How to secure and standardize your cell expansion

Anette joined Anocca in 2014 as scientist. During her time at Anocca she has since achieved the title Principal Scientist and has occupied the roles of Head of Quality Control, Head of Specimen Core, and Head of Cell Analysis Core. Since 2018 she is Head of GMP Process Development, leading a 10-person strong team of scientists and bioengineers in preparing the company's assets for clinical manufacture. Throughout her time at Anocca Anette has been a leading figure in establishment of cell-based assays for Quality Control, single cell sorting, multimer validation, and characterization of clinical assets.Anette teaches in-house courses on flow cytometry and aseptic work methods, and is part of the company's biosafety committee.Anette holds a PhD in immunology and a diploma in biochemistry & molecular biology that she obtained at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Anette came to Sweden in 2009 to pursue a post-doc at KI Huddinge in the group of Matti Sällberg where she worked with therapeutic DNA vaccines against Hepatitis B and C before joining Anocca.

Paula joined Cytiva in 2019 as Field Application Specialist for Cell and Gene Therapy in EMEA. In her role, she supports customers to facilitate their process automation, by providing expert advice and application support. She provides training on the manual operations and full automation with the Xuri™ W25 cell expansion system.Previously, she worked as Sr. Technology Development Associate at Lonza Netherlands, where she led the method transfer of ATMPs from external clients to the CMO. She was responsible for the execution of QC assays' mapping, risk assessments, and gap analysis to ensure GMP compliance. Moreover, she designed the validation approach for non-compendial assays for quality control testing according to ATMP guidelines.Among other roles, Paula worked as Research Associate at Biokit, A Werfen company in Barcelona, where she held the research assignment to maintain hybridoma cell cultures and worked on the optimization of transient protein expression in CHO-S cells. She holds an M. Sc. in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Barcelona and has knowledge of academia, biotech, and the CMO industry.