Executive Summary: Cell Culture: The World Market for Media, Sera, and Reagents

Containing a snapshot of the overall market analysis, each Executive Summary provides a description of the scope and methodology used in the report; a summary of results including market size and market growth; a sampling of charts and graphs when available; and a brief look at the trends shaping the market.

The report from which this Executive Summary is compiled is Cell Culture: The World Market for Media, Sera, and Reagents , and the full study abstract is as follows:

In the pharmaceutical industry, cell culture is a major foundation of biopharmaceutical development, bioprocessing and manufacturing. Biopharmaceutical products are developed from large, complex protein molecules, which require equally complex manufacturing methods and an array of analytical techniques. As growing cells for biopharmaceutical production is slow, expensive and complicated, optimizing cell culture development is of paramount concern to companies developing biopharmaceuticals.

This report is focused on cell culture used in the research and production of biopharmaceuticals, analyzing the world cell culture market and the major trends driving this market in three specific segments:

• Media,
• Sera, and
• Reagents

In addition to a thorough discussion of the technologies and techniques currently employed and emerging in the cell culture area, the Kalorama's exhaustive report provides specific information on:

• Market Size, growth, and forecasts of the segments through 2011
• Competitive Market Share by leading supplier as of 2005.
• Estimated Market Share by Media Type (this is not available in other reports)
• Key Market Drivers and Restraints for suppliers, including discussions of biopharmaceutical pipelines, seasonal vaccine production, biomedical R&D directions, and the future of transgenic plant and animal production.
• Review of the various expression systems (Bacteria, Yeast, Insect, and Mammal) and the biopharmaceutical product manufactured by these systems
• Discussion of the trends and preferences in media types vying for dominance in the market, including the following:
  • ADCF - animal derived component free media
  • CD - chemically defined media
  • CSFM - complete serum free medium
  • PF - protein free media
  • SF - serum free media
  • SFM - serum free medium
• Profiles of 28 leading suppliers and information about M&A activities since 2003.