Process Development & Protein Purification Day

Time              Monday 16^th of March, 2009 from 10.00 – 18.00

Venue            Medipolis, Kiviharjuntie 11, Oulu, Finland

Registration    By Thursday 12^th of March, 2009 at mari.leppilampi@ouluinnovation.com

                      or by phone +358 44 2140120

Programme

10.00                  Coffee

10.30                  Welcome and introduction                                                            

Tuula Palmén, Bioforum Oulu, Oulu Innovation

10.45                  GE Healthcare, introduction and capabilities                                                                                  

Vibeke Holmer, GE Healthcare

11.30                  Introduction to protein purification

Sofie Stille, GE Healthcare

- The general process facility

                             - Overview of the different unit operations

12.00                  Lunch

13.00                  Process development

Chromatography media for research and drug screening (30 min)                                          

                             Criteria for screening, process development and regulatory aspects (30 min)                   

Annika Karlsson, GE Healthcare

14.00                  Process development and pilot scale manufacturing hardware systems overview

Laboratory scale and process development hardware systems (20 min)                              

Jussi Junkkarinen, GE Healthcare

Pilot scale manufacturing hardware systems (20 min)        

Sofie Still, GE Healthcare

The ReadyToProcess concept (20 min)

Annika Karlsson, GE Healthcare

15.00                  Coffee break and time for questions

15.30                  The industrial perspective

Process economy (20 min)

                             MAB framework, an industrial approach to Monoclonal Antibody Purification (20 min) 

Annika Karlsson, GE Healthcare

Process scale hardware systems (20 min)                                                             

Sofie Stille, GE Healthcare

16.30                  Process purification training

Introduction to FastTrak concept and courses

Annika Karlsson, GE Healthcare

17.00                  The AxiChrom chromatography column                                                                

                             Concept and features (20 min)

Sofie Stille, GE Healthcare

Industrial example (20 min)                                                                                         

Guest speaker

17.45                  Summary and closing              

Tuula Palmén, Bioforum Oulu, Oulu Innovation

18.00                  Meeting ends

The seminar day is free of charge. Welcome!

More information: 050-4617290 / Tuula Palmén or 044-2140120 / Mari Leppilampi

Kind regards,

Tuula Palmén

Bioforum Oulu

Oulu Innovation

in collaboration with the GE Healthcare team:

Vibeke Holmer, Nordic Sales Manager

Annika Karlsson, Sales Development Manager

Sofie Stille, Account Manager, BioProcess

Jussi Junkkarinen, Account Manager, Research Science