Manufacturing & Analytical Characterization
Marianthi Ierapetritou, PhD (she/her/hers)
Bob and Jane Gore Centennial Chair
University of Delaware
Princeton, New Jersey
Ou Yang, PhD
Investigator
GSK
Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Tremendous growth has been witnessed in the biopharmaceutical market over the past few years, as well as the biological drug approvals by the EU and the US regulatory agencies. The implementation of the digital twin in biopharmaceutical manufacturing could help accelerate the process development and gain a thorough understanding of the process while reducing the efforts of performing time and resource-intensive experiments. Thus, with the development of simulation platforms and the fast-growing biological drugs market, biopharmaceutical companies have been working toward applying digital twin concepts during process development and commercial manufacturing. To assist with further advancement in the development of DT, this talk will provide an overview of the current state of critical components involved in a digital twin for biopharmaceutical manufacturing with specific emphasis on modeling tools.