Featured Speakers

  • Thomas Thomas R. Kreil, Ph.D
    Associate Professor of Virology, Senior Director Viral Vaccines & Global Pathogen Safety, Baxter BioScience
  • Jens-Peter-Gregersen Jens-Peter Gregersen
    SME Virology, Virus Safety, New Projects R&D, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics
  • Viral-and-TSE Marc Martin
    Viral Safety Assessor, AFSSAPS
  • Marie-Murphy Marie Murphy
    Microbiologist, Eli Lilly
  • Hans-Nitschko Hans Nitschko
    Doctor of Diagnostic Virology, Max von Pettenkofer Institute, University of Munich
  • Tanja Tanja Opriessnig
    Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory - Iowa State University
  • Fazal Fazal Khan
    Senior Vice President of Manufacturing, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals
  • Barbara Barbara Potts
    Senior Consultant, Potts and Nelson Consulting, LLC, Chair, Mycoplasma Task Force, PDA

Creating effective strategies to mitigate risk and enable prompt remediation of viral, prion and mycoplasma contamination

Come away with fresh ideas on:

  • Implementing the latest techniques to screen for mycoplasma and mitigate your risk of contamination with Roche
  • Performing risk assessments to avoid TSE contamination at your facility with AFSSAPS
  • Creating a contingency plan for remediation in case of contamination at your facility with Eli Lilly
  • Best-practice approaches to dealing with actual contaminations from Genzyme and Merrimack – apply their lessons to your organisation
  • Ensuring the safety of your raw materials with CSL Behring – get that vital first step right!

Download The Full Programme Here

In the wake of recent contaminations at companies like Genzyme in 2009 and GSK last year, all biologics producers must arm themselves with the information and tactics necessary to avoid contamination—or, in a worst-case scenario, to contain and recover from a contamination as quickly as possible.

Building on the success of last year’s Viral Safety event, Pharma IQ’s 2nd Annual Ensuring Adventitious Agents and Viral Safety in Biologics conference will provoke discussion between industry professionals and facilitate the development of the tools and strategies you need to ensure the safety of your biologics and protect your GMP facility. This event will provide an interactive forum for learning best practices, keeping abreast of new developments and forging lasting business relationships.

Join us this October in Munich to learn from biotech and biopharma experts—and one another—how to escape contamination and get your products to market safely, speedily and successfully.


Barbara-Potts

podcast-edited Listen to the Barbara Potts podcast:

The Biggest Threats to the Safety of Biologics

Dr. Barbara J. Potts, Senior Consultant, Potts and Nelson Consulting, joins Andrea Charles from Pharma, IQ to discuss the biggest threats to the safety of biologics and which contaminants present the most problems. Potts also shares her insights on common myths surrounding mycoplasma and why they persist, developments in PCR kits and how to ensure the safety of raw materials.

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