Bionova Scientific, Inc.
Bionova Scientific is a biologics CDMO focused on developing and manufacturing recombinant protein products using mammalian cell culture processes. Bionova’s founders believed that the best way to build a scientific services business was to bring together top scientific talent, arm them with the best available tools, and set them loose in an agile, energized culture focused on solving difficult client problems. We have built a great relationship with Great Point and are excited to have them as partners, as we strive to better serve our customers in the Bay Area and around the world. By building a company that could tackle the toughest biopharma challenges, Bionova we would position itself to excel on everyday projects too. Today, that vision lives in a world-class team and facility that delivers unmatched CDMO services for our clients.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Pharmaceuticals
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
This company also provides solutions for other industrial applications.
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About Us
Bionova is built on a three-part strategy
- Talent : Bionova is dedicated to attracting and developing biopharmaceutical experts with extensive technical experience and deep industry knowledge across all stages of biopharmaceutical drug development, analytical sciences, quality and cGMP manufacturing.
- Technology & Infrastructure : Bionova’s nearly 80,000 sq. ft. of CDMO facilities are equipped with an ever-growing list of state-of-the-art instruments and equipment. Our expanded capabilities include cGMP biologics manufacturing, which opened in October 2021.
- Culture : Bionova intentionally hires professionals who are passionate about their science and about serving clients. Once on board, they are encouraged to make client success the highest priority.
Our History
Bionova was founded by a team of scientists who saw a better way to deliver biologics process development and process characterization services. They were committed to building a business that clients could trust and rely upon. They also wanted to attract great scientific talent, give them great tools to work with, and build a workplace where people were empowered and energized to do great work and to share mutual respect for each other. They had spent time at big companies and were committed to not let meetings and bureaucracy slow them down.
Since those early days, Bionova has been on a transformative journey. Thanks to the contributions of our growing team of customer-focused specialists, we are now a full-service biologics CDMO and recently opened a state-of-the-art commercial-ready GMP manufacturing facility. With the support of its private equity partner, Great Point Partners, Bionova will launch GMP operations in November 2021. The company has already announced multiple GMP clinical supply contracts, months ahead of the planned completion, a strong indicator of the trust that clients feel toward Bionova.
A major priority for Bionova’s leadership team continues to be nurturing a culture focused on caring for the best interest of the client’s programs while also ensuring scientific excellence. The flexible, boutique-like environment allows the Bionova team to make each client a priority. This client-first approach has enabled the company to cultivate a network of clients loyal to Bionova, resulting continued growth.
Quality at Bionova
Bionova’s Quality Principles enable sound, timely decision making that supports our clients’ needs and conform with regulatory guidelines and requirements.
We are always mindful that speed is critical for our clients, and we want Quality to enhance speed. At Bionova, we work with our scientific, engineering and operations colleagues to ensure intelligent risk management. We right-size the oversight, approach to match the client’s specific situation, resulting in faster and better outcomes.
We provide full validation support for client processes and products, including any specialized equipment, instruments, or conditions.
Our quality specialists have deep technical expertise to actively participate with Bionova’s functional groups. Our ability to advise on quality issues with detailed understanding of technical and scientific tradeoffs is an important contributor to Bionova’s organizational agility.
Our Quality team brings extensive manufacturing experience to Bionova. We know manufacturing and process development, so when we spend time in the plant, we are advising, analyzing, and deciding. Because our systems are largely paperless, we spend our time on the floor adding value for the client.
The Bionova Quality team engages with client projects at the earliest stage. Starting at the proposal process and assessing the scope of work so we can design the appropriate level of quality management into each project. By understanding client needs upfront (e.g., EMA vs. FDA, Early Stage vs. Late Stage) we can apply suitable quality requirements and ensure the most efficient approach.
Bionova understands that our clients want frequent and secure access to information about assays, batches, and materials. Bionova Technical teams provide daily readouts on cell culture and purification and Bionova Quality teams provide access to electronic records so clients can comment and revise directly in our system.
Our electronic quality management systems enable direct client access for transparency with security.
Why Bionova?
When evaluating biologics CDMO’s, every biopharmaceutical firm will base their decision on unique criteria. We believe the core decision is typically made around technical capabilities, capacity and cultural fit. Since our founding in 2014, Bionova has established a track-record of exceeding customer expectations: in our ability to deliver solutions to difficult technical challenges and in our focus on doing right by the customer at every turn.
When considering Bionova, we hope you will consider these three attributes that we believe form the core of our success:
Our founders were scientists with deep experience in cell line development, process development and GMP manufacturing. They believed it was essential to build Bionova around a team of similarly minded scientist and engineers. If we were to become a go-to resource for biopharma companies facing challenges, we would need to staff the company with the “best-and-the-brightest” in every role. As we have grown and expanded our capabilities, this guiding principle has remained a constant.
Great scientists and engineers require great tools to do their work. In a rapidly evolving field like biopharmaceuticals, this often means investing in the latest technologies to help clients break through previously impenetrable barriers. It also means creating infrastructure at a scale that can keep complex, time-sensitive programs moving forward at all times. We hope you’ll plan a visit to Bionova’s headquarters, where you will find a biologics development and manufacturing facility that equals companies many times our size.
Bionova intentionally hires professionals who are passionate about their science and about serving clients. Once on board, they are encouraged to make client success the highest priority. As proud as we are of our scientific strength and state-of-the-art facility, the thing that makes us most proud is hearing customers rave about how our great team has gone above and beyond to meet or exceed their expectations. We know our success depends on their success, and clients see that we really embrace that.
We look forward to hearing from you soon to learn how Bionova might help your organization move forward!