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Scaling Down Bioreactor Process Development:
Comparison of Microbioreactor and Bench Scale Solutions.
Richard Lugg. Scientist I, MedImmune.European Laboratory Robotics Interest Group: High Throughput Bioprocess Development. 22 June 2011
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Challenges Facing the Industry
� We are in an industry constantly under pressure to deliver high quality products:-
� Aiming for high titre manufacturing processes.
� Through efficient use of resources in a timely manner.
� Scaled down bioreactors can be one method of achieving this goal.
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Typical Preclinical Project Plan.
VectorsParental cell lines
Clonal cell lines Phenotypic Cell Line Stability
Lead Clone Selected
SuspensionShake/T Flask50 Cell Lines
Static 24 Well Plate
200-300 Cell Lines
Bioreactor Platform Process
6-8 Cell Lines
Static 24 Well Plate
200-300 Cell Lines
SuspensionShake Flask
50 Cell Lines
Suspension Shake Flask
6-8 Cell Lines
Bioreactor Process Development
Bioreactor Process
Optimisation1 Cell Line
Multiple Bioreactors / Flasks
Process Lock
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Typical Preclinical Project Plan.
VectorsParental cell lines
Clonal cell lines Phenotypic Cell Line Stability
Lead Clone Selected
SuspensionShake/T Flask50 Cell Lines
Shaking plate(suspension)
24 Well Plate200-300 Cell Lines
Bioreactor Platform Process
6-8 Cell Lines
Shaking plate(suspension)
24 Well Plate200-300 Cell Lines
SuspensionShake Flask
50 Cell Lines
Suspension Shake Flask
6-8 Cell Lines
Bioreactor Process Development
Bioreactor Process
Optimisation1 Cell Line
Multiple Bioreactors / Flasks
Process Lock
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Screening for the Best Cell Lines.
� Early cell line screening in static/suspension plates.
� Best clones evaluated in shake flasks.
� Only the final few (<10) are taken forward to bioreactors.
� In an ideal world every cell line would be evaluated in a bioreactor.
100s
10s
<10
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Improving Quality of Data
Quality of Data
Ease of Handling
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New Technologies for Screening Cells
� New technologies can now offer better scale down models of our cell culture and bioreactor processes.
Scale-down Bioreactor System
�Micro-24™ - Pall
�SimCell™ – Seahorse Bioscience
�ambr™ - TAP Biosystems
Fed Shake Flask
Shaken 24 well Plates (semi-automated)*Static 96 well Plate
Possible new approachesOld technology
*Silk et al. Biotechnology Letters (2010)
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ambr™ - TAP Biosystems
� TAP Biosystems saw a need for a scaled down bioreactor.
� Approached MedImmune for our input in development of the system.
� Gave us scope to try another system that could be tailored to our requirements.
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ambr™ Background
� ambr™ microbioreactor.
� Automated.� Liquid handling deck.
� Cell culture manipulation.> Inoculation.> Feeding.> Sampling.
� Disposable stirred bioreactor vessels.
� 24 or 48 vessels can be run at same time.
� 7mL-15mL working volume.
� Bioreactor control. � pH.
� Temperature.
� Dissolved oxygen.
� Stirrer speed. TAP Biosystems.
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Liquid Handling Deck
� 2 Cell culture stations (24 vessel format).
� 12 vessels per culture station.
� 1 temperature setting for each cell culture station.
� 1 stirrer speed setting for each cell culture station.
� 2 deck for pipette tips.
� 4 decks for reagents and sampling lab ware.
Liquid handling arm Vessels (24 total)
Tips for feed addition / sampling
Inoculum, medium, feeds or
sample cups
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Disposable Vessel.
pH and O2sensors
Impeller
Open pipe sparger
Inlet / outlet for fluids
• Gamma irradiated for sterility.• Presens fluorescence sensors for pH and O2 sensors.• 3 Gasses can be added through the sparger. • Each vessel can have different pH, dissolved oxygen set points. • Separate feeding regimes.• Measurements taken every 90 seconds.
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� Considerations
�This technology requires a dedicated laminar airflow hood.
�Some infrastructure for gases.
�User handling required during run to replace tips, offline analysis etc.
�Flexibility.
�Simple to use.
Extra Considerations When Using ambr™
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=Does ?
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Vessel to Vessel Reproducibility.
� Batch over grow experiment ran using 24 vessels in batch with the same condition.
� Conditions.> pH, DO, temperature control.> No feed/glucose additions made.
� Off Line Analysis.> Cell counts were made using a Vi-CELL® (Beckman Coulter).> pH compared with using a blood gas analyser (Radiometer).
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ambr Batch Overgrow Data.
Key:
Ambr : Orange and Red
Mean in Black Solid
3SD from mean in Black Dotted
� Good consistency between vessels was observed.
� Dotted lines show 3 standard deviations (SD) from the mean of the data.
� Data falls within the dotted lines.
� No differences between culture stations.
� No corner affects.
� No back row Vs front row affects.
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0 2 4 6 8 10 12
Days
Via
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ls/m
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Viable cell profile.
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ambr Batch Over Grow Data.
� pH was controlled within range (pH SP ± 0.10).
� pCO2 as expected for batch data.
6.90
7.00
7.10
7.20
7.30
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
Days
pH
Low
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imit
p
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pper
Lim
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0 2 4 6 8 10 12
DayspC
O2
(mm
Hg)
Off line pH Profile. Off line pCO2 Profile.
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ambr Batch Over Grow Summary.
� Good vessel to vessel comparability.
� No positional effects.
� Front to back.
� Side to side.
� Culture station to culture station.
� pH well controlled for all vessels but it is slightly different in the microbioreactor in comparison to a benchtop bioreactor.
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pH control strategy.
6.60
6.80
7.00
7.20
7.40
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
pH
� In ambr pH is controlled by addition of carbon dioxide or a base solution as for a benchtop bioreactor.
� There are subtle differences in the control of pH:
� Base additions are discontinuous with ambr where a benchtop bioreactor base addition is continuous.
� You have to determine a target value for the base addition to bring the pH back up to (see example below).
Example:
Here the base additions are made on days 5 and 7 to target a pH of 6.90 (half way between the SP and lower limit)
pH SP
Upper Limit
Lower Limit
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Further Optimisation of Process.
� Gassing.
� Ballast flow rates can be optimised for process.
� Move to use same gases as benchtop bioreactor.
� Manual nature of the glucose measurements using the hand held meter became laborious.
� Implemented a YSI2700 with 24 sample turntable.
� pH control.
� pH profiles showed similar trends but base addition optimised toachieve similar profile to benchtop at the lower limit.
� Lower target base additions sets for fine tuning of pH the control.
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Clone Ranking Experiment
� 24 vessels used to examine the ranking of 6 different clones using fed batch method.
� Each clone was evaluated in duplicate.
� 2 different gas flow rates.
� Controls.> Stirrer speed increased during run based on O2 demand.> DO, temperature control kept constant.> pH with dead band used. > Bolus nutrient and glucose feed additions made.
� Off Line Analysis.> Cell counts were made using a Vi-CELL® (Beckman Coulter).> Offline pH was measured using a blood gas analyser (Radiometer).> A YSI2700 instrument was used to measure glucose and lactate.
� Data was compared to that generated in benchtop bioreactor (DASgip).
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ambr Vs Benchtop Bioreactor Data.
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Days
Via
ble
Cel
ls /
mL
(e6)
A1 A19 A7 A13 D1
6.60
6.65
6.70
6.75
6.80
6.85
6.90
6.95
7.00
7.05
7.10
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Days
pH
A1 A19 A7 A13 D1
pH SP
Upper limit
Lower limit
Viable Cell Number Profile. Off line pH Profile.
� Red line shows benchtop bioreactor data and blue line shows ambr data.
� 1 cell line shown as all clones were similar in their profiles.
� Viable cell count good reproducibility between ambr vessels difference towards end of run due to using different Vicell for ambr and benchtop bioreactor data.
� pH profile is very similar between ambr and benchtop bioreactor.
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ambr Vs Benchtop Bioreactor pCO 2 Profile.
0
2 0
4 0
6 0
8 0
1 0 0
1 2 0
1 4 0
0 2 4 6 8 1 0 1 2 1 4 1 6
D a y s
pCO
2
A 1 A 1 9 A 7 A 1 3 D 1
pCO
2
Shows similar drop in pCO2 between ambr and benchtop bioreactorover time course.
The separate pCO2 profiles in ambr due to the different ballast flow rates.
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Glucose and Lactate Profiles.
General trends in the ambr are comparable to the benchtop bioreactor.
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Days
Glu
cose
g/L
A1 A19 A7 A13 D1
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0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Days
Lact
ate
g/L
A1 A19 A7 A13 D1
Glucose Profiles. Lactate Profiles.
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Clone Ranking: Summary
� Generally cells grow better in the ambr than in benchtop bioreactors.
� Higher IVC and higher maximum viable cell density reached.
� Specific productivity (pg/cell/day) was similar between ambr and benchtop bioreactors.
� Titre is usually higher in the ambr compared with the bench top bioreactor vessels due to higher IVC.
� How does the clone ranking look?
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Clone Ranking on Titre.
1 2
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End
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itre
� Final harvest titre of top 2 cell lines ranked in the same order by ambr and benchtop bioreactor.� Titres > 3.5g/L.
� Final harvest titre of other 4 cell lines in a different order.� Small data set for these cell lines at benchtop scale makes it more difficult to
differentiate between the different clones.
� Need to run more benchtop bioreactors to verify ranking order.
1 2 3 4 5 6
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Clone Ranking Conclusions.
� Good vessel to vessel reproducibility in the ambr system.
� Very tight data set generated for the batch and fed batch ranking studies.
� Good process control in ambr comparable to benchtop systems.
� Allows for process optimisation (pH, DO, etc).
� Clone ranking in microbioreactor compared to benchtop bioreactor systems is ok.
� We need to build further data sets. > Parallel experiments using both benchtop bioreactors and ambr
needed.> Potential to push bioreactor screening earlier in our preclinical
project plan.
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Typical Preclinical Project Plan
VectorsParental cell lines
Clonal cell lines Phenotypic Cell Line Stability
Lead Clone Selected
SuspensionShake/T Flask50 Cell Lines
Shaking plate(suspension)
24 Well Plate200-300 Cell Lines
Bioreactor Platform Process
6-8 Cell Lines
Shaking plate(suspension)
24 Well Plate200-300 Cell Lines
SuspensionShake Flask
50 Cell Lines
Suspension Shake Flask
6-8 Cell Lines
Bioreactor Process Development
Bioreactor Process
Optimisation1 Cell Line
Multiple Bioreactors / Flasks
Process Lock
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Future Preclinical Project Plan?
VectorsParental cell lines
Clonal cell lines Phenotypic Cell Line Stability
Lead Clone Selected
Shaking plate(suspension)
24 Well Plate200-300 Cell Lines
Bioreactor Platform Process
6-8 Cell Lines
Shaking plate(suspension)
24 Well Plate200-300 Cell Lines
SuspensionShake Flask
50 Cell Lines
Suspension Shake Flask
6-8 Cell Lines
Bioreactor Process Development
Bioreactor Process
Optimisation1 Cell Line
Multiple Bioreactors / Flasks
Process Lock
Bioreactor Platform Process?
Bioreactor Platform Process?
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� Efficient use of resources is important.
� Microbioreactor systems as alternative to shake flasks/benchtop bioreactors.
� This technology can be applied earlier in our process than traditional bioreactors.
� Allowing for screening multiple cell lines in a manufacturing environment.
� Further process development and optimisation on a limited panel of cell lines for higher titre manufacturing process.
� Bioreactor quality data with shake flask resource.
� Better decision making during clone screening.
Summary
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Efficient use of resources.
6 Benchtop bioreactors. 24 microbioreactors.
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Acknowledgments
� ambr ™� Gareth Lewis, Alison Mason, Rahul Pradhan, Diane Hatton and Ray Field.
� Early Stage Bioreactor Team and Cell Sciences Group at MedImmune.
� From TAP Biosystems.> Richard Wales, Neil Bargh, Kenneth Lee, Dave Savage.
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