10th Annual Biological Production Forum 2011

Germany

The Merck Discovery Tour

The Discovery Merck Tour - NOW FULLY BOOKED!

The Merck Discovery Tour is a pre-event day taking place at Merck KGaA’s brand new Process Solutions plant in Darmstadt. It’s so new that it has not yet been completed, this is your chance to be one of the first to not only see it but also view the latest state of the art technologies housed in it.

This full day tour is a truly unique opportunity to discover Merck KGaA’s latest developments and technologies through a mixture of specialist lectures and a tour to the new Merck GMP Process Solutions Plant. Delegates will be collected from the official hotel and taken to Merck’s Darmstadt facility and will take part in:

• Merck company tour
• Rare opportunity to tour the new Merck GMP Process Solutions Plant
• Specialist lectures on Merck’s latest developments in downstream purification – including the smart EshmunoTM resins – followed by in-depth discussion with specialists
• The tour culminates in a tour of Darmstadt and afternoon entertainment comprising of a tour of Mathildenhöhe (Art Nouveau artists’ colony)

21 June 2010: The Merck Discovery Tour

08:30 Tour registration 09:00 Pick-up at Hotel 09:30 Arrival at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt 10:00 Burghard Freiberg Tools for Biomanufacturing 10:15 Dr. Jonas Anders Passion for Performance for your biopharma process 10:30 Dr. Melanie Brandl New opportunities for upstream processing: Chemically Defined Media 10:45 Dr. Lothar Jacob EshmunoTM – Discover the SMART side of Process Economics Tangible cost savings Superior binding capacity by modified tentacle technology Excellent flow rates by proprietary base beads 11:05 James Easson Plug’n Flow Prepacked Columns for Flexible Manufacturing Quick change-over times Easy handling

11:15 Dr. Henry Thiemeyer New State-of-the-art GMP Solutions Plant Process solutions and CIP products Quality principles and services 11:30 Merck Company Tour Merck’s history GMP solutions plant GMP plant for solid mixtures 13:00 Lunch with Opportunity to get Insight Information about Resins for biochromatography Cell Culture Media EMPROVE® bio process chemicals Peptide purification Blood fractionation Vaccine manufacturing Global applied technology – trainings and workshops 14:30 Darmstadt City Tour 17:30 Return to Conference Hotel

Advices: Please do not take pictures at Merck. The use of mobile phones during the company tour is not allowed.

To confirm your attendance on the Merck Discovery Tour please contact Ruby Johnson at ruby.johnson@wtgevents.com or call on +442072027572

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