Project

Characterization and quantification of extracellular vesicles during the production of lentiviral vectors.

Skills

• Biomanufacturing process development for vaccines and biologics: CHO cell culture cultivation and monitoring (shake flasks, 2L, 10L bioreactors).
• Harvest processes (microfiltration, depth filtration, centrifugation, sedimentation).
• Purification processes (tangential filtration, virus inactivation in vaccine processes, chromatography).
• Analytical tools (SDS-PAGE, CE-SDS, NanoDrop).
• cGMP and GLP environments, BSLII and BSLII+ environments, transfer of technology.

Work experience

• 2016: Technical Officer in Purification in the Human Health Therapeutics Portfolio at National Research Council Canada (Montreal, Canada)
• 2013-2015: Project Manager and Tech Transfer Specialist for Mylan, formerly Confab, at Genipro (Montreal, Canada)
• 2009-2012: Bioprocess Engineer in the Downstream Processing department at Janssen Vaccines (Leiden, Netherlands)
• 2008: Co-op in Process Research and Development, Late Stage Cell Culture at Genentech (South San Francisco, USA)
• Jun-Sep 2007: Intern at Genkyotex, formerly Genticel/BT Pharma (Toulouse, France)
• Mar-Apr 2007: Research Intern at Center of Immunology of Marseille Luminy (Marseille, France)