Key Sessions

Mike Vandiver

Project Launch Pad - Design Efforts for New Facility in Everett, WA

Seattle Genetics

James Warren

Bioprocess Engineering Strategies to Enhance Productivity and Yield of the Pinnacle ™ Producer Cell Line Platform, Enabling High Productivity at 2000L Scale

Ultragenyx Gene Therapy

Main Conference - Day 2Wednesday, 1 March 2023 - PST/PDT (Pacific Daylight, GMT-7)

8:00am - 8:10am10 mins

Plenary Session

Chairperson's Opening Remarks

8:10am - 8:50am40 mins

Plenary Session

Project Launch Pad - Design Efforts for New Facility in Everett, WA

Mike Vandiver - Site Head, Launch Pad Manufacturing, Executive Director, Manufacturing, Seattle Genetics

8:50am - 9:30am40 mins

Plenary Session

Bioprocess Engineering Strategies to Enhance Productivity and Yield of the Pinnacle ™ Producer Cell Line Platform, Enabling High Productivity at 2000L Scale

James Warren - Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development, Ultragenyx Gene Therapy

9:30am - 10:25am55 mins

Networking Break

Networking Refreshment Break in Poster & Exhibit Hall

9:40am - 10:00am20 mins

BPI Theatre

Simplifying Upstream Process Intensification with an Optimized Cell Retention Solution

Haley Matthews - Applications Engineer II, MilliporeSigma

10:00am - 10:20am20 mins

BPI Theatre

Introduction of 2nd generation of Cobetter virus removal filters PES-Plus

Yingqing Huang, PhD - Managing Director, Cobetter North America Inc

10:25am - 10:30am5 mins

Cell Line Development & Engineering

Chairperson's Remarks

Barbara Tevelev - Senior Scientist Molecular Discovery, Pfizer

10:25am - 10:30am5 mins

Cell Culture

Chairperson's Remarks

10:25am - 10:30am5 mins

Recovery & Purification

Chairperson's Remarks

10:25am - 10:30am5 mins

Manufacturing Strategy & Bioprocessing 4.0

Chairperson's Remarks

Swapnil Bhargava - Senior Vice President, CMC Development and GMP Manufacturing, AbCellera

10:25am - 10:30am5 mins

Cell & Gene Therapy Manufacturing

Chairperson's Remarks

Justin Skoble - Vice President of Technical Operations, Caribou Biosciences

10:25am - 10:30am5 mins

Next Generation CAR & T Cell Therapies

Chairperson's Remarks

10:25am - 10:35am10 mins

BPI Theatre

Technology Showcase – A Representative from Trince Bio

10:30am - 11:00am30 mins

Cell Line Development & Engineering

Patching Automation Gaps in Cell Line Development Workflows

Anna Venne - Associate Scientist III, Biogen

10:30am - 11:00am30 mins

Cell Culture

Strategy for Upstream Process Data Integration

Curtis Lin, PhD - Associate Director, Seattle Genetics

10:30am - 11:00am30 mins

Recovery & Purification

Method Development for Optimal Host Cell Protein Monitoring

Olivier Ducoudret, PhD - Senior Scientist, Macrogenics

10:30am - 11:00am30 mins

Manufacturing Strategy & Bioprocessing 4.0

Accelerating process development with machine-learning, hybrid modeling and digital twins

Michael Sokolov - COO, DataHow

10:30am - 11:00am30 mins

Cell & Gene Therapy Manufacturing

Keynote: Next Generation Process Development and Manufacturing for Gene Therapies – Improving Efficiencies and Reducing Cost of Goods

Raghu Shivappa - Vice President, Head of Global Biologics and Gene Therapy Process Development, Takeda

10:30am - 11:00am30 mins

Next Generation CAR & T Cell Therapies

ELiPSE-1: FIH trial of CNTY-101, an allo-evasion equipped CAR-iNK product for CD19 positive NHL

Nikolaus Trede - Vice President of Early Clinical Development, Century Theaputics, Inc.

10:35am - 10:45am10 mins

BPI Theatre

Technology Showcase – A Representative from Pathoquest

10:45am - 10:50am5 mins

BPI Theatre

Break

10:50am - 11:30am40 mins

BPI Theatre

Panel Discussion: How Manufacturing Operations can have a Meaningful Impact on Corporate Sustainability Commitments?

11:00am - 11:30am30 mins

Cell Line Development & Engineering

Evaluating Use of Stable Pool or Pool of Clones for Tox Production to Enable Speed to Clinic

Jessica Pan - Associate Principal Scientist, Merck

11:00am - 11:30am30 mins

Cell Culture

Analysis of Covid Spike Protein Variants with a Novel Fluorescent Label

Michael Butler, Ph.D. - Principal Investigator, Cell Technology, National Institute of Bioprocessing Research & Training (NIBRT)

11:00am - 11:30am30 mins

Recovery & Purification

Understanding HCP Contamination

Abraham Lenhoff - Allan P. Colburn Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware

11:00am - 11:30am30 mins

Manufacturing Strategy & Bioprocessing 4.0

End-End Digital Twins for Manufacturing

Christoph Herwig - Head Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Chemical Engineering, TU Wien, Austria

11:00am - 11:30am30 mins

Cell & Gene Therapy Manufacturing

The Path to Commercialization of an Allogeneic Stem Cell Therapy: a MultiStem© Perspective

Senthil Ranganathan - Vice President, Technical Operations, Athersys

11:00am - 11:30am30 mins

Next Generation CAR & T Cell Therapies

Multi-Antigen Targeting and Redirection with a Novel Universal Immune Receptor

Daniel Shelly, PhD - Vice President Business Development and Alliances, Prescient Therapeutics

11:30am - 12:00pm30 mins

Cell Line Development & Engineering

Scientific Track Presentation - A Representative from Berkeley Lights

11:30am - 12:00pm30 mins

Cell Culture

Thermo Scientific™ DynaSpin™ Single-Use Centrifuge: Simplified, Automated, Intensified Processing—a Data–Rich Solution to Harvest Scale Out

Jordan Cobia - Product Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific

11:30am - 12:00pm30 mins

Recovery & Purification

Scientific Track Presentation: A Representative from Beckman Coulter

11:30am - 12:00pm30 mins

Manufacturing Strategy & Bioprocessing 4.0

Scientific Track Presentation: A Representative from Novilytic

11:30am - 12:00pm30 mins

Cell & Gene Therapy Manufacturing

Scientific Track Presentation - A Representative from Sartorius

11:35am - 11:55am20 mins

BPI Theatre

BPI TV Interview with c-Lecta

12:00pm - 1:25pm85 mins

Lunch

Luncheon in the Poster & Exhibit Hall

12:00pm - 12:05pm5 mins

BPI Theatre

Break

12:05pm - 12:10pm5 mins

BPI Theatre

Technology Showcase: A Representative from CerCell

12:10pm - 12:20pm10 mins

BPI Theatre

Technology Showcase: A Representative from BASF

12:20pm - 12:30pm10 mins

BPI Theatre

Technology Showcase

12:30pm - 12:40pm10 mins

BPI Theatre

Technology Showcase

12:40pm - 1:15pm35 mins

BPI Theatre

Break

1:15pm - 1:25pm10 mins

BPI Theatre

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Bioprocessing Sector

1:25pm - 1:30pm5 mins

Cell Line Development & Engineering

Chairperson's Remarks

Barbara Tevelev - Senior Scientist Molecular Discovery, Pfizer

1:25pm - 1:30pm5 mins

Cell Culture

Chairperson's Remarks

1:25pm - 1:30pm5 mins

Recovery & Purification

Chairperson's Remarks

1:25pm - 1:30pm5 mins

Manufacturing Strategy & Bioprocessing 4.0

Chairperson's Remarks

Swapnil Bhargava - Senior Vice President, CMC Development and GMP Manufacturing, AbCellera

1:25pm - 1:30pm5 mins

Cell & Gene Therapy Manufacturing

Chairperson's Remarks

Justin Skoble - Vice President of Technical Operations, Caribou Biosciences

1:25pm - 1:30pm5 mins

Next Generation CAR & T Cell Therapies

Chairperson's Remarks

1:25pm - 1:55pm30 mins

BPI Theatre

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Bioprocessing Sector Continued

1:30pm - 2:00pm30 mins

Cell Line Development & Engineering

Accelerate FIH Timeline for Biologics Pipeline Development with Berkeley Lights Beacon Technology

Falguni Patel - Senior Scientist II, Cell Line Development Group BioProcess Development, Abbvie

1:30pm - 2:00pm30 mins

Cell Culture

End-To-End Data Paradigm for Cell Line Development

Jasmine Tat - Senior Associate Data Scientist, Amgen

1:30pm - 2:00pm30 mins

Recovery & Purification

Water Conservation and Recycling Strategies in Bioprocessing

Alois Jungbauer - Professor, Institute of Bioprocess Science and Engineering Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna

1:30pm - 2:00pm30 mins

Manufacturing Strategy & Bioprocessing 4.0

Process Analytical Technology and its role in Next Generation Manufacturing

Jeremy Springall - Associate Director, Astrazeneca

1:30pm - 2:00pm30 mins

Cell & Gene Therapy Manufacturing

Overcoming the Scale Up and Manufacturing Challenges of Next Generation “Off the Shelf” Allogeneic Cell Therapies

Keith Wilson - Director, Manufacturing Science and Technology, Century Therapeutics, Inc., USA

1:30pm - 2:00pm30 mins

Next Generation CAR & T Cell Therapies

Artificial Membrane Binding Proteins: Precision Membrane Engineering of Cell Therapy for Cancer

Kevin Brady, PhD - Vice President, Preclinical, Cytoseek

1:55pm - 2:00pm5 mins

BPI Theatre

Break

2:00pm - 2:30pm30 mins

Cell Line Development & Engineering

Production of afucosylated antibodies in CHO cells by co-expression of an anti-FUT8 intrabody

Laurence Delafosse - Team Lead - Rapid Protein Production, Human Health Therapeutics, Research Center of the National Research Council of Canada

2:00pm - 2:30pm30 mins

Cell Culture

Cell Line Engineering to Improve Purification of Bifunctional Fc Fusion Proteins

Vishruti Makani - Associate Director – CLD and R&D Support, Shattuck Labs, Inc.

2:00pm - 2:30pm30 mins

Recovery & Purification

Resin Reuse Across Products

Denise Tanis - Senior Engineer, Alexion Pharmaceuticals

2:00pm - 2:30pm30 mins

Manufacturing Strategy & Bioprocessing 4.0

Management of Raw Materials in Response to Disruptions

Shreya Munjal - Engineer in Global MSAT and Engineering, Genentech

2:00pm - 2:30pm30 mins

Cell & Gene Therapy Manufacturing

Case Study: iPSC Based Cell Therapies - Tackling Scale Up, GMP and Downstream Hurdles

Richard Anderson - Senior Director, Fate Therapeutics Inc

2:00pm - 2:30pm30 mins

Next Generation CAR & T Cell Therapies

Improving outcomes for solid tumour treatment using allogeneic CAR-TCR-Ts

Devon Shedlock - Chief Scientific Officer, Cell Therapy, Poseida Therapeutics

2:00pm - 2:40pm40 mins

BPI Theatre

Panel Discussion: Security of Supply Chain

2:30pm - 3:00pm30 mins

Cell Line Development & Engineering

Increased Efficiency of Clonal Selection and Shortened CLD Workflows with Solentim ICON

Kayla Bean, PhD - Senior Scientist, Cell Line Development, AGC Biologics

2:30pm - 3:00pm30 mins

Cell Culture

Scientific Track Presentation

2:30pm - 3:00pm30 mins

Recovery & Purification

Scientific Track Presentation - A Representative from 3M

2:30pm - 3:00pm30 mins

Manufacturing Strategy & Bioprocessing 4.0

Economic Analyses of Build vs Buy vs Blend Options for Early Phase Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing

Ravi Samavedam - Chief Innovation Officer (CINO), Azzur Group

2:30pm - 3:00pm30 mins

Cell & Gene Therapy Manufacturing

Scientific Track Presentation

2:30pm - 3:00pm30 mins

Next Generation CAR & T Cell Therapies

Scientific Track Presentation

2:40pm - 3:00pm20 mins

BPI Theatre

Break

3:00pm - 4:00pm60 mins

Networking Break

Networking Refreshment Break in the Exhibit & Poster Hall

3:05pm - 3:15pm10 mins

BPI Theatre

Technology Showcase

3:15pm - 3:25pm10 mins

BPI Theatre

Technology Showcase

3:25pm - 3:35pm10 mins

BPI Theatre

Technology Showcase

3:35pm - 3:55pm20 mins

BPI Theatre

Technology Showcase

3:55pm - 4:00pm5 mins

BPI Theatre

Break

4:00pm - 4:30pm30 mins

Cell Line Development & Engineering

Cell Line Characterization for Cell Line Selection Using Next-Generation Sequencing and EpiGenetic Sequencing

Christina Tsai, PhD - Senior Scientist, IGM Biosciences

4:00pm - 4:30pm30 mins

Cell Culture

Feeding the Masses: Cultivated Meat Shifts the Bioprocess Paradigm to Edible Products at Unprecedented Volumes

Mark Juhas - Director, UPSIDE Foods

4:00pm - 4:30pm30 mins

Recovery & Purification

Smart Platform for Fast Development of Small- Scale Integrated Continuous Downstream Processes

Bernt Nilsson - Professor, Chemical Engineering, Lund University

4:00pm - 4:30pm30 mins

Manufacturing Strategy & Bioprocessing 4.0

Key Attributes and Intangible Considerations of Cell and Gene Therapy CDMO Selection by Innovator Companies

Joseph Rininger, Ph.D. - Managing Director, Cell and Gene Therapy, Latham Biopharma

4:00pm - 4:30pm30 mins

Cell & Gene Therapy Manufacturing

Genome Engineering Strategies for Allogeneic CAR-T Cell Therapies to Improve Efficacy and Durability

Justin Skoble - Vice President of Technical Operations, Caribou Biosciences

4:00pm - 4:30pm30 mins

Next Generation CAR & T Cell Therapies

Engineering T cells to overcome the tumor microenvironment

Jill Mooney - SVP, Research and Development, ElevateBio

4:00pm - 4:30pm30 mins

BPI Theatre

CIRM: Accelerating Cell and Gene Therapy Development in California

Shyam Patel - Senior Director of Business Development & Alliance Management, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

4:30pm - 5:00pm30 mins

Cell Line Development & Engineering

Applications of next generation sequencing to benefit the development and characterization of manufacturing Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell lines

Jie Zhu, Ph.D. - R&D Director, AstraZeneca

4:30pm - 5:00pm30 mins

Cell Culture

Cell Lines for Cultured Meat: What can we learn?

Lauran Madden, PhD - Chief Technology Officer, BlueNalu

4:30pm - 5:00pm30 mins

Recovery & Purification

Using Flow PPX for Continuous Processing

Aishwarya Ramanan - Senior Research Associate, Seattle Genetics

4:30pm - 5:00pm30 mins

Manufacturing Strategy & Bioprocessing 4.0

Please Visit Cell & Gene Therapy for this Session

4:30pm - 5:00pm30 mins

Cell & Gene Therapy Manufacturing

Panel Discussion: CGT CDMO Selection and Manufacturing Best Practices

Mia Wang - Former Senior Director, Technical Operations, Sana Biotechnology
Yuyi Shen, PhD - Sr. Dir, PD, MFG & Supply Chain, Abcuro
Joseph Rininger, Ph.D. - Managing Director, Cell and Gene Therapy, Latham Biopharma

4:30pm - 5:00pm30 mins

Next Generation CAR & T Cell Therapies

Potency enhancement of CAR Ts with new genetic tools and testing quickly in clinical trials

Eric Althoff Ph.D - Director of Business Development, Seattle Children's Therapeutics

5:00pm - 6:30pm90 mins

Outdoor Evening Drinks Reception

Attendee Deadline to Submit a Poster Abstract

Attendee Deadline to Submit a Poster Abstract

Main Conference - Day 2Wednesday, 1 March 2023 - PST/PDT (Pacific Daylight, GMT-7)

Main Conference - Day 2Wednesday, 1 March 2023 - PST/PDT (Pacific Daylight, GMT-7)

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