LARCHMONT, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2005--Senior managers of biopharmaceutical companies and pharmaceutical companies will convene at the Radisson SAS Scandinavia Hotel in Copenhagen for the Sixth European Biotechnology Symposium. Sponsored by Genetic Engineering News, and organized by BioConferences International, Inc., this is the only event in Europe that assembles a wide range of European biomanufacturing and bio-business expertise. Other sponsors are Invest in Denmark, Novozymes, CMC, Linde, Stedim and Inveresk.
The plenary sessions open on Monday morning , November 14, 2005 with welcoming remarks by John Sterling, Editor-in-Chief of Genetic Engineering News. Mr. Sterling will then introduce Prof. Florian M. Wurm (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne), one of the world's leading experts on mammalian cell culture, who has long been a champion of media optimization as the major contributor to volumetric productivity. At EBS, Dr. Wurm will speak on large-scale mammalian cell culture "from DNA to product." This presentation, focusing primarily on CHO cells, will cover typical decisions on process types, host-related risks and benefits for patients, transient cell culture as a rapid avenue toward obtaining research quantities of protein, and the driving forces behind cell culture's dramatic productivity enhancements.
