Official Opening event of CD Laboratory, March 7, 2024, BOKU University Vienna

Our CD Laboratory was officially opened on March 7, 2024 with a ceremony at BOKU University hosted by the Department of Biotechnology in Muthgasse 18, Vienna. We thank Martin Gerzabek, President of the Christian Doppler Research Association and Christian Obinger, Vice Rector for Research and Innovation, for the opening words giving us background information on the Christian Doppler Research Association and its impact on the research at BOKU University. It was great pleasure to have Francesc Gòdia from Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona as a guest speaker who gave a great overview on gene therapy products and the current challenges in biomanufacturing and impressively described the needs and challenges of AAV production as starting point for our CD Laboratory. Thanks also to my colleagues Diethard Mattanovich and Gerald Striedner for hosting us at the Department of Biotechnology and for chairing the event.

v.l.n.r. Gerald Striedner,Head Institute of Bioprocess Sience and Engineering, Diethard Mattanovich, Head Department of Biotechnology,Francesc Godia, Guest Speaker, Astrid Dürauer, Head CD Laboratory, Till Wenger, Company Representative Boehringer Ingelheim, Christian Obinger, Vizerector Research & Innovation BOKU University, Martin Gerzabek, President of Christian Doppler Research Association

v.l.n.r. Reingard Grabherr, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Francois Du Plessis, Robin Nilsson, Udo Maier, Astrid Dürauer, Alexander Brix, Bernd Rehberger, Jan Schöning, Director Viral Therapeutics Center Boehringer-Ingelheim, Nicole Borth, Institute of Animal Cell Technology and Systems Biology Till Wenger, Company Representative Boehringer Ingelheim

v.l.n.r. Sabrina LEIGHEB,PhD candidate Offline Analytics, Georg SMESNIK, PhD candidate Genomic scale analysis,Maria TOTH, PhD candidate Stable Cell Lines, Marla RAHIMZADEH, PostDoc Downstream Processing & Analytics, Nikolaus VIRGOLINI, PostDoc Upstream Processing & Bioinformatics, Alessandra VERNASCA, Master student, Aida TLEUOVA, Technician, Martina WINTER, PhD candidate Process Modelling and Monitoring Downstream, Mahbod MOUSAVIAN, Technician