Author Archives: Siddhartha Jain Bernhard M. Schilling Abhinav A. Shukla

Determining the Effect of Raw Materials on Manufacturing-Scale Cell-Culture Performance

Large-scale cell culture production processes routinely involve multicomponent cell culture media formulations including both chemically defined raw materials and complex raw materials such as hydrolysates (1). Even minor variations in the compositions of either can lead to variability in protein productivity or product quality. That often persists despite the use of a raw material lot-blending strategy at large scales to “average out” raw material trends. And a raw material lot-blending strategy can makes it more difficult to identify which single…