Avantor opens life sciences research centre in New Jersey

Avantor, supplier of ultra-high-purity materials for customers across the life sciences and advanced technologies sectors, has opened a research centre in Bridgewater, New Jersey, USA.

The new facility offers nearly 27,000 square feet of laboratory space and features life sciences and advanced materials research tools, including cleanroom facilities, multiple mass spectrometers, specially constructed bioreactors, particle size analysers amongst others.

“The Bridgewater Innovation Center houses multiple research platforms to address issues such as facilitating recombinant protein engineering, protein expression, purification and trace materials characterisation,” said Brian Beyer, global director of R&D and bioprocessing applications. “We also have research platforms to investigate new excipient formulations to enhance API stability.”

Additionally, the facility will be used for research and development on electronics materials, with chemistries that require purity at the parts-per-trillion level.

“Our experience in controlling trace metals in chemistries for semiconductor applications will also contribute to our research into the impact of trace metals in biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical applications,” added Beyer.

“Similar to a contract research organization, we have broad capabilities to work with customers and serve as an agile extension of their own R&D departments,” said Ashish Kulkarni, Avantor’s executive vice president and chief technology officer. “Our goal is to help them drive collaborative development and product commercialization. We’re excited to use this facility to continue accelerating innovation for our global life sciences and advanced technologies customers.”

This centre will be housed in the New Jersey Center of Excellence, which is a 110-acre life sciences campus centrally located in the northeast US bioscience technology corridor.