Industrial Cell Culture and Immunology

Catalog description

This course teaches the skills needed to serve as technicians in FDA-regulated biotechnology production facilities. The course emphasizes the use of current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP), and students gain experience writing and following Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Instructors will describe upstream (fermentation, hybridoma cell growth, bioreactor preparation) and downstream (protein chromatography, tangential flow filtration, quality control assays) processes and correlate them with laboratory activities. The course also covers essential concepts in immunology such as cell-mediated and antibody-mediated immune responses, vaccines, and monoclonal antibodies.