biomanufacturing

Production of this Downstream processing eLearning module was funded by a DOL grant (DOL #TC-23761-12-60-A-37) led by Russ Read at Forsyth Technical Community College. The Montgomery County Community College leads were Jack O'Neill, PhD, Sonia Wallman, PhD, and Margaret Byrans, PhD.

The entry page has links to three parts:

The module is presented in detail in Webinar 3: Virtual Tools for Protein Purification and Downstream Processing .

Module 1 provides an overview of the stages... Read more

Biotech instructors across the US have been stepping up to help out their colleagues and share materials for teaching concepts in biomanufacturing. While we all acknowledge that working with virtual tools is not the same as working with our own bioreactors, we can see useful features that may keep some instructors using these tools even when we're allowed back in the lab.

Biomanufacturing is a collection of processes that companies use when making biological products. In the first part of the process, living things are grown in culture under conditions where they will produce the proteins or other... Read more

Are you interested in seeing the inside of a lab but don’t know anyone who could get you inside one?

Amgen’s Virtual Lab can give you a fascinating look into what goes on in a production laboratory.

The website walks the viewer through the process of Gene to Medicine with a mixture of: 1) videos of actual Amgen employees, 2) descriptions of the step being viewed, and 3) pictures of the equipment and processes being described. Cell culture, protein recovery and purification, and finally formulation to distribution are described with plenty of real world details.

How can you teach strategies for protein purification without a lab?

Protein Purification is an award-winning program which has been widely used in schools, colleges and universities since 1983. It guides students (and experts!) through some of the more commonly-used protein separation techniques and lets them experiment. Students can begin with a simple mixture of proteins and follow a tutorial to see how these behave during gel filtration and ion-exchange chromatography. Afterwards, students can go on to design and test full purification protocols using more complex mixtures of proteins. The behavior of proteins in... Read more