On 18 October 2018, BPI presented a free “Ask the Expert” webinar with Jamie Freeman, a bioproduction product manager at Horizon Discovery. His company is developing a whole-genome screen using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) for improving the capacity of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells in biomanufacturing. Freeman’s Presentation Freeman described the screening approach that Horizon developed to improve its own CHO cells. It also may be used to improve other such cell lines for biomanufacturing. Founded 11…

On 20 September 2018, Jiali Liao (principal scientist in process chromatography R&D at Bio-Rad Laboratories) led a BPI “Ask the Expert” webinar introducing the high-performance, high-capacity Nuvia HP-Q Anion Exchange Resin, which can be used for purifying large biomolecules. Liao’s Presentation Purifying large biomolecules — e.g., plasma proteins, immunoglobulins, viruses, virus-like particles (VLPs), and PEGylated proteins — can be difficult. Their size makes for slow diffusion through the pores of traditional chromatography resins and poor mass-transfer kinetics, which decreases binding…