Phage Consultants returning to BIO International

Gdansk, Poland: – Specialist CRO Phage Consultants will once again bring its advanced bacteriophage expertise to the 2017 BIO International Convention, one of the biggest biotech industry events in the world.

PC will also be an exhibitor at the event with its stand at Booth 831 at the San Diego Convention Center, where CEO and founder, Dr. Marcin Los, will be on hand to talk to visitors.

This is a return to BIO International for Phage Consultants, which has attended the event every year since 2009 and was the first Polish company to an exhibitor during this event.

Anti-contaminaton solutions

The Phage Consultants stand will also show a wide range of its bacteriophage-based solutions for safeguarding sensitive biotech processes, biological reactions and fermentations, focusing in particular on keeping bacterial fermentations free from bacteriophage contamination.

Dr. Los will also use the congress’s ONE-on-ONE™ Partnering facility to explain more about Phage Consultants’ bacteriophage contamination and microbial detection tools and its troubleshooting and prevention capabilities.

10 years of phage leadership

“As we celebrate our 10th Anniversary, it feels great to be heading back to the BIO International Congress, which is one of the biggest events in the world for our industry,” commented Marcin Los.

“This events provides a great platform for sharing knowledge with fermentation managers and biological production teams to show how our expertise may help them in prevention and troubleshooting of phage contamination in bacterial-driven bioprocesses. We will also present our bacteriophage-based solutions which can be applied to decontaminate any industrial bioprocess and isolate it from a whole range of bacterial threats, with bacteriophage mixes that can be customized to any particular application. Last, but not least, we will present our readiness to help other companies to develop phage-based technologies, including those, which are important in animal and human disease prevention and curing,” added Dr. Los.

About Phage Consultants

Phage Consultants is a contract research and manufacturing organization that specializes in bacteriophage detection and characterization and production.

Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses that infect bacteria. First discovered around 1915, phages play an important role in viral biology, used to elucidate DNA viral reproduction through lytic and lysogenic cycles. They have been used for almost a century as alternatives to antibiotics and can have therapeutic effect against multi-drug-resistant strains of many bacteria.

Founded in Gdansk, Poland, in 2007, PC have become world leaders 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, along with bacterial, fungal and viral contaminations.

Phage Consultants are also specialists in the field of bacteriophage biology with specific expertise on phage activity in bioprocessing. Its 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.

About BIO 2017

The BIO International Convention (BIO 2017) brings together more than 16,000 biotechnology and pharma leaders from some 70 nations for one week of intensive networking to discover new opportunities and promising partnerships. This event covers a wide spectrum of life science and application areas including drug discovery, bio-manufacturing, genomics, biofuels, nanotechnology and cell therapy.

BIO 2017 is a four-day event, opening June 19 at the San Diego Convention Center in California. The accompanying exhibition will feature more than 1,800 companies from around the world. The event features 7 specialty Product Focus Zones, a series of Super Sessions exploring latest biotech ‘hot button’ issues and 18 education tracks featuring new topics: brain health, biotherapeutic delivery and clinical trials.

The Convention is hosted by the Maryland-based Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), which represents more than 1,100 biotechnology companies, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers and related organizations from the USA and some 30 other nations.

More information at: http://convention.bio.org/2017/