Sustainable and scalable oligonucleotide manufacturing: addressing operational and CMC challenges

Nucleic Acid Insights 2026; 3(2), 79–84

DOI: 10.18609/nuc.2026.009

Published: 3 March
Interview
Fred Briones



“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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