Applied Biosystems, a worldwide leader in life science technologies, offers POROS® 50 Micron Perfusion Chromatography products, today’s best-performing media for process scale bioseparations (info.appliedbiosystems.com/poros).  AB also provides rapid molecular methods for contaminant and impurity analysis in pharmaceutical manufacturing, featuring MicroSEQ® Identification and Detection Systems (www.microseq.com)

For more information, visit www.appliedbiosystems.com

BD Biosciences is a life sciences leader with more than 50 years of expertise in cell biology products and services. The Advanced Bioprocessing strategic platform developed products currently being used as critical components in the production of some of the most widely used drugs and vaccines on the global market today. BD Biosciences - Advanced Bioprocessing (BDB-AB) is playing a major role in biopharmaceutical drug production, enabling customers large and small to have a tremendous impact on the future of human healthcare. BDB-AB‘s novel portfolio of hydrolysates, cell culture media supplements and services is the optimal choice for your mammalian cell culture and bacterial fermentation bioprocessing needs.

The Boehringer Ingelheim group is one of the world’s 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. Headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany, it operates globally with 137 affiliates in 47 countries and nearly 38,500 employees. It is one of the leading companies for industrial customer manufacturing of Biopharmaceuticals by offering the entire production technology chain in development and production at its biopharmaceutical facilities in Biberach (Germany) and in Vienna (Austria).

GE Healthcare Life Sciences provides a broad range of products and services for biomolecule separations at all scales. Chief products include: • ÄKTAdesign™ chromatography systems and BioProcess™ media • Filtration systems and devices • Wave Bioreactor™ and mixers • Cell separation for isolating and purifying cells, viruses, and sub-cellular particles • Fast Trak™ BioPharma Services. Our products are used in the manufacture of the majority of all FDA-approved biopharmaceuticals on the market. GE Healthcare Life Sciences is a part of GE Healthcare, a General Electric company with more than 42,000 employees, providing transformational medical technologies that are shaping a new age of patient care.

Medicel introduces a novel bioreactor system for parallel cell cultivations, automatic sampling, in line analysis and rapid perturbations. The system is designed for the growing number of bioprocess applications which require complex cell cultivation and experimentation protocols including optimization of growth conditions, screening of cell strains, toxicology and systems biology.

Millipore is a Life Science leader providing cutting-edge technologies, tools, and services for bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. As a strategic partner, we collaborate with customers to confront the world's challenging human health issues. From research to development to production, our scientific expertise and innovative solutions help customers tackle their most complex problems and achieve their goals. Millipore Corporation is an S&P 500 company with more than 6,100 employees around 47 countries worldwide. Advancing Life Science Together™.

M-Scan is a world leader in contract analytical services and training based on mass spectrometry, chromatography and other protein and carbohydrate analytical techniques. We have 30 years experience in performing physicochemical characterisation of biotech products for research and regulatory submissions from four GLP/GMP accredited laboratories in the UK, USA, Switzerland and Germany.

Novasep is a leading partner for the life sciences industries and provides true performance solutions.

Novasep supplies process development services, process equipment and systems, custom synthesis and purification services, and active complex molecules (reagents, building blocks, generic APIs, therapeutic proteins, etc.).

Novasep constantly innovates to resolve customers’ challenges in obtaining pure complex molecules.

As user of its own technologies, Novasep understands customers’ challenges and shares its experience and know-how to provide them with the best solution.

www.novasep.com

Novozymes is the world leader in bioinnovation. Together with customers across a broad array of industries, we create tomorrow’s industrial biosolutions, improving our customers' business and the use of our planet's resources.

With over 700 products used in 130 countries, Novozymes’ bioinnovations improve industrial performance and safeguard the world’s resources by offering superior and sustainable solutions for tomorrow’s ever-changing marketplace.

In pharmaceutical and bioprocess manufacturing, Pall offers full capability in chromatography and filtration. Pall’s direct and tangential flow filtration technologies are used for biomass removal, clarification, particulate and bioburden reduction, prefiltration, sterile filtration of liquids and gases, mycoplasma, prion and virus clearance, endotoxin and DNA removal, and biomolecule purification and concentration. Products range from small laboratory scale devices to large automated systems and filter test instruments.

Pall’s chromatography range includes membrane chromatography products already used on licensed products in the US and Europe, chromatography columns ranging from small pilot to fully engineered state of the art columns with fully automated axial compression packing up to 2.3 meters, packing and control systems, and the full range of BioSepra®media for ion exchange, affinity, hydroxyapatite, hydrophobic charge induction and size exclusion chromatography.

Pall offers process filtration, separation and purification development, pilot and manufacturing equipment and validation services together with pre-inspection reviews, troubleshooting consultancy, training, contamination analysis and other technical assistance.

Email:  biotech@pall.com
www.pall.com

Sartorius Stedim Biotech is a leading provider of cutting-edge equipment and services for the development, quality assurance and production processes of the biopharmaceutical industry. Our integrated solutions covering fermentation, filtration, purification, fluid management and lab technologies are supporting the biopharmaceutical industry around the world to develop and produce drugs safety, timely and economically. For next generation processes, we focus on single-use technologies and added value services to meet upcoming requirements of the industry we serve. Strongly rooted, in the scientific community and closely allied with customers and technology partners, we are dedicated to our philosophy of “Turning science into solutions”.

Headquartered in Aubagne, France, Sartorius Stedim Biotech is listed on the Eurolist of Euronext Paris. With its own manufacturing and sales companies in Europe, North America and Asia, Sartorius Stedim Biotech enjoys a worldwide presence. Its key manufacturing and R&D location is in Germany. The company employs over 2,200 people, and in 2006 earned pro forma sales revenue of more than 360 million euros.

Thermo Scientific HyClone Cell Culture products and BioProcessing systems advance productivity for life-science research and protein-based drug production. Widely known as the premier supplier of quality sera for cell culture, HyClone classical media, serum-free and protein-free media, process liquids and flexible, single-use BioProcess Container systems provide technology and innovation for your research.

Avacta Analytical provides analytical outsourcing services to the bio industries. Specialising in biophysical analysis, spectroscopy and microscopy Avacta Analytical has brought the analysis of protein higher order structure to a new level. Working to GLP standards our analytical techniques have been successfully applied to all stages of a products lifecycle. To complement our biophysical service we also provide a range of protein chemistry and molecular biology services.

BioProcess International provides the biotechnology industry with peer-reviewed editorial necessary to successfully drive products through the biopharmaceutical, biovaccine and biodiagnostic development process. Our BPA audited circulation consists of 30,022 mid-to-upper managers working in all phases of the biotherapeutic development in the US, Europe and Canada.

For more information visit: www.bioprocessintl.com

The Boehringer Ingelheim group is one of the world’s 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. Headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany, it operates globally with 137 affiliates in 47 countries and nearly 38,500 employees. It is one of the leading companies for industrial customer manufacturing of Biopharmaceuticals by offering the entire production technology chain in development and production at its biopharmaceutical facilities in Biberach (Germany) and in Vienna (Austria).

Covance – one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive drug development services companies – has the people, global resources, and problem-solving culture to respond to pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients’ toughest drug development challenges.

Since 1987, ProMetic BioSciences Ltd bioseparation technologies, its proprietary affinity adsorbents (off-the shelf and Custom) and its Mimetic Ligand™ purification platform have been used by major biopharmaceutical manufacturers worldwide. The chemical diversity of PBL's synthetic ligand libraries allows application to almost any target protein and provides extremely robust adsorbents which may be used in harsh processing regimes (e.g. 1M NaOH) and multiple process cycles, even with crude process streams.

PBL's affinity technology may be used in a variety of different ways including the capture of targeted proteins directly from biological source material, the highly selective separation of target protein from other components, or the removal of specific contaminants to provide increased yields, higher purities and reduced cost of goods.

PBL has applied it's protein purification technology to a wide variety of applications including Antibody & Antibody Fragments, Albumin & Albumin Fusion Proteins, Glycoprotein Separation, Protease Separation; Plasma Proteins and Pathogen Reduction.