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Trends and know-how in biotech and downstream purification.

New biopharmaceuticals on the horizon: A purification challenge

In 1982 a new type of pharmaceutical appeared on the market. Recombinant human insulin was approved for human therapeutic use and is generally acknowledged as the first “biopharmaceutical” or...

How prepacked chromatography columns help you scale up biomanufacturing faster

Chromatography is a popular purification technique used in biomanufacturing to separate and isolate your target biomolecule from the presence of impurities. To scale up the biomanufacturing process...

Pharma 4.0: Revolutionizing the Pharmaceutical Industry

Pharma 4.0, the latest buzzword in the pharmaceutical industry, has the potential to transform the industry by making the drug development process faster, more efficient, and more patient-centric. By...

Interview with Ryan MacDougall of Lonza

At BPI in Boston this September we were lucky enough to get to talk to Ryan MacDougall of Lonza and to hear about the BioPhorum group that he was representing at the conference.

Interview with Tom Ransohoff of Resilience

Another of the great meetings we had at BPI in Boston was with Tom Ransohoff of the biomanufacturing partner, Resilience and he told us something about their business and the changes he’s seen since...

Interview with Andrew Lees of FinaBio

At the BioProcess International in Boston 27-30 Sept we had the pleasure to talk to Andrew Lees, founder of Fina Biosolutions and to hear a little about their role in the field of vaccine development.

Interview with Jean Bender

At BPI Boston this year we were honored to talk to Jean Bender who has enormous experience in process development, antibodies and the industry in general.

Interview with Slim Chiha of Prosion Therapeutics

At the 2022 ACHEMA conference we had the pleasure of getting to talk to Slim Chiha, CEO and founder of Prosion Therapeutics who was participating in the Start-Up Challenge Award.

Interview with Wolfgang Winter on Pharma 4.0

We talked to Wolfgang Winter, Informatics Platform R&D Director at Agilent after his very interesting talk on the current status of Pharma 4.0 at the 2022 ACHEMA conference.

QuickTip #10: Avoiding loss of activity of Ni charged IMAC columns

Have you experienced how Nickel-charged chromatography columns used for purifying His-tagged proteins lose their blue color, become a bit yellow and can’t bind your protein anymore? It can happen...