Cangene Corp. Senior Vice President of Operations to deliver keynote address at the 19th Annual ASME Bioprocess Technology Seminars

Bill Bees, Senior Vice President, Operations is responsible for operations management at Cangene manufacturing facilities that include biotechnology fermentation purification, antibody fractionation facilities, fill finish facilities, as well as plasma collection operations.

Bill has been with Cangene for over 25 years with variety of management positions in quality control, quality assurance, and product development prior to operational management. For the last 10 years Bill has been Vice President, Operations. In that role, Bill provided operational leadership in the construction, validation, scale up and licensing of Cangene’s hyperimmune plasma fractionation facility and the expansion of bacterial fermentation, mammalian fermentation, and packaging/warehousing facilities. More recently, he has provided this same leadership to Cangene’s fractionation expansion facility currently nearing completion. Bill is widely recognized and respected throughout industry and government circles as an expert in blood and plasma safety, manufacturing, and risk management.

Focusing his presentation on Multi product Facility Design, Bill will talk about the new purification facility his company has built in Winnipeg, and how the company approached the design of the new facility to maximize flexibility.

Bill has a post graduate degree in microbiology, biochemistry, as well as an MBA.

Cangene is a world leader in hyperimmune manufacture and development as well as a key player in anti-infective biodefence drugs with a number of successful programs completed or launched post 9/11.