Bioprocess Design

A competitive and educational Advanced Course on Bioprocess Design

Last week the Advanced Course on Bioprocess Design took place, hosted in cooperation with PlanetB.io at the DSM site in Delft, the Netherlands. This course is cooperatively organized with graduate school VLAG and was organized hybrid, with 32 on-site and 4 online participants. International participants from industry and universities participated.

The course board leaders are Prof. Henk Noorman (DSM/TU Delft), Prof.Em. Sef Heijnen (TU Delft) and Prof. Ruud Weusthuis, who we congratulate with his professorship at Wageningen University this year.

“The course has a unique blend of applied theory that will be helpful in professional life.”

Besides all the presentations and excersises, there was a case study to win, the case study was organized by Amit Deshmukh from DSM. The prestige Geno. design prize (arranged by keynote speaker Noelia Gudino from Genomatica, USA) is this year for the team of Rafael Fernandes (TU Delft), Zhihao Wang (Genomatica), Neerajha Nagarajan (Meatable), Lara Pauline Munkler (Denmark TU), Mattijs Kaemingk (Bilthoven Biologics) and Nicolas Hardy (Danisco (IFF)). Congratulations to all of you and welcome in our Hall of Fame!