May
21
2025
Upcoming webinar

Enhancing manufacturing efficiency and quality through optimized lysis in plasmid DNA extraction

Wednesday 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 16:00 BST / 17:00 CEST
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Enhancing manufacturing efficiency and quality through optimized lysis in plasmid DNA extraction

In this webinar, we will present opportunities to optimize scale-up of the pDNA process for mRNA applications. During the critical cell lysis step, alkaline solutions and mechanical stress risk pDNA degradation, and highly viscous solutions may cause heterogeneities or require extensive mixing.

We will explain how to overcome these cell lysis challenges - maximizing product yield and quality while minimizing residual impurities, managing product/waste volumes, and ensuring process step robustness.

An automated in-line lysis system with a closed single-use loop will be explored, tailored for process development up to pilot-scale within a GMP environment. It features advanced mixing control, enabling automatic, continuous processing of up to 500 liters of resuspended cells per working day. We will present detailed in-line lysis results, including impact on pDNA quality.

  • Understand the challenges associated with alkaline lysis in pDNA extraction
  • Compare in-line lysis systems to traditional batch lysis methods
  • Explore at-line in-process control strategies tailored for managing complex crude lysis samples
Robin Pelizzari
Robin Pelizzari
Scientist pDNA small scale DSP Development at mRNA Center of Excellence at Sanofi Vaccine, Marcy-l’étoile, France

After graduating from a biotechnology engineering school, Robin Pelizzari started as a consultant for Sanofi for three years, where he was able to carry out a proof of concept for a project to optimize the chromatography step of the production process of a polyclonal antibody, thymoglobulin, an immunosuppressant used during transplantation. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, Sanofi launched the mRNA Center of Excellence (mRNA CoE) in 2021. Robin joined the CoE full-time in 2022 as a Scientist in the development of purification processes for plasmid DNA, used as a matrix for mRNA production. He participates in the development of the laboratory-scale process as well as its scale-up.

Matevž Korenč
Matevž Korenč
Project Manager at Bia Separations

After receiving a PhD in Biochemistry, Matevz Korenc continued as a team leader in Knauf insulation, where he managed the analytical support and material development in the EMEA region. Matevz joined Sartorius BIA Separations in 2021 as a project manager and two years later became fully active in in-line lysis machine development and GMP implementation. He is also an acrobatic basketball performer, never found in his comfort zone.