Overview

Professor Cleo Kontoravdi is awarded the 2023 Donald Medal in recognition of her outstanding contribution and inspirational leadership in bioprocess engineering. The talk will discuss current development and manufacturing challenges in the field of macromolecular therapies and vaccines. It will then showcase how process systems engineering and synthetic biology can advance this industrial field by furthering our understanding of the underlying biology and systematically designing interventions to control cellular behaviour.

Speaker

Professor Cleo Kontoravdi, Professor of Biological Systems Engineering, Imperial College London

Cleo is Professor of Biological systems Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London. She holds MEng and PhD degrees from the same department and previously worked at Lonza Biologics as a Research and Development Scientist. Her principal research area is the development and optimisation of animal cell culture systems for therapeutic protein production. Her group works on three challenges: (a) enhancing the quality of these drugs to make them more potent at lower doses and therefore more affordable; (b) making cell systems more productive and (c) developing alternative platforms for producing personalised biotherapeutics. Current industrial partners include GSK, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly and Amgen.

The material presented at this event has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter's own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Biochemical Engineering SIG. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.

Time

14:00–15:00 BST.

Software

The presentation will be delivered via GoToWebinar®. Check system requirements.

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Webinar archive

This webinar is free of charge and open to all to attend, but if you wish to access the slides and a recording to replay on demand then you will need to be a member of the Biochemical Engineering Special Interest Group.