This podcast features: Frances DeGrazio
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 Daily Archives
Use and Optimization of Chemically Defined Media Supplements in Mammalian Cell Culture Processes
The manufacture of biological therapeutics requires a recombinant cell line, a media system and process to produce the therapeutic, and a purification process. BD Advanced Bioprocessing specializes in the media system to produce the therapeutic, including cell culture media and a variety of different types of supplementation.There are many types of supplementation, from animal-origin and animal-free hydrolysates to chemically defined, and each biopharma needs to find the best supplementation for their systems’ requirements.
Chemically defined media supplementation has many benefits such as lot-to-lot consistency and reduction/elimination of the risk of animal-origin materials. However, to get optimal performance these supplements are not always as forgiving as a full-bodied hydrolysate.
This webinar will use the newly commercialized BD CD Resurgeâ„¢ supplements as a case example on how to use and optimize CD supplements in mammalian cell culture processes.
Reducing the Host Cell DNA Quantitation Bottleneck: Approaches for Improved Sample Preparation and Throughput
The removal of impurities arising from host cells used for the production of biopharmaceutical products is a crucial step in the purification process. Regulatory guidance for products produced in cell culture specifies that residual host cell DNA content in the final product should be as low as possible. Because of the low sample throughput typical of most quantitative DNA assays, host-cell DNA quantitation can become an analytical bottleneck during process characterization.
In this webcast, speakers will discuss a qPCR-based system for highly sensitive, accurate quantitation of residual host-cell DNA from a variety of cellular production systems, including Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO), E. coli and Vero cells. Case studies will be presented that demonstrate DNA recovery from highly complex test sample matrices, typical of those in biopharmaceutical manufacturing environments. Options for automated sample preparation, testing results from samples typical of a monoclonal antibody purification process and results from an external validation study, executed according to ICH guidelines, will also be reviewed.