Monday, November 20, 2023

2 pm CET | in-person

Registration

3 pm CET | in-person

From cultivation to isolation – Stem cell cultivation in stirred bioreactors and exosome isolation
Pre-conference workshop for (PhD) students, Post Docs and Lab Technicians

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

8:30 am CET | in-person

registration | welcome coffee

9 am - 5:30 pm CET | in-person | online

presentations and poster sessions

Keynote “Stem cell cultivation in bioreactors to heal and feed the world”
Dr. Robert Zweigerdt
Medical School Hannover (MHH)

• Session 1: All about clinical manufacturing
  
  Towards clinical-grade stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles (EV)
  Dr. Klaus Graumann, Phonestra GmbH
  
  Efficient and scalable generation of high-quality pluripotent iPSC start material for cell therapy GMP manufacturing in bioreactors
  Dr. Felix Manstein, Evotec SE

Coffee break | networking | exhibition

• Protein-free Differentiation media for hPSC-cardiomyocyte production in up to 2 Liter Stirred-Tank Bioreactors
  Nils Kriedemann
  Hannover Medical School (MHH)
  

Poster Pitches

Lunch | networking | exhibition| Poster session

• Session 2: All about Process controll and analytics
  Cell-based metabolic profiling assays for cell therapy
  Dr. Jolanta Vidugiriene, Promega Corporation
  
  Expansion of hMSC in stirred-tank bioreactors
  Dr. Francoise de Longueville, Eppendorf Applications Technologies

Poster Pitches

• Development of an end-to-end closed iPSC expansion process using a cell specific perfusion regime for process intensification
  Patrick Statham, PhD
  Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult

Coffee break | networking | exhibition

• Session 3: All about iPSC
  Efficient and reproducible generation of human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes and cardiac organoids in stirred suspension systems
  Maksymilian Prondzynski, PhD,
  The Department of Cardiology
  Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
  
  From Stem Cell to Meat
  Tony Davies
  Meatable B.V.

5:30 pm CET | in-person

get together with food & drinks
poster prize