The facility features up to 20 independent cGMP-compliant manufacturing lines designed to handle both autologous and allogeneic cell therapies. By segregating infrastructure, the center can manage multiple complex processes in parallel, ensuring strict quality control for personalized vaccines, regenerative medicine applications, and 3D human tissue technologies. Northway Biotech, founded by Prof. Vladas Algirdas Bumelis, enters this expansion phase with client contracts already secured.

Scaling Advanced Medicine

This project marks a milestone for the Stem Cell Research Center, which celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. The center is intended to serve international pharmaceutical firms, research institutions, and university hospitals. By focusing on highly specific manufacturing processes—where a single production line may be dedicated to an individual patient—the company is shifting away from traditional large-batch pharmaceutical models. The initiative is supported by private funding and a loan from the national development bank ILTE, aligning with Lithuania's broader economic goal of growing the life sciences sector to 5% of its GDP by 2030. The site will employ approximately 100 professionals, further integrating into the BIO CITY ecosystem alongside existing gene therapy and biologics operations.