Process Development & Protein Purification Day

Time Monday 16th of March, 2009 from 10.00 - 18.00 Venue Medipolis, Kiviharjuntie 11, Oulu, Finland

Registration By Thursday 12th 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