BPI West Starts Today in Santa Clara – Don’t miss these exciting talks and activities
BPI West 2019 begins March 11th in Santa Clara. The conference is focused on providing companies the opportunity to share ideas, strategies, and solutions to overcome challenges at every stage of development. Cell Culture Dish/Downstream Column will be attending and blogging from the event. Please don’t miss our BPI West related blogs over the next month.
It is not too late to attend
Get your Exhibit Hall Pass to BioProcess International West 2019 or Attend the Conference by Registering Onsite
Meet the global CMOs, CROs, suppliers and technology leaders who can accelerate your product to market by getting a pass to BPI West’s exhibit hall, open March 12-13 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Learn more at https://lifesciences.knect365.com/bpi-west/exhibit-hall-pass
If you are attending, don’t miss these exciting talks and activities! Interesting Talks in Each Track. Here are some examples:
Plenary Sessions Presentations
Challenges and Opportunities in Development of Innovative Vaccines for the 21st Century
Rahul Singhvi, ScD – Chief Operating Officer, Takeda Vaccines, Inc
The Innovator’s Dilemma – Organizing to Drive Performance in a Global Biologics Manufacturing Network
Eric Fallon, Ph.D – Senior DIrector, PT Technology, Innovation, and MSAT, Genentech, Inc.
Technology Workshops:
Tuesday
Chromassette®, a 3D printed modular chromatography platform enabling next-generation, hyper-productive bioprocess purification
Masayoshi Nagaya – Sr. Global Technology Manager, JSR Life Sciences
Single-Use Polymers and Performance
Janelle Rupkalvis – Field Applications Engineer, Entegris
High-Throughput Development of Perfusion Processes and Implementation of Scalable and Flexible Intensified Manufacturing Strategies
Melisa Carpio – Global Technology Consultant, Sartorius Stedim
Improved Clone Selection in Crude by Combining Titer and Glycan Screening on the Octet
Viraj Palkhiwala – Product Manager,ForteBio – Biologics by Molecular Devices
Wednesday
Modifying mAb glycosylation through cell culture medium supplementation BD Select™ GlycanMod Pak 100
Neelanjan Sengupta, PhD – Senior Scientist, BD Biosciences Advanced Bioprocessing
C1 expression platform updates as the alternative to CHO. Sanofi Aventis, Mitsubishi and others sign up
Matthew Jones – Chief Commercial Officer, Dyadic International Inc.
A pragmatic approach to layout and automation when designing a new biomanufacturing facility
Peter Genest – Director of Automation Offerings and Strategy, GE Healthcare Life Sciences
IS Sf Insect – A New Medium Supporting High-Density Insect Cell Growth
Lu Chen, PhD – Sr. Scientist, FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific
Thursday
Avid Case Study – Taking your molecule through process validation
Dave Briggs, PhD – Sr. Manager, Avid Bioservices, Inc. and William Leonardi, PhD – Project Manager, Avid Bioservices, Inc.
Efficient Protein Production Process in Mammalian Cells – Scale and Quality
Mark Fox, PhD – Director, ATUM (formerly DNA2.0)
Next generation technologies that yield higher quality CHO clones and intensified gene to GMP timelines
Nigel Shipston, Ph.D – Director, Program Design, FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies
Cell Culture Dish and Downstream Column Sponsor Activities:
BD Biosciences – Booth 503
Technology Workshop – Wednesday
Modifying mAb glycosylation through cell culture medium supplementation BD Select™ GlycanMod Pak 100
Neelanjan Sengupta, PhD – Senior Scientist, BD Biosciences Advanced Bioprocessing
Beckman Coulter – Booth 704
Eppendorf – Booth 500
Exhibiting DASbox MiniBioreactor Parallel System, the BF320 and BF120 Benchtop systems in the booth as well as the full line of single-use vessels.
Posters:
Role of Impeller Design for the Cultivation of Stem Cells in Stirred-Tank Bioreactors
rAAV Production in BioBLU® 3c and 10c Single-Use Vessels
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies – Booth 721
Technology Workshop Thursday:
Next generation technologies that yield higher quality CHO clones and intensified gene to GMP timelines
Nigel Shipston, Ph.D – Director, Program Design, FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies
GE Healthcare Life Sciences – Booth 312
Talks:
Tuesday
10:00 Next generation biomanufacturing and facility implementation: technical advances in manufacturing technologies to improve process productivity
Parrish Galliher, Chief Technology Officer, Upstream, GE Healthcare
2:15 Cellulose fiber protein A adsorbent is paving the way for the future of mAb purification
Jerome Pezzini, Scientist, DSP Breakthrough Skill Center, Sanofi
2:45 Enabling efficient biomanufacturing with digital innovation
Harlan S. Knapp, Business Development Manager, GE Healthcare
Wednesday
Technology Workshop
A pragmatic approach to layout and automation when designing a new biomanufacturing facility
Peter Genest – Director of Automation Offerings and Strategy, GE Healthcare Life Sciences
For more information on product showcases, please see – http://landing1.gehealthcare.com/BPI-West-2019.html
JSR Life Sciences – Booth 307
Technology Workshop
Tuesday
Chromassette®, a 3D printed modular chromatography platform enabling next-generation, hyper-productive bioprocess purification
Masayoshi Nagaya – Sr. Global Technology Manager, JSR Life Sciences
Kaneka – Booth 718
MaxCyte – Booth 823
MilliporeSigma – Booth 405
Talks:
Tuesday 10:00-11:00
Beyond Bioprocessing 4.0: Enabling Technologies, Analytics, & Leveraging the new
Digital Era
Panelists:
- Nuno Pinto, Senior Scientist, Merck & Co
- Thibault Dutronc, Associate Scientist, EMD Serono
- Alessandro Butte, Senior Scientist and lecturer at ETH Zurich, Co-founder and CEO of DataHow at ETH Zurich
- Michael Phillips, Head of Next Generation Bioprocessing Applications & Innovation, MilliporeSigma
Moderator:
Merrilee Whitney, Head of BioContinuum™ Platform for Next Generation Bioprocessing, MilliporeSigma
Wednesday 1:40-2:10
A Holistic Approach to Upstream Viral Safety
Craig Jackson, Senior Product Manager, Biosafety, Process Solutions, MilliporeSigma
For more information on MilliporeSigma activities, please see http://www.emdmillipore.com/US/en/20190109_162143?bd=1
Pall Life Sciences – Booth 717
Monday 12:30-1:00
Virus Safety For Continuous Processing
Mark Schofield, Ph.D. – Principal R&D Engineer, Pall Biotech
Wednesday 2:45-3:15
Flexible & Smart Facilities – Industry Challenges
Loe Cameron – Director of Analytics & Controls, Pall Corporation
Repligen – Booth 506
Wednesday 7:15-7:45
Scalable pre-packed column performance from 1mL – 100L
Adam Nelson – Technical Support Specialist, Repligen Corporation
Sudhir Prabhu, Field Application Specialist will be on site and will be available to discuss poster:
High Productivity Harvest: A Novel Approach to Fed-batch Process Intensification
Roche Custom Biotech – Booth 504
Talks:
Tuesday 2:45-3:15
Integrated Data Management from Research to GMP Production in Pharma Biotech
Tim Noetzel, Ph.D Process Automation Manager, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Germany
Wednesday 2:15-2:45
Automation and Digitalization in Upstream Process Development: Embedding Advanced Microscale Bioreactors (ambr) In an Efficient Sample and Data Workflow
Timo Frensing, Ph.D Senior Scientist, Large Molecule Research, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Germany Presentation
For more information, please see Roche BPI Flyer
Sartorius Stedim – Booth 412
Technology Workshop
High-Throughput Development of Perfusion Processes and Implementation of Scalable and Flexible Intensified Manufacturing Strategies
Melisa Carpio – Global Technology Consultant, Sartorius Stedim