This is a DARE-NL workshop organized for and by ATMP operators, technicians and other experts handling, developing and/or producing ATMPs​. The workshop is open for DARE-NL members and partners who signed a CDA with DARE-NL.

The goal of the workshop is to exchange experiences, common practices and challenges, stimulate interaction and foster collaborations​.

A registration link will follow later, feel free to share with others for whom this might be of interest.

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Program:

09.00 – 09.30      Welcome with coffee & tea

Topic 1: Disinfection (of things brought into the cleanroom)

09.30 – 10.15      (Speaker tbc): Approach to clean materials to bring in the cleanroom

10.15 – 11.15      Break-out session: one center to present their cleaning techniques, followed by discussion of issues/challenges encountered and solutions by all centers

11.15 – 12.00      Each group to give short presentation on main take aways

12.00 – 12.30      Lunch

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Topic 2: Cell culture methods

12.30 – 12.45      Cor Berrevoets (EMC): Current manual culture and harvesting procedure

12.45 – 13.30     Maaike/Saskia (NKI): Transition to upscaling and automated process​ on the Xuri Cell Expansion System

Discussion with Tessa/Gaby (Sanquin)

13.30 – 14.00  UMCU/UMCG/LUMC (speaker tbc): Productions ​on the CliniMACS Prodigy

Discussion with UMCU/UMCG/LUMC (tbc)

14.00 – 14.30     Sanquin/AUMC/LUMC (speaker tbc): Productions on the Cocoon Platform

Discussion with Sanquin/AUMC/LUMC (tbc)

14.30 – 15.00     Break​

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Topic 3: QC analysis

15.00 – 16.00      Break-out session: one center to present their QC approach, followed by discussion of the types of QC assays performed in each center (and possibly issues & solutions)

16.00 – 16.45      Each group to give short presentation on main take aways

16.45 – 17.30      Drinks​

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Directions:

• In the virtual planner choose destination Auditorium (UMC Utrecht):
• Enter the UMC Utrecht via the main entrance;
• Turn right towards Radiology (Reception 19; see blue line on the map);
• When you pass the elevators, turn left and at the end of the corridor turn right into the Q building (route Q);
• Pass through the swinging doors and follow signs for Auditorium Q01