InVitria Sponsors Cambridge Healthtech's Optimizing Cell Culture Development Conference

For Immediate Release
9/4/08

Fort Collins, CO-InVitria (www.InVitria.com), a leading global supplier of animal free products that enhance productivity, safety and time to market for companies in the biopharmaceutical, cell culture, life science research and diagnostics industry, announced its Sponsorship of Cambridge Healthtech Institute's 4th Annual "Optimizing Cell Culture Development" Conference on September 15-16 in Boston, Massachusetts. (http://www.healthtech.com/ocb/overview.aspx?c=562)

InVitria will be an exhibitor at the conference, which will feature notable speakers from research and development institutes and the biotech industry. The meeting sessions focus on cell line development, cell engineering, upstream processing and scale-up & manufacturing of products derived from cell culture.

"InVitria is very pleased to serve as one of the corporate sponsors for this event for the cell culture industry," said Scott Deeter, InVitria's president. "We feel this is a tremendous venue to build awareness of how InVitria's animal free products available for use in cell culture media help improve productivity, safety and time to market for our customers."

"InVitria's Cellastim and Lacromin not only replace bovine or human sources of albumin or transferrin, but they also provide improved productivity and better consistency," said Ray Tritch, InVitria's Account Manager - Eastern United States. "I am looking forward to sharing our successful results using these cell culture ingredients to optimize performance," Tritch said.

About InVitria (www.InVitria.com)
InVitria has developed animal free cell culture ingredients that enhance productivity, safety and time to market for companies in the biopharmaceutical, cell culture, life science research and diagnostics industry. InVitria's animal free product line includes:

• Cellastim - Cellastim is an albumin used to replace bovine albumin and human albumin as a cell culture ingredient and biopharmaceutical formulation excipient. Cellastim has been shown to improve mammalian cell culture productivity by up to 50% when compared with other forms of albumin. Cellastim also has been an effective component in stem cell media and primary cell media. (see www.Cellastim.com )
• Lacromin - Lacromin has been shown to replace bovine transferrin and human transferrin in cell culture media. In addition, Lacromin is a strong growth promotant as a cell culture ingredient in mammalian cell culture media. (see www.Lacromin.com )

• Lysobac - Lysobac is a bacterial cell lysis agent that is more efficient and more consistent compared to chicken lysozyme and provides higher protein yield compared with mechanical cell lysis. Lysobac is used in bacterial fermentation to improve recombinant protein yields. (see www.Lysobac.com )

For more information about the InVitria line of products, please e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 1-800-916-8311.