eXmoor Pharma and Siam Bioscience Partner to Establish Southeast Asia's Leading Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Hub
Key Insights
eXmoor Pharma (search) and Siam Bioscience (search) announced a strategic partnership to build Southeast Asia's foremost center for cell and gene therapy development and manufacturing in Bangkok, Thailand.
The collaboration will provide comprehensive services including consultancy, process development, and GMP manufacturing to support local innovation and attract global CGT investment to the region.
The partnership aims to improve patient access to transformative cell and gene therapies (search) across Southeast Asia by offering regionally-based manufacturing that reduces delays and logistic burdens.
eXmoor Pharma (search), the integrated cell and gene therapy CDMO with embedded consultancy expertise, and Siam Bioscience (search), a leading biopharmaceutical company in ASEAN, announced a strategic partnership to build the region's foremost centre for Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT) development and manufacturing. The collaboration aims to stimulate and accelerate the growth of the CGT industry in Thailand and Southeast Asia while providing comprehensive services to support local innovation and attract global therapies and investment into the region.
Comprehensive Service Platform for Advanced Therapeutics
Based in Bangkok, the new offering will serve therapy developers working to deliver advanced medicines to patients more efficiently and in full regulatory compliance. Under the partnership, eXmoor will work jointly with Siam Bioscience (search) to provide a full range of services including consultancy, process and analytical development, and GMP clinical and commercial manufacturing. These services will support CGT programmes developed in Thailand and Southeast Asia.
The new centre will be located at Siam Bioscience (search)'s manufacturing site near Bangkok, with both companies contributing their respective expertise and infrastructure to the initiative. Cell and gene therapies (search) represent the cutting edge of biotherapeutics (search), functioning as one-time medicines that use genetic materials and living cells to treat various severe and rare diseases, such as cancer (search) and genetic diseases (search), at a molecular or cellular level.
Addressing Manufacturing Complexities
The production of these advanced medicines involves sensitive steps, including cell harvesting, transportation, expansion, gene transduction, and infusion into the patient. Each of these steps needs to be consistent, reproducible, and traceable in order to ensure a quality of product to the patient. The partnership addresses these manufacturing challenges by combining technical expertise with regional infrastructure capabilities.
Regional Access and Global Standards
The partnership also aims to act as a platform to introduce international cell and gene therapies (search) and technologies into the region. This will give patients across Southeast Asia greater access to international standard CGT, while supporting the growth of sustainable healthcare systems in the region. By offering a regionally based but globally aligned manufacturing model, the collaboration aims to reduce delays, lower logistic burdens, and improve equity of access to transformative therapies.
Angela Osborne, Executive Chair of eXmoor Pharma (search), commented: "We are pleased to collaborate with Siam Bioscience (search) on such a visionary and impactful initiative. Thailand and Southeast Asia are rapidly emerging as hubs for cell and gene therapy innovation. By combining Siam Bioscience's regional leadership with eXmoor's technical expertise and global CDMO capabilities, we are creating a launchpad to support both local breakthroughs and international partnerships. This is about bringing life-changing therapies to more patients, more quickly, and with the right infrastructure to support long-term success."
Strategic Vision for ASEAN Medical Hub
Songpon Deechongkit, CEC at Siam Bioscience (search), said: "Partnering with eXmoor Pharma (search) allows us to leverage its track record of supporting and growing successful CGT companies and programmes over the past 20 years to advance cell and gene therapy in our region. Our CGT centre will not only enable access to established products, but also support translational research in Thailand and neighbouring countries, with a focus on practical commercialisation in line with international standards. These efforts will strengthen Thailand's position as a medical hub for the ASEAN region."
Nualphan Lamsam, Honorary Corporate Communications Director of Siam Bioscience (search), added: "As cell and gene therapies (search) become increasingly effective in treating serious diseases such as cancer (search) and hereditary conditions (search), we are truly excited about this partnership and its potential to help bring forward life-altering treatments. While Siam Bioscience has been manufacturing conventional biotech medicines for more than a decade, this collaboration takes us to the next frontier of innovation and enables us to provide both broad and niche therapies for patients in Thailand and across the region."
Company Backgrounds
eXmoor Pharma (search) is the only integrated cell and gene therapy CDMO with over 20 years of consultancy expertise embedded at every stage of development. With a purpose-built facility in Bristol, UK, and over 170 clients globally, eXmoor supports clients from early-phase strategy and process development to GMP manufacturing and commercialisation.
Siam Bioscience (search) is a leading biopharmaceutical company in ASEAN, with over 15 years of experience in research, development, manufacturing and commercialisation of biotherapeutics (search), vaccines (search) and small molecules. With a state-of-the-art EU GMP-certified manufacturing facility, Siam Bioscience has successfully transferred and supplied critical technologies in collaboration with global partners.