The Disposable Facility and Single-Use Technology – a Solution or a Revolution? Sponsored by PALL
18th September 2013 | | Dr Joachim Walter, Consultant at Walter Biotech Consultancy and Jerold Martin Sr. Vice President, Global Scientific Affairs for Pall Life Sciences |WATCH FOR FREE
THIS WEBINAR WAS LIVE ON 18TH SEPTEMBER 2013.
Dr Walter got his education and PhD at the RWTH Aachen, Germany, and started his industrial career at Boehringer Ingelheim, Germany, in 1985. For nearly 18 years he was responsible for Process Development Downstream Processing, including four different scientific groups engaged in the development of downstream processes at laboratory scale, scale up and the cGMP manufacture of clinical grade biopharmaceutical proteins for clinical phases I and II in a 2,000 L pilot plant. Dr Walter participated in the scientific presentation of Boehringer Ingelheim by numerous scientific papers, presentations at international congresses and educational seminars.
In 2002 he moved to GE Healthcare, USA, as Head of Membrane Separation Sciences. He worked on new businesses such as Membrane Separations and Single-use Technology regarding industrial and regulatory requirements and applications in biopharmaceutical development and production processes.
In 2009 to 2012 Dr Walter cooperated with Innobiologics, Malaysia. As acting SVP Biopharmaceutical Operations at Innobiologics he was heading three departments including Process Sciences, Biomanufacturing and Facility Engineering.
Dr Walter provides consulting and is specialised in biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing, including project planning, development and manufacturing management, process design downstream processing, including development, application and implementation of single-use technologies, drug safety, documentation and validation.
Follow-up presentation by Jerold Martin, Senior Vice President, Global Scientific Affairs, Pall Life Sciences
Jerold Martin is Sr. Vice President, Global Scientific Affairs for Pall Life Sciences (division of Pall Corporation) and Chairman of the Bio-Process Systems Alliance (BPSA), the single-use bio-manufacturing trade association. He is an expert in bioprocessing, filtration and aseptic processing with over 35 years experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, is a frequent speaker and author, including contributing to numerous PDA Technical Reports, BPSA Guides and ASTM, ISO and ASME-BPE Standards in the field. He has conducted technical seminars and trainings on filtration and single-use technologies for industry and regulatory agencies around the world, and in 2012, he was awarded the BioProcess Manufacturing Thought Leader of the Decade Award by BioProcess International Magazine for his efforts in promoting best practices for single-use manufacturing. He holds an M. Sc. in Microbiology from the University of Toronto.