Bioforum Oulu & GE Healthcare: Process Development & Protein Purification Day 16.3.2009, Medipolis, Oulu - 11.03.2009

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Process Development & Protein Purification Day

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

Registration By Friday 13th 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:                050-4...        / Tuula Palmén or                04...        / 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