Celonic is a global CDMO (Contract Development & Manufacturing Organization) for innovative biopharmaceuticals and is part of the private and independent family-owned company J.RETTENMAIER & Söhne (JRS Group), with sites in Basel, Switzerland (Headquarters) and Heidelberg, Germany. Celonic provides comprehensive development and manufacturing services for biotherapeutics, including cell line development, USP and DSP development, GMP and non-GMP manufacturing of biopharmaceutical drug substances. 


Celonic services covered:
2 INDUSTRY LEADING CELL EXPRESSION PLATFORMS:
CHOvolution™:
- Powered by Celonic's proprietary SEFEX™ technology
- Cell line based on CHO-K1 (non-genetically modiﬁed CHO) 
- Cell line adapted to serum-free EMA and FDA compliant media            
- Simpliﬁed licensing model (no royalties from sales) 
- High productivity (>7 g/l for mABs)

GEX®:
- Human cells for fully-human glycosylation
- Optimized for complex and sophisticated biopharmaceutical products
- Stable product quality over full run-time for R&D and/or GMP
- High productivity (up to 22g/l bioreactor volume for mAbs )

PROCESS DEVELOPMENT:
- State-of-art USP and DSP development 
- Cutting-edge, in-house, and high throughput bioanalytics 
- Robust and scalable

BIOMANUFACTURING CAPACITIES:
- Two facilities (Germany and Basel)
- Up to 2,000 L capacity batches in GMP and R&D setup 
- In-house analytics 
- Swissmedic GMP certiﬁed
- 20 years of optimizing perfusion technique with >100 GMP batches 


NEW BIOLOGICAL ENTITIES :
Celonic offers comprehensive approaches to enable clients to achieve commercial success, with a proven track record of developing breakthrough biologics and delivering GMP batches of ex. mABs, Growth Hormones, Fusion Proteins, and Blood Factors.

BIOSIMILARS :
Celonic offers ready-to-go Biosimilars (cell lines and cell pools—comprehensive analytics methods, comparability data, and development process) shaped on co-development and co-investment of next wave Biosimilars.



Pharmaceutical

Biotechnology

Celonic Group

Samanta Cimitan

Johanna Poecheim

Myriam Jenlin

Biserka Misev

Maria Ximena Gonzalez Oddera

Evan Gilman-Burke

Elisa Cristina Witt

Alex Villiger

Alberto Merli

Tobias Ostler

Anne-Kristin Stroppel

Mareike Weinschenk

Process Development Team

Human Resources

Operations and Development Team

Quality Assurance and Compliance

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Teams at Celonic Group

Process Development Team

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Operations and Development Team

Quality Assurance and Compliance

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Quality Assurance and Compliance

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