Agata Villiger-Oberbek

Commercial Cell Culture Development

Development of chemically defined media formulations: high throughput, automated media blending; DoE guided component optimization; powder dissolution and manufacturability.

Establishment of high throughput small scale cell culture platforms for commercial process development and bioreactor support. Development of chemically defined media.

Research and Teaching Assistant for Advanced Biotechnology Lab for Graduate Students; coresponsible for setting up and maintenance of a Biosafety level 2 facility.

Independent research project in the field of cancer neurobiology that initiated the group's studies toward the evaluation of several novel potential CK2 inhibitors as antitumor drugs against human gliomas.

Part of a team investigating the potential of the breast cancer drug Tamoxifen against human glioblastomas using enzymatic and chemosensitivity tests in vitro.

Design, development, and characterization of a method for the rapid generation of stable manufacturing CHO cell lines using HIV-derived lentiviral vectors in serum-free suspension cultures without the addition of antibiotics or metabolic inhibitors.

One-year research exchange student at the Department of Biological Sciences; Completed master level courses with Merit (Upper Second Class Honors)

Skeletal muscle regeneration