Protalix Looks Beyond Biobetters

Protalix Biotherapeutics plant cell-based platform has been a point of differentiation for the company, a faster and more scalable way of producing protein therapeutics. The company first product, an enzyme replacement therapy for Gaucher disease, offered a proof of its approach. The company is pursuing therapies for Fabry disease and cystic fibrosis, as well as inflammatory diseases, but it is also in the process of rethinking its strategy of biobetters. We spoke to Dror Bashan, CEO of Protalix, about the company’s manufacturing platform, its therapeutic pipeline, and its desire to move toward addressing unmet medical needs.