How flexible manufacturing capacity is revolutionising bioprocessing
Single use technologies have revolutionized manufacturing operations in the biopharmaceutical industry. While they are now commonly used for production of clinical trial material, new flexible facility design, incorporating advanced technologies can also enable more efficient commercial manufacturing of monoclonal antibodies and other biopharmaceutical products. This webinar will address the following topics:
• The potential for smaller size bioreactors to manage efficient commercial scale production
• Expanding manufacturing flexibility by introducing time and cost saving technologies
• Improved facility design to enable rapid product change over and reduce overall batch cycle times
• Reducing facility CapEX for commercial manufacturing
Presented by
Howard L. Levine,
President and Principal Consultant, BioProcess Technology Consultants, Inc.
Howard L. Levine, Ph.D., President and Principal Consultant of BioProcess Technology Consultants has over 30 years of experience in successful product companies and as founder of BioProcess Technology Consultants, Inc., the leading CMC consulting group in the biopharmaceutical industry. Dr. Levine is also Managing Director of BPTC Europe, established in September 2010 to provide local consulting services to the European Community.
Fritjof Linz,
Vice President Global Research & Development, DSM Biologics
Dr Linz joined DSM nine years ago having responsibilities for large Pharma companies' chemical and microbial CMO business, serving countries like Germany, Japan and others. From 2008 until end 2012 he was a member of the DSM Biologics sales team with responsibilities for custom manufacturing and technology licensing around the world – mainly Europe, and he was heading Global Marketing. Since January 2013 Dr. Linz has a position of Vice President Global R&D.
Detlev Szarafinski,
Manager Cross sectional Technologies, Sartorius Stedim Biotech Marketing Integrated Solutions, Germany
Detlev Szarafinski studied Chemical Engineering at the technical University of Dortmund, Germany, (M.Eng.) and joined Sartorius in 1984. He worked in various positions in technical support, sales and marketing. Since January 2009 he became the project manager for configurable single-use systems and was the responsible program manager for FlexAct® single-use systems within SSB Marketing Integrated Solutions. With the beginning of 2012 he coordinates as the cross sectional manager the SSB flexible manufacturing concepts and projects.
