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Biopharmaceutical Development and Production Week

Nine Conferences — One Location: Hilton Bayfront (San Diego, CA)

December 19, 2011

Pay the admission price of one conference and gain access to all sessions and speaker materials from all conferences taking place on the days you are registered — at no extra cost. Mix-and-match the presentations that are most relevant to you to create your own custom conference...

The ISO Environmental Management Standard

Expanding on a Brief Mention from November 2011's Special Report

6 December 2011

The ISO 14000 environmental management standards series helps companies minimize how their operations negatively affect the environment; comply with applicable laws, regulations, and other requirements; and continually improve in those respects. This standard is similar to ISO 9000 (for...

Technology Case Study

Raising Immune Response to Vaccines

November 17, 2011

One challenge in vaccine development is finding effective methods to introduce antigens that will provide cellular or humoral immune responses that are not only strong, but long lasting. To this end, Immunovaccine, an early stage vaccine company, has developed a formulation to enhance ...

Best Posters at BPI in Long Beach

Flownamics and Genzyme Take the 2011 Prizes

November 11, 2011

Kudos once again to our IBC colleagues for another excellent BioProcess International Conference and Exposition. Throughout the week of 31 October–4 November 2011, more than 1,400 attendees and 125 exhibitors engaged in lively discussions on critical issues affecting our industry....

End of an Era?

And What Have Space Shuttles Done for Biotechnology?

July 15, 2011

STS-135, the final NASA space shuttle mission, is about half complete. As a child of the space age (I was born in 1969, perhaps the most venerable year in space exploration history) and a science fiction fan, I’ve closely followed these missions since the beginning — from...

Glass Delamination

A Growing Problem for the Pharmaceutical Industry

July 7, 2011

Glass has long held a dominant presence in the pharmaceutical market for drug product container–closure systems. Desired properties for such systems include strength, transparency, stability, impermeability, and resistance to chemical attack. These characteristics are critical to...

A Biotech Application of Nanotechnology

Novel Electronic Biosensing Technology Could Facilitate a New Era of Personalized Medicine

March 11, 2011

The multiwelled microplate, long a standard tool in biomedical research and diagnostic laboratories, could become a thing of the past for some applications thanks to new electronic biosensing technology developed by a team of microelectronics engineers and biomedical scientists at the...

Bad Medicine

QA/QC Issues Get Their 15 Minutes

February 28, 2011

On 2 January 2011, the venerable CBS news magazine 60 Minutes aired a special report called “Bad Medicine” that featured an interview with Cheryl Eckard, a federal whistleblower and former GlaxoSmithKline quality assurance employee. She had reported to the US FDA certain...

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Biopharmaceutical Production
Facility Design Strategies for Single-Use Technologies

Please join us for a free webinar addressing strategies for facility design in biopharmaceutical manufacturing:

Wednesday, 29 February 2012
8:00 AM and 1:00 PM EST

Presented by:

Ingrid Long, MSc
Research Engineer
GE Healthcare Life Sciences

During the webinar, Ms. Long will discuss the impact of different strategies for facility design, with a focus on the following topics:

* Replacement of traditional equipment with the single-use equivalent
* Biopharmaceutical manufacturing in a single room
* Benefits of facility design with respect to cost, risk, and flexibility

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