BioProcess International™ Conference & Exhibition : Sponsors

Confirmed Sponsors
Updated: July 29, 2009

Diamond Sponsor
	BD Biosciences is a life sciences leader with more than 50 years of expertise in cell biology products and services. The Advanced Bioprocessing strategic platform developed products are currently being used as critical components in the production of some of the most widely used drugs and vaccines on the global market today. BD Biosciences - Advanced Bioprocessing (BDB-AB) is playing a major role in biopharmaceutical drug production, enabling customers large and small to have a tremendous impact on the future of human healthcare. BDB-AB‘s novel portfolio of hydrolysates, cell culture media & supplements and services is the optimal choice for your mammalian cell culture and bacterial fermentation bioprocessing needs.
Platinum Sponsor
	Diosynth Biotechnology, a full service contract manufacturer, has a proven track record in cGMP manufacturing of more than 80 complex recombinant proteins for clinical and commercial use. We help our customers by offering technical excellence, reliable execution, collaborative project management, and demonstrated regulatory expertise. Diosynth Biotechnology is a part of Schering-Plough Corporation.
Gold Sponsors
	A provider of biopharmaceutical manufacturing technology and services including custom manufacturing, XD® Technology for mammalian cell lines, and licensing of the PER.C6® human cell line. Years of experience in cGMP manufacturing services provides companies with a turn-key biologic manufacturing solution reducing cost, risk, and time to market.
	Invitrogen develops life science technologies for molecular and cell biology, bioproduction and clinical applications. We accelerate biological understanding through technologies and services that include leading industry names such as GIBCO, Molecular Probes, and Dynal. Our portfolio spans the breadth of drug applications and emerging areas.
	Lonza is a life sciences company and leading custom manufacturer of biopharmaceuticals, active pharmaceutical ingredients and chemical intermediates. We create value for customers – large and small – through cutting-edge development services and advanced production processes in mammalian cell culture, peptide synthesis, cell-based therapeutics, microbial fermentation, and organic chemical synthesis. We can help.
	Novozymes Biopharma is a part of Novozymes A/S, the world leader in bioinnovation. Novozymes Biopharma is dedicated to the biopharmaceutical industry. With over 25 years of leadership in biomanufacturing and process development, Novozymes offers regulatory-compliant, dedicated, and proven solutions to optimize your manufacturing process, drug formulation and drug delivery. Find out more about Novozymes Biopharma at www.biopharma.novozymes.com
	The life sciences industry is both driven and united by its need for speed to market, product reliability and economics. Pall’s leading edge filtration, separation and purification technologies and services play an essential and pivotal role in this industry’s ability to achieve these goals. In the laboratory, Pall products help to facilitate the drug discovery and development process to get innovative drugs to the market faster. In Biopharmaceuticals, Pall filtration, chromatography, sampling, monitoring and quality assurance products, together with technical services in validation, assays and process optimization are applicable to laboratory and pilot-scale development, aseptic processing, biologicals, bioprocessing, fermentation and downstream processing.
	Thermo Scientific HyClone Cell Culture products and BioProcessing systems advance productivity for life-science research and protein-based drug production. Widely known as the premier supplier of quality sera for cell culture, HyClone classical media, serum-free and protein-free media, process liquids and flexible, single-use BioProcess Container systems provide technology and innovation for your research.
Silver Sponsors
	Applied Biosystems is now a part of Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE), a global biotechnology tools company dedicated to improving the human condition. Life Technologies was created by the combination of Invitrogen Corporation and Applied Biosystems Inc.
	GE Healthcare provides products and services for life sciences that include chromatography, membrane filtration, cell culture, DNA synthesis, technical training courses and validation services spanning laboratory to production scale.
	Gyrolab GXP® enables miniaturized and automated assays. Gyrolab® facilitates rapid optimization, wide dynamic range, and improved sensitivity over ELISA from low-volume, complex samples; allowing detection of impurities and host cell proteins.
	Millipore is a life science leader providing cutting-edge technologies, tools and services for bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Millipore optimizes efficiency and safety for the world's biopharmaceutical manufacturers by providing integrated solutions and applications expertise into and out of the bioreactor so they can achieve their goals.