Invited Speakers
2020
- Prof Dr José (Joe) Santos
Innovation: Composing Across Confines
March 16th 2020
2019
- Prof Dr Brandon DeKosky
Large-scale functional analysis of natively paired antibody heavy light chain repertoires
November 20th 2019 - Prof Dr José Manuel Otero
Disruptive engineering of viral immunotherapies to create a world free of cancer
October 23rd 2019 - Prof Dr Renata Stripecke
Re-Generando: Gene modified dendritic cells and CAR-T cells to rebuild the immune system
October 8th 2019 - Prof Dr Harald Dinter
Challenges of the pharmaceutical industry and its implications for collaborators
May 13th 2019 - Prof Dr Joost Sluijter
Therapeutics for myocardial repair – moving forward?
September 14th 2018
2018
- Dr. Jörg Weiske, Head of Protein Technologies 1, Research & Development, Pharmaceuticals at Bayer AG
Cellular Thermal Shift Assay (CETSA) - Case study @ Protein Technologies (Bayer AG)
May 17th 2018 - Professor Tom L. Blundell, Cambridge University, UK
Structure-guided Fragment-based Drug Discovery for Cancer and Tuberculosis: Fighting the Emergence of Resistance - Prof. Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology, BOKU, Vienna, Austria
Separation and Quantification of Virus-like Particles from other extra cellular particles
March 15th 2018 - David Naveh, Ph.D., MBA, CEO Hemogem, ex- VP and ex-CTO of Bayer Biological Products Worldwide
Development of Biological Therapeutics for Health and Financial Value Creation - The Pharma Perspective
March 7th 2018 - Monique M. van Oers, Laboratory of Virology, Wagninngen University, the Netherlands
Proteins Required for Baculovirus Particle Formation: Relevance for the Development of a Baculovirion-Free Expression System
March 7th 2018 - Professor Mike Betenbaugh, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Glycoengineering in CHO cells: Glyco Control-Inside and Out
February 5th 2018 - Andreas Busch, Head of Drug Discovery - Bayer Pharmaceuticals
Addressing unmet medical needs: Key drivers for Drug Discovery at Bayer
January 8th 2018 - Dr. Manel Cascalló, VCN Biosciences SL, Spain
Oncolytic adenoviruses expressing hyaluronidase: from bench to patients
January 8th 2018 - Dr. Eda Machado, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee USA
Regulated lysosomal exocytosis, an unconventional pathway in cancer progression
January 8th 2018 - Dr. Andreas Wilmen, Protein Engineering & Assays 2, Bayer AG
Cardiovascular Research at Bayer
January 8th 2018 - Dr Hansjörg Hauser, Department of Scientific Strategy, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI)
Viral defence by interferons: A closer look to single cells in populations
January 8th 2018
2017
- William M. Miller, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University Evanston, USA
A Uniform-Shear-Rate Microfluidic Bioreactor for Real-Time Analysis of Proplatelet Formation and Rapidly-Released Platelets
June 21st 2017 - Alain Bernard, Biopharma Executive Advisor, Independent advisor to pharma executives · Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon
Knowledge Management
April 12th 2017 - Felipe Prosper, Director of Hematology and Cell Therapy, Clinica Universidad de Navarra
Drug and cell delivery systems for cardiac repair
February 7th 2017 - Simone Kardinahl, Head of Cell & Protein Sciences, Biologics Research, Bayer AG
DD Biologics – an overview on challenges and opportunities
January 31st 2017
2016
- Brian Murphy, Celgene Cellular Therapeutics, USA
Quality by Design and Phase Appropriate Development for Cell Therapies
November 28th 2016 - Thorsten Lorenz, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
Developability Assessment of therapeutic Antibodies - A concept for early Lead Selection
May 31st 2016 - Katey Owen, Deputy Director for Vaccines Development (CMC), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Vaccine development and manufacturing for those most in need of vaccines
April 29th 2016
2015
- Philippe Couttet, Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland
microRNAs as biomarker of drug-induced tissue injury
December 3rd 2015 - Uwe Marx, CEO, TissUse GmbH
Humans-on-a-chip” – a paradigm shift in substance testing?!
November 17th 2015 - Eytan Abraham, Head of Cell Therapy Research & Technology, Lonza, USA
Stem Cells and Cell Therapy at LONZA
July 13th 2015 - Hitto Kaufmann, Vice President Technology and Development at Sanofi Biologics, Germany
Innovation in Biologics Manufacturing
May 27th 2015 - Thomas Pietzonka, NIBR Biologics Center, Basel
Changing the Practice of Medicine - Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
May 4th 2015 - Matthias Frech, MERCK KGaA
Biophysical Methods in Drug Discovery: Combination is Key. The Project Kinetics for Drug Discovery
February 27th 2015 - Roger-Marc Nicoud, NOVASEP HOLDING S.A.S., FRANCE
The amazing ability of continuous chromatography to adapt to a moving environment
February 12th 2015
2014
- Carlos Augusto Pereira, Instituto Butantan, Laboratorio de Imunologia Viral, São Paulo, Brazil
Vectors carrying heterologous RNA for designing new viral vaccines
October 23rd 2014 - Christof von Kalle, MD, PhD, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg
Translational Oncology – the National Center for Tumor Diseases
October 17th 2014 - Rene Hoet, Heiner Apeler, Lars Linden, Beate Müller-Tiemann, BAYER HEALTHCARE, Global Biologics, Germany
Protein Biopharmaceuticals @ Bayer: From Discovery to Development
July 3rd 2014 - Vish Nene, THE INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE (ILRI), NAIROBI - KENYA
The ILRI Vaccine Biosciences program and improved vaccines for the control of East Coast fever in cattle
May 16th 2014
2013
- Marc Peschanski, I-STEM (INSERM/UEVE 861, AFM), Evry – France
Harnessing pluripotent stem cells for pharmacology
July 18th 2013
2012
- Muntasir Mamun Majumder, FIMM, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland
An individualized system medicine platform to guide treatment decisions for therapy-resistant Acute Myeloid Leukemia
June 21st 2012 - Joachim Klein, Technische Universtat Braunschweig, Germany (jUb.), President, Braunschweig Academy of Sciences, Germany
Not all chemicals are created equal: The potential of biobased processes and products
June 1st 2012
2011
- John G. Aunins, Visiting Professor, ITQB, Merck Sharp & Dohme, West Point, New Jersey, USA
Some Perspectives on Vaccines, Biologicals, and the Pharmaceutical Industry
November 15th 2011 - Uwe Marx & Mark Rosowski, Technische Universität Berlin, Institute of Biotechnology - Department of Medical Biotechnology
Vascularized multi-organ systems – the next level of engineering human biology in vitro
August 4th 2011 - Isabelle Knott, Director, Head of Cell Culture Development, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals S.A., Rixensart, Belgium
Cervarix: first human vaccine manufactured with baculovirus expression system
July 12th 2011 - Héla Kallel, Head, Bioprocess Development Unit, Institut Pasteur de Tunis
Bioprocess development activities at Institut Pasteur of Tunis
June 28th 2011 - Regina Grillari, PhD, Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria
The importance of peeing earnest: urine derived cells as model systems in biology and biomedicine
June 17th 2011 - Christian Manzke & Etienne Evrard MD, Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH – B. Braun AG -Goettingen / Melsungen
Bioprocess integrated solutions
Abril 27th 2011 - Brian Lee MD, President, PBS Biotech, Inc, California, EUA
Mixing methodologies in single use bioreactors - A comparative analysis of consistency across scale
Abril 4th 2011 - Aleš Štrancar MD PhD, BIA Separations, Ljubljana
Monolithic chromatography supports – technology platform for the analysis and production of new generation of drug candidates like plasmid DNA and viral vector particles
March 21st 2011 - Wilfried Bakker MD, Netherlands Vaccine Institute (NVI/RIVM)
Development and Technology Transfer for Viral Vaccines
March 15th 2011 - Leo van der Pol MD PhD, Netherlands Vaccine Institute (NVI/RIVM)
Overview of Vaccine Process Development at RIVM
March 15th 2011 - Marc Peschanski MD, Scientific Director, Institute for Stem Cell Therapy and Exploration of Monogenic Diseases (I-STEM, INSERM/UEVE) Evry, France
Pathological modeling, drug discovery and toxicity testing using pluripotent stem cells
March 2nd 2011 - Leo van der Pol MD
Overview of Vaccine Process Development at RIVM
2011
2010
- Nigel Jenkins, National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology, Ireland
Quality considerations for the production of biopharmaceuticals
February 2nd 2010 - Hagen von Briesen, Fraunhofer-Institute for Biomedical Engineering
Global HIV Vaccine Research Cryorepository - GHRC
January 29th 2010
2009
- Judy Lieberman, Immune Disease Institute and Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, Dept of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Micromanaging cell growth and differentiation
December 16th, 2009 - Octavio T. Ramírez, Departamento de Medicina Molecular y Bioprocesos, Instituto de Biotecnología Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Bioreactor Scale-Down Studies of Temperature-Inducible Recombinant Protein Production in E. coli
November 23th, 2009 - Kenneth Lundstrom, PanTherapeutics, Lausanne, Switzerland
Viral Vectors in Gene Therapy: Special Emphasis on Alphaviruses
March 11th, 2009 - Kenneth Lundstrom, PanTherapeutics, Lausanne, Switzerland
Expression of GPCRs in Drug Discovery and Structural Biology
March 10th, 2009 - Catherine Brenner Jan, DR CNRS, Faculté de Pharmacie, Lausanne, Switzerland
Signalisation et physiopathologie cardiaque INSERM U769
February 2009
2008
- Anna Price, In vitro Toxicology Unit, European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods, Institute of Health and Consumer Protection, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA), Italy
Re-aggregated brain cell culture as a sensitive in vitro model to evaluate developmental/adult neurotoxicity: application for regulatory requirements
October 28th, 2008 - Dr. Ing. Reiner Luttmann, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Research Center of Bioprocess Engineering and Analytical Techniques
A comprehensive study in optimal production of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients with Pichia pastoris
September 12th, 2008 - Manuel Cánovas, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology B. Faculty of Chemistry. University of Murcia
Bioprocess Optimization By Using Systems Biology
September 11th, 2008 - Matthew Croughan, Amgen Bioprocessing Center, Keck Graduate Institute (KGI), Claremont, CA
The Silver Anniversary of Clinical Protein Production from Recombinant CHO Cell Culture
June 9th, 2008
Other presentations
- Carlos A. Pereira, Univ. Strasbourg, França and Instituto Butantan, Brasil
Approaches for preparation of viral antigens from mammalian and insect cells - John Aunins, MERCK & CO, Philadelphia, EUA and ITQB/UNL, Portugal
Adenovirus-vectored HIV vaccine development - Hansjörg Hauser, GBF and Univ. Braunschweig, Germany
Cancer immune therapy using genetically modified dendritic cells - Eric J. Kremer, CNRS-UMR, France
- Ursula Sonnewald, Pharmacology & Toxicology Medical School Trondheim, Norway
- Uwe Gottschalk, Sartorius AG, Germany
- Heiko Zimmermann, Fraunhofer IBMT, Germany
- Catherine Brenner, CNRS-UMR, France
- Kenneth Lundstrom, PanTherapeutics, Switzerland
- Brian Kelley, Genentech, USA
- Laura Palomares, México