Mark your calendar for upcoming event(s):

• OCTOBER 26-29, 2009: 22nd ANNUAL BIOPROCESS TECHNOLOGY SEMINARS & EXHIBITION-NORTH AMERICA: MONTREAL, CANADA (website coming soon)

 

Seminars available on CD-ROM. To purchase, contact ASME at +1-973-882-1170

• Bioprocess Equipment Design
This seminar offers a comprehensive review of the factors that influence the selection, design, specification and placement of bioprocessing equipment. Topics will include: upstream and downstream processing equipment design, cleaning and sanitization, validation and commissioning and an introduction to facility design. Regulatory compliance and biocontainment considerations will be discussed. The sessions are presented by process equipment and system designers and suppliers who have real life experiences to share with their audience.

• Fermentation and Cell Culture Design and Scale-up
This seminar will cover fermentation / cell culture basic theory, various scale-up and scale-down strategies, related equipment / facility design and regulatory compliance issues. The seminar reviews some key considerations during fermentation and cell culture scale-up, such as oxygen transfer, power input, agitator and impeller design, environmental control, SIP/CIP. Comparisons of different scale up methodologies will be discussed, as well as how to use process simulation as a viable tool to assist scale-up. Other discussion topics include: bioprocess design as it relates to the different stages of clinical development, regulatory compliance during scale-up, and the integration of large-scale fermentation and cell culture process design with facility design.