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Multiply Labs, the physical AI company automating some of the most complex manufacturing processes in medicine, today announced a $75 million Series B, bringing its total capital raised to over $100 million since its founding in 2016. The round was led by Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong with NantWorks, with new investors AstraZeneca, Lingotto, Teradyne, and Strange Ventures, and returning investors Casdin Capital, Lux Capital, Fifty Years, Ora Global, and Founders Fund, among others.

Multiply Labs today announced an agreement with AstraZeneca to evaluate the potential for applying GMP-ready robotic systems to commercial-scale cell therapy manufacturing. Multiply Labs is a current leader in autonomous manufacturing technology for advanced therapies.

Multiply Labs, a leader in robotic biomanufacturing, today announced a landmark milestone in its mission to scale production of cell and gene therapies; The company is now leveraging NVIDIA’s open Isaac and GR00T technologies including advanced robotics simulation and perception, marking a turning point for an industry that has historically relied on manual, "artisanal" processes.

Multiply Labs, a robotics company developing industry-leading automated manufacturing systems to produce individualized drugs, today announced the launch of its collaboration with Legend Biotech Corporation (NASDAQ: LEGN) (Legend Biotech), a global leader in the cell therapy space. This initiative will be focused on automating cell therapy manufacturing, leveraging Multiply Labs’ unique approach which consists of robotic systems that can operate a wide variety of instruments already deployed in the cell and gene therapy industry. This collaboration holds the potential to enable a more rapid and seamless adoption of robotic technology, as opposed to traditional automation approaches that require substantial changes to the manufacturing process.

Multiply Labs, a robotics company developing industry-leading automated manufacturing systems to produce individualized drugs, and Retro Biosciences (Retro), a biotechnology company developing therapies that meaningfully address age-related diseases, today announced a first-of-its-kind commercial and supply agreement valued at up to $85 million to automate Retro’s groundbreaking approach.

Multiply Labs, a robotics company developing industry-leading automated manufacturing systems to produce individualized drugs, and Wilson Wolf, an innovative leader in cell and gene-modified cell (CGT) manufacturing technology, today announced a collaboration around the automation of Wilson Wolf’s G-Rex® bioreactors.

Multiply Labs, a robotics company developing industry-leading automated manufacturing systems to produce individualized drugs, and GenScript Biotech Corporation (GenScript), one of the world's leading providers of life-science research tools and services, today announced a strategic partnership around the automation of the cell isolation phase of cell therapy manufacturing, reducing the complexity of this laborious process.

Multiply Labs, a robotics company developing industry-leading automated manufacturing systems to produce individualized drugs, today announced its upcoming collaboration with Stanford Medicine’s Laboratory for Cell & Gene Medicine (LCGM) to demonstrate the potential of automation technology for cell therapy manufacturing. This collaboration will combine LCGM’s world-leading process development expertise with Multiply Labs’ robotic technology. Multiply Labs’ unique approach to cell therapy manufacturing automation focuses on robotic systems that can operate GMP-proven instruments from multiple different vendors. The robots operate instruments, consumables and reagents which are already extensively deployed for cell and gene therapy manufacturing, enabling plug-and-play-like capabilities, and fewer regulatory barriers, as no major process changes are required for robotic compatibility.

Multiply Labs, a robotics company developing industry-leading automated manufacturing systems to produce individualized drugs, today announced that Cytotherapy, the official journal of the International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy (ISCT), published a peer-reviewed research article focused on the performance of its proof-of-concept robotic system developed alongside a group of leading cell therapy organizations.

Through integration with Multiply Labs' robotic technology, Thermo Fisher Scientific’s advanced, industry-leading cell therapy instruments, including the Thermo Scientific™ Heracell™ VIOS Automated Access CO2 Incubator and the Gibco™ Cell Therapy Systems (CTS™) Rotea™ Counterflow Centrifugation System can now be fully automated for cell therapy manufacturing. This collaboration is an important step forward for cell therapy development and manufacturing with a goal of supporting reduced costs, accelerated production timelines and improved scalability, helping innovative cell therapies reach more patients.

Multiply Labs, a robotics company developing industry-leading automated manufacturing systems to produce individualized drugs, and Fedegari Group, a world leader in the design and manufacturing of customized systems for producing sterile drugs and MDs, today announced a strategic partnership around the automation of the sterilization of cell therapy robotic systems. Leveraging Multiply Labs' cell therapy robotic cluster and Fedegari’s sterilization and bio-decontamination technology, this partnership will effectively reduce any contamination risk by automating sterilization capabilities.

Multiply Labs, a robotics company developing industry-leading automated manufacturing systems to produce individualized drugs, and Akron Bio (“Akron”), a leading supplier of critical materials and services for advanced therapies, today announced a non-exclusive partnership focused on automating and standardizing the use of cytokines in cell therapy manufacturing.

Multiply Labs, a robotics company developing industry-leading automated manufacturing systems to produce individualized drugs (including but not limited to cell therapies), announced today that its proof-of-concept robotic system, developed along with UCSF, Cytiva, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Charles River, has been successfully completed. The data from this project indicate that manual cell therapy manufacturing tasks (and in particular, cell expansion processes based on leading GMP bioreactors) can be replicated by robotic systems by leveraging automation to achieve comparable critical process parameters.

Multiply Labs, a robotics company developing industry-leading automated manufacturing systems to produce individualized drugs, today announced performance results for its proof-of-concept robotic system, developed along with UCSF, Cytiva, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Charles River Laboratories. This data demonstrates that automated cell therapy manufacturing outcomes (cell quantity and quality) using Multiply Labs’ proof-of-concept robotic system are statistically equivalent to that of a process performed manually. Given this robotic technology is compatible with leading cell therapy manufacturing instruments, the data indicates that it is possible to automate an existing cell expansion protocol without significantly changing the process or impacting product characteristics.

WuXi STA, a subsidiary of WuXi AppTec and a leading global Contract Research, Development and Manufacturing Organization (CRDMO), today announced the partnership with Multiply Labs (based in San Francisco, CA, USA), a robotics company that has developed industry-leading automated manufacturing systems to produce individualized drugs.

The robotic cell therapy manufacturing Consortium founded by Multiply Labs, with initial participation from UCSF and Cytiva, announced today that Thermo Fisher Scientific and Charles River Laboratories, Inc. are joining. The Consortium members have a broad range of expertise in cell therapy manufacturing technologies. The goal of the multi-disciplinary Consortium is to develop and validate a cGMP-compliant robotic manufacturing system that is capable of manufacturing gene modified cell therapies at industrial scale.

Multiply Labs, a robotics company developing automated manufacturing systems for the production of individualized drugs, announced today that it has raised $20 million in a Series A financing led by Casdin Capital. New investors Lux Capital and Pathfinder, Founders Fund’s early stage investment vehicle also participated in the round, along with seed investors Fifty Years and Garage Capital. The oversubscribed round brings Multiply Labs’ total funding raised to date to more than $25 million. With this round, Michael Doherty, a personalized medicine pioneer and former head of Regulatory Affairs at Roche and a representative of Casdin Capital will join Multiply Labs’ Board of Directors.