Perfusion Cell Culture Processes for Biopharmaceuticals

Moritz Wolf is a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and a former post-doctoral fellow at ETH Zurich in the department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences. He has obtained the degree of Doctor of Science from ETH Zurich.

Jean-Marc Bielser is an associate manager in the Biopharma Technology and Innovation group at Merck Serono SA (Switzerland). He obtained his master in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology from EPFL, and the degree of Doctor of Science from ETH Zurich.

Massimo Morbidelli is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences at ETH Zurich and Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. Member of the Italian Academy of Sciences (Accademia dei Lincei), he received the Excellence in Process Development Research Award in 2017 from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the 2018 Separations Science and Technology Award from the American Chemical Society and the 2019 Award in Integrated Continuous Biomanufacturing. He is the co-author of Continuous Biopharmaceutical Processes (Cambridge, 2018), and Parametric Sensitivity in Chemical Systems (Cambridge, 2005).

1. Perfusion mammalian cell culture for recombinant protein manufacturing; 2. Perfusion bioreactors; 3. Scale-down models and sensors for process development; 4. Design and optimization of mammalian cell perfusion cultures; 5. Clinical and commercial-scale reactors; 6. Mechanistic and statistical modeling of bioprocesses.