Aldevron Breakthrough Blog: Events

Looking back at 2022

Four events that made it a great year

I must admit, I’m a sucker for just about any list article. Show me a title such as, “8 Reasons Why…” or “10 Movies That…”, and there’s a pretty good chance I’ll click. I often find myself scrolling through the strangest lists, reviewing things that I really don’t care about – kitchen gadgets, closet organizing products, stocking stuffers. I’m hopeless. I’m compelled to click.

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Lessons Learned & Looking to the Future

Thoughts from the World Vaccine Congress

Managing the H1N1 outbreak in 2009 was considered a practice run for the recent SARS-CoV2 pandemic and, over the last two years, we certainly learned a great deal in being prepared for the next virus to gain a foothold. That was the backdrop as we returned to the World Vaccine Congress in Washington, DC.

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Applying Experience - Partnering with Pioneers to Deliver Plasmid for Discovery Through Commercial Application: On Demand Video

Aldevron recently hosted a webinar through FIERCE Biotech titled: Applying Experience - Partnering with Pioneers to Deliver Plasmid for Discovery Through Commercial Application.

Listen below to hear featured presentations from Cindy Biffert, VP of GMP Nucleic Acids Business Unit at Aldevron, Barry Byrne, M.D, P.h.D, Associate Chair of Pediatrics and Professor at UFL, Director of Powell Gene Therapy Center, and Earl and Christy Powell University Chair in Genetics, and Christine Sheaffer, Manufacturing Operations Lead at Spark Therapeutics. 

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Plasmid DNA Insights: Expanded Focus on CMC in Gene & Cell Therapy Development

Aldevron recently hosted a webinar through Endpoints news titled: Plasmid DNA Insights: Expanded Focus on CMC in Gene and Cell Therapy Development.

Arsalan Arif, the publisher and founder of Endpoints News moderated the well-balanced, industry expert guest panel featuring Dr. Anthony Davis, Chief Executive of Dark Horse Consulting, Ken Bonnell, SVP of Quality and Regulatory at Aldevron; Biswarup Dasgupta, Director of Quality Assurance at Sarepta; and Frank Bonnelly, Director of Supply Chain at Encoded.

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A Successful and Inspiring Breakthrough Symposium

Earlier this month Aldevron hosted its first scientific conference, the Breakthrough Symposium. We felt the time was right, given 2018 is Aldevron’s 20th anniversary, to invite those in the gene and cell therapy fields to Fargo, North Dakota, for collaboration, networking and fellowship. We were overwhelmed and gratified by the response!

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Taking Biotech as Far as it Can Go at the Breakthrough Symposium

Aldevron is privileged to work with some of the most innovative and groundbreaking companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories in biotechnology today. Since the company’s founding 20 years ago, Michael Chambers and John Ballantyne have always focused on clients, with the goal to improve the lives of the customers and patients they serve. Researchers across the globe are making tremendous breakthroughs in gene and cell therapy and gene editing, resulting in advances in medicine, agriculture, energy and many other fields. We are honored to serve as the basis for many of these transformative products.

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