Temperature control during sourcing, manufacturing, and delivery of cell therapies is crucial, as fluctuations can affect viability and function of the cells, and potentially, the overall efficacy and safety of the therapeutic product. In many cell therapy workflows, source cells arrive cryopreserved at LN2 temperatures (-150 to -196 °C) and post-manufacturing, cells are again cryopreserved and stored in vapor- or liquid phase LN2 prior to their use in the clinic. In either case, containers filled with dry ice (-50 to…

Traditional medium optimization strategies are labor intensive, costly, and time consuming. In this project, high-throughput screening technology was adopted along with statistical design to reduce costs and decrease time for optimizing culture conditions for maximized antibody production from a custom Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell clone. The presented work includes two phases: phase 1 for basal medium optimization and phase 2 for feed optimization. Phase 1 and phase 2 each have two rounds. A DoE screening methodology was used to…

Seed culture expansion is commonly performed in several consecutive batch cultures. Starting from a cryopreserved cell stock, the initial culture expansion is typically performed in shake flasks, while the final steps are performed, at greater scales, in bioreactor vessels. Such a procedure is time-consuming and labor intensive with multiple steps that introduce risk for mishandling and contamination. This work describes how the use of perfusion in the seed culture expansion process, in combination with the use of high-density cell banks,…