The initial phase in producing biopharmaceuticals is known as Upstream Processing. This process aims to optimize a cells growth and productivity while ensuring purity and quality. Mammalian cell culture is an important tool for research, clinical, and pharmaceutical applications. Through lecture and hands-on activities, participants will gain experience initiating and sub culturing a suspension cell line, observe for contamination, inoculate a small scale bioreactor, and perform an analysis to determine the growth rate of the cells.
