Sponsors

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.

GE Healthcare Bio-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 Biosciences 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.

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™.

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.

Thermo Scientific represents Thermo Fisher Scientific’s broad range of high-end analytical instruments, chemistry and consumable supplies, laboratory equipment, software and services that enable integrated laboratory workflow solutions. Thermo Scientific is the new name for trusted brands: Pierce, Dharmacon and HyClone.

HyClone, now sold as Thermo Scientific, offers researchers premium quality classical and serum-free media, sera and FBS replacements, reagents, buffers, WFI-quality water and single-use BioProcess Container Systems? for handling large and small volumes of sterile liquids and powders.

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).

Bioresearch Online

BioResearch Online is a presentation website which over 470,000 unique users across the world accessed for large molecule research, development, and production of Biopharmaceuticals.  Visit BioresearchOnline.com today for information and news on emerging technologies, manufacturing, and development trends.  BioResearch Online is BioPharm.

Applied Biosystems is the leading supplier of life science technologies.
Applied Biosystems POROS® 50 micron Perfusion Chromatography® products is today’s best performing chromatographic media for process scale bioseparations. These rigid robust particles enable high-resolution separations with 2-3x the throughput of conventional soft gel media products. They are easier to handle and pack and offer outstanding cleanability.

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.

DSM Biologics in partnership with Crucell N.V., offers the PER.C6® human cell line production platform for recombinant proteins and monoclonal antibodies. The combination of the PER.C6® platform, DSM’s manufacturing and Crucell’s clone generation services provide companies with a turn-key biologic manufacturing solution reducing cost, risk and time to market.

The automated protein quantification system, Gyrolab® Workstation – enables more effective development and quality control of protein-based therapeutics. Gyrolab® has superior performance in terms of data quality, savings in time and labour compared to current approaches. Bioprocess assays, immunogenicity (ADA) and pharmacokinetics are carried out with ease on Gyrolab®.

Novasep Process covers the special needs of Pharmaceutical, Biopharmaceutical and Industrial Biotech markets. Novasep Process provides turn-key process solutions from laboratory to industrial scale using chromatography, crystallisation, adsorption and filtration membranes.

Pall Corporation is the global leader in the rapidly growing field of filtration, separations and purification, especially in the biopharmaceutical industry for the production of biotech and biopharmaceutical products. Pall's Life Sciences Group is fully integrated to offer product lines that start in the laboratory, extending into drug development, process scale up, through to full drug manufacturing production and patient delivery

Protagen is a leading provider of products, services and software solutions for protein research. Operating internationally to provide customers with products and services of the highest quality, Protagen has offices in Dortmund, Germany and New Jersey, USA. The Company has a decade of experience in applying the most advanced protein research tools and techniques also under GMP to improve the drug development process.

ATMI LifeSciences strives to be the source of process efficiency to its biopharmaceutical customers, providing a broad range of proprietary disposable storage, mixing and bioreactor technology solutions that maximize product integrity while optimizing manufacturing cost.

With the recent acquisition of Levtech, Inc., a market-leading provider of disposable mixing technologies to the biopharma industry, ATMI LifeSciences is further extending its disposable technologies market leadership.

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.

BioProcess International

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 30,027 mid-to-upper managers working in all phases of the biotherapeutic development in the US, Europe and Canada. 

Meso Scale Discovery (MSD®) develops and markets solutions for singleplex and multiplex biological assays, including assays for metabolic biomarkers, cytokines and phosphoproteins. MSD's platform is based on MULTI-ARRAY® technology, a proprietary combination of patterned arrays and electrochemiluminescence detection, enabling large numbers of measurements with exceptional sensitivity, wide dynamic range and convenience.