SP Scientific has announced a new hands-on training course entitled 'Rapid
and Rational Development of Stable Lyophilized Protein Formulations'.
Due to take place from September 17-20, 2013 the extended training course has
been designed by renowned industry experts Dr Jeff Schwegman** and Dr John
Carpenter** to provide valuable assistance to those involved in the development
and manufacture of diagnostics, vaccines, and biologically based injectable
drug products including monoclonal antibodies.
Today an increasing number of products being developed as vaccines,diagnostics,
and injectable drugs are based upon biological molecules such asproteins,
enzymes, and antibodies. Companies involved in these markets use these
molecules to develop testing kits to detect various disease states and their
pre-cursers, to develop vaccines to prevent and or minimize infections and to
develop protein based drugs, including monoclonal antibodies,to treat disease
states in both humans and animals. While discovery and development of
these types of products has soared, traditional downstream development
methodologies used in formulation and stabilization are often failing to
achieve long term stability, consequently companies may find themselves unable
to manufacture their products to meet the guidelines laid out by the FDA.
Lyophilization, or freeze-drying, is recognized as a process used to enhance
the stability of many products; however, if not done properly on biologically
based formulations, it can be extremely damaging to the physical structure of
the molecule, rendering them inactive, aggregated, and potentially eliciting an
immune response in patients. Addressing this issue, the 4-day training
coursehas been designed to enable people involved with lyophilisation, at all
levels of experience, to gain considerable knowledge about the rapid and
rational development of stable lyophilized protein formulations and to
reinforce their classroom training with extensive laboratory work.
Full details of this extensive hands-on training course to be held in SP
Scientific's modern Warminster, PA laboratory / training facility is available
at www.spscientific.com/ProteinHandsOn.
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