American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) National Biotechnology Conference May 21, 2012

This year's AAPS National Biotechnology Conference will feature presentations and discussions of interest to scientists who are devoted to advancing health through innovations in biotherapeutics. The “hot topics” for this conference were announced as: formation of biosimilars, Immunogenicity to the “Non-business” Region(s) of the Biotherapeutic, Design, Evaluation, and Characterization of USP <1050.1> Viral Clearance Procedure,s and Post Market Immunogenicity Monitoring.

MedImmune will present ”Partial unfolding and aggregation of a monoclonalantibody (mAb) in the presence of sub-denaturing concentrations of guanidine HCI.”