The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany is using a liquid-handling workstation from Tecan to create a fully automated chromatography platform for biopharmaceutical process development.
The Freedom Evo workstation is equipped with the Te-Chrom module and Atoll's 96-array Mediascout Robocolumn system.
Prof Jurgen Hubbuch of Karlsruhe's Biomolecular Separation Engineering group, which is utilising the Tecan workstation, said: 'We are using automation to help us learn as much as possible about processes before synthesis and scale-up, aiming to significantly enhance process performance and reduce production costs.
'One of the main tasks performed on our Freedom Evo workstations is assessing chromatographic separations of new biopharmaceuticals using Atoll's 96-array Mediascout Robocolumns.
'The combined Tecan/Atoll solution allows us to generate a large amount of data within a short timeframe and automation permits us, for the first time, to exploit design-of-experiment strategies, combining short experimental time and low material consumption.
'This not only cuts the development time for process optimisation significantly, but also gives a much better understanding of the process,' he added.
