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December 2018

Dear <<First Name>>,

Welcome to the last BioProNET newsletter of 2018. You've probably heard from our last email that our application to continue BioProNET beyond February 2019 was unsuccessful. However, we are currently looking at ways to keep the bioprocessing community together, and will keep you informed of progress. 

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

BBSRC Innovator of the Year

This year, BioProNET-members James Winterburn and Ben Dolman won BBSRC Innovator of the Year in the early career researcher category. You can see more about their project in a BioProNET video here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW-t_H7E4zY

Nominations are now open for the 2019 award. Winners of each of the four categories – Commercial Impact, Social Impact, International Impact and Early Career Impact – will receive a £10,000 award, with a further £10,000 for the BBSRC Innovator of the Year winner.  Further information and links to the application and recommendation forms can be found here: http://bbsrc.ukri.org/innovator
The application deadline is 30th January 2019

Other BioProNET achievements from 2018 included:

Our 5th Annual Science Meeting, held at BMA House in London

3 collaboration building workshops: 
   Big data and computational methods in bioprocessing
   The promise of genome editing: changing bioprocessing, manufacture & more
   Bioprocess intensification

And we've continued to produce case studies of the projects that BioProNET has funded. The most recent one is an interview with Dan Smith of Cobra Biologics.

Our interim achievement report was published in March 2018; access it here.

Upcoming Events

Parliament for researchers: impact and engagement at the UK Parliament
30 January - London | 15 February - Wales | 20 March - East of England | 19 June  - North West England
More information here
 
Effective bioprocess characterisation and validation
University College London, 25-28th February 
Get expert guidance on choosing on how best to integrate QbD, DoE and PAT into lifecycle approach to process characterisation. 
More information here

IBioIC Annual Conference 
Glasgow, 30-31 January
More information here

Bioprocess International Europe
Vienna, Austria, 2-5 April
More information here

Recombinant protein production 10  
Crete, Greece 24-27 April 
More information here

GAPSummit 2019
Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, USA, June 16-20th 
GapSummit is the premier, global, intergenerational biotechnology summit that attracts world leaders and the next generation of leaders to substantively discuss pressing challenges facing the bioeconomy and catalyze innovation to address these challenges. GapSummit competitively selects 100 Leaders of Tomorrow from around the world to attend the summit. 

Jobs 

Microbiology@UCL Domain Manager, London
The post holder will play a key role in building the Domain by facilitating interactions between UCL academics/researchers and industry. 

Upstream BioProcess Specialist
Ipsen
The successful applicant will have extensive biopharmaceutical R&D industry experience working in cell culture and fermentation process development teams, ideally microbial process development. In addition, they will have a good understanding of cGMP and regulatory aspects.
 

Funding 

Upcoming BBSRC deadlines, all 16th January
Responsive mode research grants
New investigator scheme
Stand-alone' LINK
Industrial Partnership Awards
https://bbsrc.ukri.org/funding/filter/?&year=2019#January2019
 

Contact Charlotte if you have information to include in future BioProNET newsletters