Roche Opens Center of Excellence Facility

Roche opened a new clinical supply manufacturing facility on its campus in Nutley, NJ. The Roche Center of Excellence produces dosage forms of highly potent compounds for preclinical safety studies, and Phase I and II studies. The 17,000 sq.-ft. facility houses specialized equipment to process potent compounds for clinical trials.

“This is a vitally important milestone for the Nutley site as well as Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development at Roche,” said Waseem Malick, Ph.D., vice president, Pharmaceutical & Analytical R&D. “It enables continued support of our portfolio, and is another example of Roche’s commitment to Nutley as a major research center for Roche.”

The clinical dosage forms produced at the facility include tablets, capsules, powders, suspensions and solutions. The facility manufactures clinical supplies of highly active compounds under cGMP for Roche trials worldwide. It also contains warehouses for components, excipients and APIs, mechanical rooms and multipurpose isolation suites for manufacturing.