Mammalian Cell Culture Lab

Catalog description

This laboratory course provides extensive hands-on experience in lab-scale pilot plant for animal cell culture (part of the Amgen Bioprocessing Center). The pilot plant includes several 2-L glass bioreactors plus various single use systems, all run as scale-down models of large scale (25,000-L) systems. The course includes not only laboratory exercises and written reports, but also certain weekly classes wherein students will receive additional instruction, occasionally give presentations on their results, and see talks and demonstrations by vendors on their latest technologies.