Corning Cell Culture Upscaling Workshop at NIBRT 2024

Corning 2024 Cell Culture Upscaling Workshop in collaboration with NIBRT is your opportunity to: 

  • Deeply explore different Corning bioprocess platforms for upscaling cell culture from R&D to production.
  • Gain hands-on experience on the Corning bioprocess vessels. 
  • Discover Corning’s cutting-edge Ascent® Fixed Bed Bioreactor (FBR) System
  • Learn best practices and tips when manipulating Corning’s cell culture vessels.
  • Meet our Field Application Scientist team to exchange technical and scientific insights on your project and processes.
  • Learn how to scale-up, scale-out, and to reduce contamination risk by integrating a closed system approach.
  • Meet your peers from academic, pharma, and biotech.
  • Get a Corning HYPERFlask® vessel sample to test in your lab. 

 

 Join us for a dynamic full-day workshop: hands-on experience on different bioprocess platforms, discussion, and networking. 

Speakers

Joan Minard

Joan Minard

Field Application Specialist, EMEA

Corning Life Sciences

 

Joan received his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, in 2019. Since, he has worked in the UK focusing on bioprocess development and scale-up, first at UCB as a Scientist in upstream process sciences, being a Pilot Plant manager with focus on the process development (mammalian and microbial) for the production of antibody and antibody-derived molecules; then, at Nonacus Ltd as a Bioprocess Engineer in production for process optimization and scale-up of diagnostic kits for cancer detection with Next Generation Sequencing. 

Joan joined Corning in 2024 as a Field Application Scientist (FAS) focusing on the bioprocess portfolio.

Selamawit Alemu

Selamawit Alemu

Research & Development Scientist I

StemVAC GmbH

 

Selamawit Alemu earned her M.Sc. degree in Radiation Biology from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in 2019. Following her graduation, she joined StemVAC’s research and development team in 2020, where she has been working as a research Scientist ever since.

At StemVAC, Selam specializes in oncolytic viral therapy, a cutting-edge area of cancer treatment that uses viruses to target and destroy cancer cells. She particularly focuses on assay and process development, encompassing areas such as small- and large-scale cell expansion, virus production, upstream and downstream virus purification and virus quantification assays advancing the efficacy and safety of oncolytic viral therapies. In addition to small-scale expansion, Selam has hands-on experience in the development and optimization of bioreactors for various stages of cell culture, including expansion, infection, and harvesting.

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Agenda

TimeSessionPresenter/Description
9:30 - 10:00Welcome coffee 
10:00 - 10:10IntroductionTBD
10:10 - 10:30Up-scaling solution for cell therapy manufacturing

Joan Minard

Field Application Specialist, EMEA

Corning Life Sciences

10:30 - 11:00Optimizing Bioprocess Scalability: Plastic Flasks to Bioreactors

Selamawit Alemu

Research & Development Scientist I

StemVAC GmbH

11:00 - 11:10Room change 
11:10 - 12:00Stacked vessels sessionProducts for upscaling, scale-up vs. scale-out, stacked vessels manipulations, closed system hands-on
12:00 - 13:00Lunch Break and facilities tour 
Rotation sessions

13:00 - 14:00

 

14:00 - 15:00

 

15:00 - 16:00

HYPER technologyHow to manipulate the Corning HYPERFlask® and introduction to the Corning CellCube® System

13:00 - 14:00

 

14:00 - 15:00

 

15:00 - 16:00

Upscaling with HYPER technologyHow to manipulate the Corning HYPERStack 12- and 36-Stack vessel (filling, emptying, harvest)

13:00 - 14:00

 

14:00 - 15:00 

 

15:00 - 16:00

Corning Ascent® Fixed Bed Reactor SystemIntroduction and demonstration
16:00 – 16:30Scaling out sessionManifolded Corning HYPERStack handling demo
16:30 – 17:00Open questions/Closing remarks