Ajinomoto Althea is a fully integrated, contract development and manufacturing organization located in San Diego, CA providing services for clinical and commercial development. Althea offers aseptic filling in vials and syringes, and production of microbial-derived recombinant proteins and plasmid DNA. In addition, Ajinomoto Althea offers comprehensive development services including upstream and downstream process development, analytical development, and stability and release testing. Ajinomoto Althea’s also offers Crystalomics®, a solution for proteins that must be delivered at high concentrations or as sustained release formulation, and Corynex®, a novel protein expression system.