• Introduction to processes for the manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals. • Introduction to animal cell based cultivation process and relations/interactions between cultivation and other steps of the biopharmaceutical process.
• Usage of stable expression systems and description of the existing systems, e.g. cell lines.
• Review of cell metabolism relevant for the animal cell cultivation and application to process design. Scale-up aspects.
• Issues of commercial production, e.g. requirements of patient safety and compliance to regulatory constraints.
• Integration of the different course materials into development and design of a cultivation process.
• Cells as product
• Basic techniques for mammalian cell culture in shake flask, and small-scale fed-batch bioreactor operations