by Baklasha

BioProcess International (BPI) announces the 12 award winners of the 2012 BioProcess International Awards – Honoring a Decade of Bioprocess. The 2012 BioProcess International Awards were created to recognize the outstanding products, services, partnerships and people that have had the greatest positive impact on bioprocessing over the past decade.

Winners and finalists were honored and recognized by their peers at an awards dinner and ceremony as part of the 2012 BioProcess International Conference and Exhibition in Providence, Rhode Island on October 9, 2012.

The winners and finalists for the 2012 BioProcess International Awards are:

Upstream Processing Pillar (Exclusively sponsored by ATMI LifeSciences)

Technology of the Decade Award

(Winner) The Wave Bioreactor: An Early Disruptive Technology (GE Healthcare)

(Finalist) ATF (Alternating Tangential Flow) System (Refine Technology)

(Finalist) The First Single-Use, Stirred-Tank Cell Culture Bioreactor (SUB) (Thermo Scientific)

Technical Application of the Decade Award Winner

(Winner) Bayer Cell Culture Development Group (US) and Technology Services (Germany) Optimizing cell retention using perfusion cultivation

(Finalist) GSK and Pfenex Micro-24/Cellerator (from Microreactor Technologies)

(Finalist) Therapeutic Proteins International, LLC Single-use technology for production of bacterial proteins

Collaboration of the Decade Award WInner

(Winner) Worldwide supply and distribution agreements to develop novel filtration systems (Refine Technology, GE Healthcare, and Sartorius Stedim Biotech)

(Finalist) Genomic sequencing of the Chinese hamster genome database (CHO Genome User Group)

(Finalist) Xcellerex AMP program team (DARPAAMP) (Xcellerex, Pfenex, deltaDOT, Ltd., BioPharm Services, Inc., and the Latham BioPharm Group, Inc.)

Thought Leader of the Decade Award Winner

(Winner) Parrish Galliher technologist and entrepreneur (Xcellerex)

(Finalist) Chetan T. Goudar a champion of systems biology (Amgen, Thousand Oaks)

(Finalist) Jerold Martin industry spokesperson and single-use champion (Pall Life Sciences, BPSA)

Downstream Processing Pillar (Exclusively sponsored by GE Healthcare Life Sciences)

Technology of the Decade Award

(Winner) IBD Inline Buffer Dilution Systems (Asahi Kasei Bioprocess)

(Finalist) Planova virus-removal filters (Asahi Kasei Bioprocess)

(Finalist) Viresolve Pro and Pro+ (EMD Millipore)

Technical Application of the Decade Award

(Winner) Percivia, LLC (Blanca Lain et al.) Toyopearl brand GigaCap S-650M media (Tosoh Bioscience)

(Finalist) Amgen Technology Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)

(Finalist) Human Genome Sciences Millipores Pellicon 2 tangential flow mini-cassette with Biomax polyethersulfone 50 kDa membrane with C screen

Collaboration of the Decade Award

(Winner) New affinity-ligandbased chromatographic media (GE Healthcare and BAC BV)

(Finalist) ProSep