing and laboratory footprints, as well as completed the rigorous EU specific regulatory CE mark certification, indicating Radiance® conformity with EEA health and safety standards, which is a prerequisite for its instrument sale and use. “European biopharma and CDMO scientists often ask if we have representation in the region as they search for innovative tools to alleviate their production and QC bottlenecks; we can now finally say yes to this important question," says Dr. Sean Hart, LumaCyte’s Chief Executive Officer. In support of these efforts, LumaCyte has hired analytical instrumentation veteran, Christof Hasse, PhD to manage sales and service as part of its European expansion. Applications of LumaCytes label-free platform technology include viral infectivity for vaccine development and manufacturing, cell and gene therapy, cancer biology R&D, CAR T cell immunotherapy, adventitious agent testing (AAT), iPSCs, infectious disease, and pre-clinical drug discovery, in addition to multiple applications across the biomanufacturing sector for quality control and process optimization.