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hi I'm dan Stanton
welcome to BPI TV I'm joined here by dr.
Jana Schon dooba who is the CEO of SCI
Tina
yonas welcome hi and then thanks you for
having me
you spoke yesterday as part of the cell
line development and engineering track
at BPI Europe can you just give me a
brief a brief overview of some of the
highlights from your session sure I
talked on our single cell printing
technology and I'm very excited to be
here this this this year around again
because we launched a new whole series
of products called the Exide series that
include three products it's the seaside
for the isolation of single cells
mammalian sails in that case the B side
which allows you to isolate individual
bacteria and the F side which includes a
prescient based I'm sorting tool where
you can sort single cells based on for
essence this technology is this
proprietary to site ena yes that's
that's our core technology and it's all
based on our single cell printing
technology which we launched also at
this conference in 2015 in our single
cell printer which is basically the
bigger brother of the C side and that's
our tool for automation and integration
into robotic platforms in in relatively
simple layman's terms what what what
really is single cell printing and why
does the bio processing industry require
it so with the bio processing especially
the bio farmer Pro industry requires is
cell on development to manufacture their
biologicals at some point and to
generate a cell line you have to go
through a step called cloning where you
take a transfected host cell line and
isolate individual cells to derive
populations that are clonal that means
have been derived from a single cell
only this way you can generate
homogeneous and unstable cell lines that
allow
to manufacture a drug and what our
technology the single cell printing
technology does is similar to an inkjet
printer we shoot small droplets
free-flying droplets into reaction
chambers typically microwell plates 96 6
or 384 well plates but not as in a
common inkjet printer we have a
high-resolution optics that allows you
to look into the nozzle and then detect
individual cells so that the computer
algorithm can make sure that we only
place droplets in the wells that contain
single cells and that's a very neat way
of automating automating the the whole
workflow of putting single cells into
wells for generating closer lines so
would this be used for all forms of
biologics or specific therapies yeah
it's all forms of biologics we even have
customers in the gene therapy space many
people work in antibodies obviously and
antibody drug conjugates all kinds of
biologics actually and I assume as
biologics increase in in the development
pipelines you've seen an increase in
demand for very much so when we launched
the instruments in 2015 where we were a
young company started selling we came
here had a great resonance from from the
people many people were interested we
did a lot of demos started selling these
instruments and have doubled our sales
ever every year ever since so it's an
exciting place to be in it's an exciting
market to be in and with our new
instruments out there we expect much
more growth even in the coming years so
where where are you gonna take spartina
from there well I mean our main goal is
to serve the biopharmaceutical industry
to generate cell lines at an higher
efficiency and faster and I see the
industry moving into a trend where
they're going through higher throughput
and in higher efficiency we see a lot of
pressure on our customers to reduce that
time line
and and that means that a lot of people
move from 96-well plates to for example
high density plates 384 well plates they
need to make sure that they don't only
isolate cells but they isolate the right
cells and those cells that are viable
and form nicely growing colonies so so
these are the trends that we in trying
to support and help our customers with
and I guess shown as my final question
is what sort of reception did you get
following your presentation yesterday
from the fellow delegates here oh it was
very nice because there were a lot of
interesting questions asked we had a
little stand outside there in the
reception hall here many people came by
wanted to look we have a new software
package so even a lot of customers that
that are here and we're happy to meet
again interested in the new software and
obviously the new instruments new
applications that you can do with it was
a very exciting day for us dr. Yunus
thank you very much for your time thanks
for having enjoyed the rest of the show
I will thank you for BPI TV I'm dan
Stanton
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