NextPharma Technologies - US Subsidiary - Bioserv Corporation Announces Outsourcing Agreement With BioLife Solutions Inc.
Surrey, UK, 6th November 2007
NextPharma Technologies, a leading provider of pharmaceutical product development, contract manufacturing, cold chain and distribution outsourcing services, is pleased to announce that its US subsidiary Bioserv Corporation has entered in to an outsourcing agreement with BioLife Solutions Inc. (OTCBB: BLFS) - a leading developer and marketer of proprietary hypothermic storage and cryopreservation media products for cells, tissues, and organs.
Sean Marett – Managing Director – Product Development Services for NextPharma, commented “We are delighted to have this opportunity to work with BioLife as its’ outsourcing partner of choice. Our capabilities are a perfect match to meet all of its business requirements and our experience and project management expertise will provide BioLife’s management team with the peace of mind it requires to fully focus its energies on achieving their future strategic plans.”
NextPharma develops, manufactures, packages, and distributes a broad range of products and formulations for its customers including solids, liquids and semi-solid dosage forms, antibiotics, hormones and controlled release medicines. It has a established leadership position in the high technology area of injectables manufacturing (lyophilized and liquid fill), with particular expertise in product development and manufacture of oncology medicines.
Bioserv provides a range of services including aseptic and non-aseptic bulk formulation, filtration, filling and lyophilization services plus packaging, labelling, validation, documentation services, and controlled product and cold chain storage. Its customers include small and large corporations worldwide in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries.
BioLife Solutions Inc. develops and markets patented hypothermic storage and
cryopreservation media for cells, tissues, and organs. Their proprietary HypoThermosol® and CryoStor™ preservation media products are marketed to companies, laboratories, and academic institutions engaged in research and commercial clinical applications. BioLife products are serum-free and protein-free and are fully defined and formulated to reduce preservation-induced, delayed-onset cell damage and death. Their platform enabling technology provides academic and clinical researchers significant improvement in post-thaw cell, tissue, and organ viability.
Contact:
Franck Latrille
Chief Executive Officer
NextPharma Technologies Holding Limited
Tel.: +44 (0) 1483 479 120
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About NextPharma
NextPharma Technologies, headquartered in the UK and founded in 2000, is world class provider of product development, contract manufacturing and distribution outsourcing services to the pharmaceutical, specialty pharmaceutical, generics and biotech industry.
It offers a broad range of services from early phase product development, through clinical trials supplies to high volume commercial manufacturing. NextPharma is a world leader in lyophilization, sterile fill-finish and pellet technologies and in specialist product manufacturing including cytotoxics, hormones, penicillins, cephalosporins and controlled substances. Its sterile development and production offers a full range of drug delivery technologies including pre-filled syringes, vials and ampoules.
NextPharma operates globally with seven product development centres, seven manufacturing plants and six storage and distribution sites across Europe and North America employing over 1,200 people. Across these locations NextPharma has built-up a strong track record in the development and manufacture of cytotoxics, hormones, antibiotics, pellets, sterile, solid, semi-solid, liquid and dry dosage forms, supplying customers in North America, Europe and Japan.
NextPharma has a customer base, which includes many of the world's leading pharmaceutical, specialty pharma and biotech companies.

