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Joe Cintavey is a Product Specialist with Gore & Associates with over 10 years of experience working in the biopharmaceutical and medical industry. While at Gore, he has been a product manager for their medical wire & cable products, gasketing products, and GORE® LYOGUARD® Trays. For the last several years, he has been working on a new product line for the company, focused on protecting bulk drug substance during cold chain handling. Prior to Gore, he worked as a connection systems product manager in the automotive industry. Joe holds a BSME & MBA from the University of Cincinnati.
A Challenge with Single-Use Technology: Protecting Bulk Drug Substance (DS) during cold chain handling, storage, and transport
The issue of single-use container durability during cold chain handling is well known in the biopharmaceutical market, particularly at freeze and transport temperatures down to -80°C. The extractables and leachables profile of materials commonly used in containers is another concern. This presentation will discuss novel technologies that address both the durability and purity challenge that biopharmaceutical manufacturers face.