2024 Partners
Miltenyi Biotec
Lead Partner
For 30 years, Miltenyi Biotec has been dedicated to improving scientific understanding and medical progress for clinical research and cell and gene therapy (CGT). Our products and services facilitate the advancement of science in these key areas, and support clinicians who are bringing new cellular therapies to reality. We specialize in developing tailored cell processing protocols for the fully automated and closed, GMP-compliant CliniMACS Prodigy®. In addition, we offer comprehensive CGT support, including contract development and manufacturing of CGT products and tailored GMP lentiviral vectors.
Agilent Technologies
Expertise Partner
Agilent is a global leader in life science, diagnostics and analytical laboratory technologies. Leveraging more than 50 years of expertise, we create instruments, software, services and solutions that provide trusted answers to our customers’ most critical questions. We are passionate about helping them solve their most ambitious scientific challenges, increase laboratory performance, and advance the quality of life.
Slingshot Biosciences
Expertise Partner
Slingshot Biosciences addresses a crucial yet often neglected issue in healthcare affecting patient outcomes: the lack of consistent reference materials for cell-based assays. Our cell mimics offer an innovative control solution for instrument manufacturing, assay setup, validation, and manufacturing QC control. As cell and gene therapy advances, the demand for dependable controls in drug development, from discovery to patient monitoring, grows.
ThermoFisher Scientific
Expertise Partner
Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue over $40 billion. Their Mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether their customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, they are here to support them. Their global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.
BD
Expertise Partner
As pioneers in flow cytometry, we at BD Biosciences take pride in the high performance, reliability, and reproducibility of our instruments. Our extensive portfolio of flow cytometry instruments and reagents are designed to empower you with precise tools that can transform your translational research. We partner globally, across all stages of the drug development process, supporting leading biopharmaceutical companies and CROS, from discovery to market approval and commercialization.
Accellix
Program Partner
The Accellix Automated Cell Phenotyping Platform seamlessly integrates the capabilities of flow cytometry within the GMP manufacturing suite. By automating every strep from sample preparation to data acquisition and analysis, this platform excels in optimizing the intricate processes of incoming, in-process, and release quality control testing throughout the cell therapy manufacturing workflow. This empowers our valued cell therapy partners to fulfil their essential quality control requirements whilst propelling life changing therapies that benefit patients worldwide.
bioMérieux
Program Partner
For professionals manufacturing and testing cutting-edge advanced cell and gene therapies, bioMérieux is the microbiology quality testing partner that offers simple, automated, and efficient testing solutions so that you can get safe and effective life-saving products to your patients faster. Our solutions include BACT/ALERT, BIOFIRE, 3P® EM Culture Media and BIOBALL®.
Intertek Pharmaceutical Services
Exhibition Partner
Our bespoke, purpose-built GLP / GCP / GMP laboratories have supported developers and manufacturers for over 30 years by providing advanced characterisation programs. We have worked on multiple studies involving cell or gene therapies, mRNA, and plasmid DNA based products. Our facility has been designed to handle recombinant genomic materials for the purposes of research and compliant testing, including specialist facilities for handling Class I and Class II Biological Agents. Intertek’s innovative bio/pharmaceutical services are delivered consistently with precision, pace, and passion, enabling you, our customer, to power ahead safely.
LumaCyte
Program Partner
LumaCyte’s advanced real-time bioanalytics platform, Radiance®, is a label-free, single cell approach for quantitative characterization of innate cellular responses, without the need for antibody or genetic labeling. This revolutionary technology utilizes Laser Force Cytology™ (LFC) to measure subtle phenotypic changes based purely on the intrinsic biophysical and biochemical properties of cells in response to their environment or treatment.
Axion Biosystems
Innovation Partner
Want to evaluate killing kinetics with physiologically relevant effector cell to target cell ratios? Concerned about the possible confounding effects of labeling your cells? Introducing Maestro ZHT from Axion BioSystems, the world’s most advanced impedance b ased real-time cell analysis platform. Over minutes or weeks gain unprecedented access to the kinetics of your biology. Straightforward and easy to use, any researcher can now track immune cell-mediated killing in 96- and 384-well plates.
Mission Bio
Innovation Partner
Mission Bio is a life sciences company that accelerates discoveries and cures for a wide range of diseases by equipping researchers with the tools they need to better measure, characterize, and predict our resistance and response to new therapies. Mission Bio’s multi-omics approach improves time-to-market for new therapeutics, including innovative cell and gene therapies that provide new pathways to health. The company's Tapestri Platform is being utilized by customers at leading research centers, pharmaceutical, and diagnostics companies worldwide. A Tapestri assay recently entered GMP qualification and validation, indicating that single-cell analysis is on its way to routine use in clinical trials to support the next wave of life-saving CGT treatments.
Mango
Innovation Partner
Mango is revolutionizing the pharmaceutical QC testing industry by developing a solution that provides sterility and bioburden results in hours, not days. Our super-resolution technology delivers action-level contamination alerts within a single shift.
The M6 delivers a faster time-to-result through automated enumeration of bacterial and fungal colonies through a trained machine learning algorithm. The system monitors the entire growth area at micron level resolution, therefore allowing the system to detect micro-colonies long before the human eye
Mango isn’t just a step forward; it’s a bold leap into the new era of microbial quality control: fast, reliable and seamlessly automated.
Immudex
Innovation Partner
Immudex ApS is a pioneering life science company and the trusted partner of scientists worldwide spearheading the global adoption of precision cellular immune monitoring. Immudex’s mission is to help researchers and clinicians unravel the complexity of the immune system, enabling the development of more effective immune-based therapeutics and diagnostics.
Immudex operates globally, with headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark, and North American operations based in Philadelphia, PA. Immudex’s Dextramer® technology is superior for the detection of antigen-specific immune cells, including rare and low-affinity cells. Immudex offers a broad product portfolio that allows scientists to investigate diverse types of immune cells, including T cells, non-conventional T cells and B cells, with reagents tailored to specific applications. Immudex’s products are compatible with multiple platforms from flow cytometry to next generation sequencing and single-cell multi-omics.
In addition to Dextramer® reagents for basic research, Immudex also provides Clinical-Grade Dextramer® (GMP) products and Dextramer® CMV Kits (IVD) manufactured in ISO 13485:2106-certified facilities, according to the requirements of FDA QSR 21 CFR 820. Immudex’s products enable scientists to get the full picture of the immune response, supporting ground-breaking advances within immuno-oncology, transplantation, autoimmune and infectious diseases.
Find out more at www.immudex.com