Who are past finalists and winners of the BioProcess International Awards?
Best Collaboration
2012: Upstream Processing
Finalists
- CHO Genome User Group – Genomic sequencing of the Chinese hamster genome database
- Xcellerex/ Pfenex/deltaDOT/BioPharm Services/Latham BioPharm Group – Xcellerex AMP program team (DARPA-AMP)
Winner: Refine Technology/GE Healthcare/SartoriusStedim Biotech – Worldwide supply and distribution agreements to develop novel filtration systems
2012: Downstream Processing
Finalists
- University of Applied Sciences Biberach/Boehringer Ingelheim/Rentschler Biotechnologie GmbH/Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – ProSep Ultra Plus chromatography media
- Validated Biosystems/City of Hope Medical Center (Beckman Research Institute)/Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging (Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLAs David Geffen School of Medicine)
Winner: GE Healthcare/BAC – New affinity-ligand-based chromatographic media
2012: Manufacturing
Finalists
- Merck/Medimmune – Trusted partner network (TPN): a capacity sharing strategy
- PDA/PDA Membership – An important interface between industry and regulators
Winner: NIBRT/Government, Industry, Academia – Driving process efficiencies, innovation, and complaince
2014 Finalists:
- Invetech/Janssen Research & Development – Scale up phase II process capacity to produce a phase III commercial product
- Promosome/GE Healthcare – Shorten cell line development and improve expression efficiencies for broad adoption
Winner: TAP Biosystems/Merck & Co. – Collaboration to develop a dual-use, fully automated, highly parallel bioreactor system
Excellence in Leadership (Thought Leader)
2012: Upstream Processing
Finalists
- Chetan T Goudar (Amgen) – A champion of systems biology
- Jerold Martin (Pall Life Sciences) – Industry spokesperson and single-use champion
Winner: Parrish Galliher (Xcellerex) – Technologist amd entrepreneur
2012: Downstream Processing
Finalists
- Duncan Low (Amgen) – Downstream processing pioneer
- Jerold Martin (Pall Life Sciences) – driving best practices for single-use adoption
Winner: Gunter Jagschies (GE Healthcare) – Visionary leader in pursuit of industrial excellence
2012: Manufacturing
Finalists
- Jim Akers (Akers, Kennedy & Assoc.) – building a foundation of aseptic processing
- Andrew Sinclair (BioPharm Services, Ltd.) – Developing product lifecycle management tools
Winner: Jerold Martin (Pall Life Sciences) – Driving a paradigm shift in biomanufacturing
2014 Finalists
- Lynn Bottone (Pfizer) – Oversight of all clinical and commercial manufacturing operations of specialty care biotechnology products
- Olivier Loeillot (GE Healthcare) – Established internal and external credibility to secure investment necessary to launch first generation modular biopharmaceutical factory
Winner: Robert Preti (Progenitor Cell Therapy) – founder and primary driver of company’s successful evolution into a leader in the cell therapy manufacturing industry
BPI Honors – Industry Champions
2014:
Lee Buckler – Founder and managing director, Cell Therapy Group
James Dean Vogel, Founder and director, The BioProcess Institute
Excellence in Facility Design or Retrofit
2014 Finalists:
- Vetter – German production facility operating one of the most effective filling lines currently available (March 2013)
- FujiFilm DioSynth – MCC facility in Billingham UK originally designed for MAb focus, has flexibility to be used for a wider range of customer-specific products
Winner: Gallus BioPharmaceuticals – Purchased manufacturing facility in St Louis MO and added to existing traditional development and manufacturing capabilities with installation of single-use biomanufacturing platform
Emerging Company
2014 Finalists
- BioCision – emerging leader in products that eliminate variability and improve standardization in temperature sensitive drug and biomaterial handling, storage, and transport.
- Horizon Discovery – supplies research tools to organizations engaged in genomics research and development of personalized medicines
Winner: ToleRaM Nanotech LLC – developed as a platform to synthesize and market novel delivery devices wherein antirejection drugs are encapsulated in a biologically inert nanoparticle device and delivered in a focused manner to a transplanted organ with triggered-release
Corporate Citizenship
2014 Finalists
- Biogen Idec – Zero waste to landfill goal
- Sigma-Aldrich – Committed to environmental stewardship, waste reduction, green chemistry and STEM education
Winner: Bayer Healthcare – Groundbreaking agreement with the Bay Area to meet broad community needs for resource reduction, recycling plans, auto use reduction, child care, affordable housing, as well as high-quality public education.
Best Upstream Technology Application
2012 Finalists
- GSK/Pfenex – Micro-24/Cellerator (from Microreactor Technologies)
- Therapeutic Proteins International – Single-use technology for production of bacterial proteins
Winner: Bayer Cell Culture Development Group (US) and Technology Services (Germany) – Optimizing cell retention using perfusion cultivation
2014 Finalists
- GE Healthcare Life Sciences – XDR-50 MO Fermentor System
- MaxCyte – STX Scalable Transfection System
Winner: TAP Biosystems/Merck & Co – AMBR 250
Best Downstream Technology Application
2012 Finalists:
- Amgen Technology – Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
- Human Genome Sciences – Optimization of a scale-up of ultrafiltration/diafiltration in clinical manufacturing
Winner: Percivia, LLC – Assessing Toyopearl brand GigaCap S-650M media (Tosoh Bioscience)
2014 Finalists:
- BioCision – BioT Temperature Stability Systems
- Disposable Lab – Allegro Single-use filling needles (Pall Life Sciences)
Winner: Natrix HD Membranes (Natrix Separations and Gallus BioPharmaceuticals)
Best Manufacturing Technology Application
2012 Finalists:
- Genzyme Corp – Data collection and analysis during preformulation of biotherapeutic proteins
- Vetter Pharma International GmbH – Clinical trial solutions for filling drug delivery systems
Winner: Colder Products Company – Steam-thru connections, pioneering technology for hybrid systems
Best Analytical Technology Application
2014 Finalists:
- Enzo Life Sciences/Amnis – ImageStreamX (ISX)
- SGS Life Sciences – SGS M-Scan Services
Winner: NanoTemper Technologies GmbH – Micro-Scale Thermophoresis (MST)