Author Archives: Tim Schroeder

Automated Parallel Chromatography in Downstream Process Development

          The demand for biopharmaceutical products, in particular, monoclonal antibodies (MAbs), is rapidly increasing during recent years. The necessity for pharmaceutical companies of being first to market combined with the need to cut development costs makes the application for high-throughput screening (HTS) techniques and tools in downstream process development indispensable. Atoll’s 96 MediaScout® RoboColumn® array together with Tecan’s Freedom EVO® liquid handling workstation enables fully automated parallel column chromatography for the first time. The RoboColumn® design…