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Focusing on industrial scale bioprocesses at BioProScale Symposium Berlin
Gdansk, Poland: – Bacteriophage expert CRO Phage Consultants (PC) is returning to the specialist BioProScale Symposium in Berlin to show the relevance of its contamination prevention expertise to industrial scale fermentation and biotech processes.
PC is an exhibitor, from Booth A4 in front of the Symposium poster wall on the first floor of the Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus venue in central Berlin.
Combating bioprocess contaminations
The stand will display Phage Consultants’ various services for the prevention and removal of phage infections in biotechnological and biopharmaceutical processes. The displays will also highlight applications of its advanced bacteriophage-based tools, such as swab samples and prophage testing, to identify contaminations in biotech facilities and enable preventative troubleshooting.
Leading the Phage team at the event will be PC CEO and co-founder, Dr. Marcin Łoś, one of the world’s leading authorities on bacteriophage types and modalities.
Dr. Łoś commented: “This will be the third time we have appeared at the BioProScale Symposium, an event that focuses on questions that are at the core of our own activities in understanding the different ways in which fermentation bioprocesses become contaminated and how phages can both cause those problems but also help to combat them.”
About Phage Consultants
Phage Consultants is a contract research and manufacturing organization that specializes in bacteriophage detection, characterization and production, but also prevention and eradication from laboratories and production facilities.
Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses that infect bacteria. First discovered around 1915, phages are the most numerous organisms in the biosphere and played an important role in understanding fundamental molecular biology for example horizontal gene transfer. Bacteriophages have different possible life cycles – lytic and lysogenic cycles – along with physical environment. In biotechnology, their activity can be devastating when bacterial cultures get infected. They can cause long-lasting recurrent infections which prevent successful production and in the past some facilities have been forced to close down due to their activities.
Founded in Gdansk, Poland, in 2007, PC has become a world leader in using the power of bacteriophage technology in bioprocess infection and contamination control and assisting companies whose production is based on microbial activities in preventing bacteriophage contamination.
Phage Consultants is also a team specialist in the field of bacteriophage biology with specific expertise in phage activity in bioprocesses. The team provides unique assistance to pharmaceutical and biotech companies, offering a range of services from personal training to consulting and process optimization in phage growth limitation. The company also advises and assists clients in the development of new production facilities.
Further information at: http://www.phageconsultants.com
About BioProScale Symposium 2026
The BioProScale Symposium was founded in 2009 as a joint project of the Technical University Berlin Department of Bioprocess Engineering and the Berlin Institute for Industrial Fermentation and Biotechnology (IfGB). The symposium provides a biennial platform for technical and scientific discussion on challenges of scaling-up biotech processes from laboratory to industrial production.
The 9th BioProScale Symposium is a three-day event opening April 20, 2026, at the Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus in central Berlin.
Under the 2026 theme of ‘Scaling Down and Up of Bioprocesses: Process Heterogeneities, Robustness, and Analytics’, the meeting will consider such topics as:
- Bioprocess Scale Down Models for Heterogeneities
- Process-Driven Cell Performance
- Integrated Bioprocesses
- Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) and FAIR Data Management
The event is organized by IfGB with further information at: https://biotechnologie.ifgb.de/bioproscale2026
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Phage Consultants CEO Dr. Marcin Łoś.
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