Sustainable and scalable oligonucleotide manufacturing: addressing operational and CMC challenges

“The hardest things to control at scale are sequence-related impurities and batch-to-batch consistency.” Jokūbas Leikauskas, Editor, Nucleic Acid Insights, speaks to Fred Briones, Senior Director, CMC, City Therapeutics, about the challenges and opportunities of scaling oligonucleotide manufacturing to commercial volumes, with particular emphasis on sustainability, process innovation, and regulatory alignment in RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics.

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Nucleic Acid Insights
Published
2026-03-03
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18609/nuc.2026.009
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RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
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Sustainable and scalable oligonucleotide manufacturing: addressing operational and CMC challenges

Fred Briones
Nucleic Acid Insights
RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
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Sustainable and scalable oligonucleotide manufacturing: addressing operational and CMC challenges

Fred Briones
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Abstract

“The hardest things to control at scale are sequence-related impurities and batch-to-batch consistency.” Jokūbas Leikauskas, Editor, Nucleic Acid Insights, speaks to Fred Briones, Senior Director, CMC, City Therapeutics, about the challenges and opportunities of scaling oligonucleotide manufacturing to commercial volumes, with particular emphasis on sustainability, process innovation, and regulatory alignment in RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics.

Nucleic Acid InsightsVol. 3(2)
Q Therapeutics (United States) (US)
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Openalex Percentile: Top 35%
RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
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