
Prof. Mary Murphy
AutoCRAT Coordinator Prof. of Regenerative Medicine at the National University of Ireland Galway Mary Murphy was a panellist during the ‘Closed systems and automated manufacture: Manufacture & bioprocess’ session at the Advanced Therapies LIVE conference last week. Chaired by Manuel Carrondo, Professor of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, FCT-UNL, Vice-President, IBET, the additional panellists discussing manufacturing and bioprocessing included Dominik Egger, Research Associate, BOKU, Sean Palecek, Director for Research, National Science Foundation Center for Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT), Ioannis Papantoniou, Principal Investigator, FORTH (Foundation Of Research and Technology); Adjunct Professor, KU Leuven and Lilian Walther Jallow, Research Coordinator, Karolinska Institute; CEO, BOOST Pharma.
The Advanced Therapies Congress & Expo 2021, a hybrid online and face-to-face meeting, took place on the 5th and 6th of October 2021, in London.
Mary reports that she had had a number of discussions with companies looking at various types of automation during breaks, for example, Bio Air and Viva Biocel.