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Cell and gene therapy

Supply chain of advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs)

Tissue engineering and cell and gene therapies are in a state of constant development and pave the way for personalized medicine. Promising results from different fields reflect the paradigm change in healthcare toward tailor-made medication. A wide range of cellular products (known as ATMPs) are being developed with a view to curing life-threatening diseases, increasing quality of life, and preventing the serious side effects of conventional therapies.

Looking ahead, what starts as a small Phase 1 clinical trial today may go on to become a worldwide multicenter clinical trial and then a commercial product after several years. Patient well-being is the highest goal, combined with the wish to secure the highest quality of treatment in each case.

Taking regional differences and infrastructure limitations into account, logistics has a challenging, yet essential role to play in this. time:matters, an expert for Special Speed Logistics, understands the unique and sensitive nature of the starting material and ready-to-use ATMPs and offers vein-to-vein transport solutions. We act as your partner, converting our logistics expertise and your medical requirements into a customized ATMP supply chain.

Your advantages with time:matters

Service

  • 24/7 transport service and support, including weekends and holidays
  • Direct contact with partner airlines, apron staff, customs, and other authorities
  • Workflow tailored to customer SOPs
  • Customized logistics solutions for all parties involved in trials
  • Provision of temperature-controlled packaging incl. dry shippers

Reliability

  • Continuous monitoring of each individual shipment
  • Proactive notifications and tracking
  • Contingency plan for any irregularity
  • Zero tolerance policy for errors in the field of hematopoietic stem cells

Network

  • A comprehensive network plus several partners for European and worldwide transports, including pickup, delivery, and customs clearance.
  • As a Lufthansa Cargo subsidiary, we control the entire supply chain and are not limited by airport boundaries
  • “Do not x-ray” process for sensitive shipments at many airports

Cell & Gene transport stories

Customized cell and gene logistics from France to Canada

A France-based biomedical company required a secure and dependable solution for the transatlantic transport of their very fragile engineered iPSC-derived hepatocytes to Canada.

Getting a patient’s time-critical fresh apheresis cells from Atlanta, USA, to a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) facility in Nuremberg, Germany, within 18 hours

Fresh cells have only a limited shelf life outside of the human body. Hour after hour, even minute after minute, cells lose viability and fitness and form clumps, making manufacturing in a GMP facility impossible. In a clinical trial with fresh white blood cells as starting material, apheresis cells from regional hospitals could be delivered for manufacturing within a few hours. But how could overseas patients be served from the same GMP facility without changing the entire established set-up?

Innovation is driving pharma air cargo growth

Digitalisation, IATA CEIV Pharma certification, aircraft with digitally powered temperature control, advanced track & trace technology, and passive containers with 120hrs+ duration, is drastically changing the air cargo pharma supply chain while making it more reliable.

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