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The Speaker Roundtable from BMWS24 — A Conversation About Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Issues and Ideas
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The Speaker Roundtable from BMWS24 — A Conversation About Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Issues and Ideas

For this special episode of Executive Platforms’ bluEPrint Podcast series we had some of the most senior speakers and delegates from the 2024 edition of the long-running Biomanufacturing World Summit series sit down and speak to the challenges and opportunities submitted by attendees of the event as they filled out their delegate profiles, weighted by popularity.

With topics ranging from leadership and culture, to talent attraction, development and retention, to supply chain issues, to commercializing CGTs and other ATMPs, change and disruption throughout the business landscape, and how to serve patients better now and in the future, this wide-ranging conversation sees five senior executives from five very different companies speaking to the issues, ideas, innovations, and inspirations that matter to all of them as guided by a moderator who knows the industry inside and out. It is a fantastic deep dive into what is most relevant to biopharma technical operations leaders today. Give it a listen!

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“Applying Lessons Learned from Covid 19 for Future Pandemic Preparedness!”
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“Applying Lessons Learned from Covid 19 for Future Pandemic Preparedness!”

Given the experiences of Covid 19 Pandemic Response, we are even more aware of the need to be ready for what lies ahead with emerging and existing infectious diseases. Covid 19 continues to be a problem with evolving variants, Flu season ahead is anticipated to be worst in years, and we’re learning about new or resurfacing infectious disease outbreaks around the world on a daily basis. Therefore, Pandemic Preparedness is more important now than ever. This presentation will share the key CMC lessons learned from the past two years that can be applied to Pandemic Preparedness – with focus on…

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COVID-19 MAbs at Pandemic Speed, Volumes and COGs
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COVID-19 MAbs at Pandemic Speed, Volumes and COGs

Vir Biotech has discovered a neutralizing COVID-19 mAb to a unique, highly conserved Coronavirus spike sequence, high barrier to resistance and effector function We have partnered with numerous CDMOs and GSK to move from discovery to the clinic in approximately 6 months World-wide pandemic requirements for an efficacious neutralizing mAb may exceed 20 metric tons – challenging the capacity of industry manufacturing infrastructure — Michael Kamarck Chief Technology Officer Vir Biotechnology Michael Kamarck is Chief Technology Officer at Vir. Previously, he was senior vice president of Global Vaccines and Biologics Manufacturing and president of Merck BioVentures where he was responsible…

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Keynote: The Successful History of Biologics Manufacturing Provides Foresights and Strategies for New Bio Modalities

Establishment of broad communities of practitioners in both manufacturing and process development accelerated maturation of both disciplines Convergence of these process and manufacturing technologies was driven by excellence and capacity in selected CMOs Manufacturing portability has provided remarkable stories of win-win capacity-exchange between proprietary companies Process convergence has resulted in remarkable progress in process yields and cost improvement Intro to Vir Bio: Capacity and cost improvements in bio-manufacturing facilitate global access to medicines for Infectious Disease — Michael Kamarck Chief Technology Officer Vir Biotechnology Michael Kamarck is Chief Technology Officer at Vir. Previously, he was senior vice president of Global…

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