MilliporeSigma opened its M Lab Collaboration Center in Shanghai. With a total lab size of approximately 10,000m², it’s the largest of the company’s nine centers worldwide.

The M Lab Collaboration Center offers customizable solutions to help advance drug development, including Pilot Scale and Process Development support labs that offer non-GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) lab space where pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturers can explore ideas, learn innovative techniques and work with the company’s scientists and engineers to solve critical process development and production challenges.

Customers can participate in product demonstrations, hands-on training, formal bioprocessing educational courses and experiments, as well as apply best practices and new approaches to develop, optimize and scale-up processes and simplify global technology transfer.

Customers will also be able to leverage MilliporeSigma’ Lab Management Software, Customized Cell Culture Media facility, and Solid Dose Formulation facility.

Additionally, the center will host a new BioReliance End-to-End Solutions GMP manufacturing facility offering contract development manufacturing organization services to customers in China and Asia-Pacific.