Distinguished guest lecture AdBIOPRO by Prof. Nigel Titchener-Hooker

Welcome to our next Distinguished guest lecture AdBIOPRO by Prof. Nigel Titchener-Hooker, UCL, Friday Dec 9 14:00, Albanova FA32, Roslagstullsbacken 21, SE 10691.
The seminar is open to all and you are welcome to spread the information.
 
Title: "An 80 year journey of innovation, ingenuity and a degree of serendipity!"
 
Over the past eight decades the field of downstream processing of biological products has advanced enormously. What I have found intriguing as an observer of some of that journey is that it is a little bit like a relay where the baton is passed from one person to the next and even on occasions comes full circle, rather like the lap of an endurance race! My talk will focus mainly on the work of my own department at University College London but will start with the seminal contributions of Edwin Cohn at Harvard and bring us, through the inputs of eight individuals, up to modern times. The theme will be that of precipitation and recovery of delicate biological products. I hope to illustrate I talk through a series of cameos to demonstrate that not all advances are planned and that findings and advances can come from quite surprising sources and people, teaching us the importance to look outside the box. I hope to show that individuals and the support of people in developing their careers is integral to the pursuit of knowledge as engineers seek to change the world for the better.


Professor Nigel Titchener-Hooker, CEEng, FREng, FIChemE has been the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at UCL since 2016. Prior to that he was head of the The Department of Biochemical Engineering, UCL. He founded the EPSRC Future Manufacturing Hub for Targeted Healthcare with a mission to transform the precision of healthcare prescription, improve patient care and quality of life. The Future Targeted Healthcare Manufacturing Hub addresses manufacturing challenges in ensuring that new targeted biological medicines can be developed quickly and manufactured at a cost affordable to society. A consortium of university partners and nearly 50 companies and other groups support the effort. Prior to this he directed the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing of Emerging Macromolecular Therapies. As the first director of the Engineering Doctorate Centre for Bioprocess Leadership he managed a portfolio of over 60 doctorate programmes with companies spanning the whole breadth of the biotech industry. His particular research interests are centred on the delivery of whole bioprocess solutions and in particular the interface between unit operations. He pioneered studies in the area of process-business decision making and as Director of the Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre (IMRC) in Bioprocessing was closely involved with the creation of ultra scale-down tools for the evolution of process flowsheets for the efficient recovery and purification of high value protein therapeutics.
 

We plan to hold this as a webinar via zoom as given below.

When: Dec 9, 2022 02:00 PM Stockholm

Topic: Distinguished guest lecture AdBIOPRO by Prof. Nigel Titchener-Hooker

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