Scaling Microbiome Innovations: A Practical Guide to Process Development
Event Details
As part of the MAID programme, CPI will deliver a one‑day online training that covers the essential principles of process development for microbiome products. This session will allow the innovators to learn the essential process‑development principles that make technologies scalable, compliant, and ready for manufacturing.
Microbiome bioproducts represent the next frontier in addressing global health and sustainability challenges — from advanced cancer therapeutics to novel antimicrobials such as bacteriophages. Harnessing microbial systems is reshaping innovation not only in human medicine but also across agricultural biologicals, nutraceuticals, and veterinary applications.
Despite the sector’s immense potential, many companies encounter major translational and commercial hurdles. Promising research often fails to progress because early R&D decisions that do not account for scalability, manufacturability or GMP requirements. As a result, technologies that succeed at bench scale can become non‑translatable when they reach scale‑up or industrial manufacturing.
Why Attend?
- Learn how to avoid common design choices that block GMP translation.
- Understand regulatory expectations across multiple product types.
- Gain practical insights that save time, cost, and re‑engineering later.
- Build confidence in preparing a process/product for manufacturing.
- Ideal for about to spin off researchers, start-ups, SMEs and large companies engaged in microbiome innovation.
What the Training Covers
- Market Landscape & Regulatory requirements
Biotherapeutics, agritech, nutraceuticals, and formulated microbial products. - Designing for Manufacturability
Early decisions that enable or prevent scaling to GMP. - Process Development to Scale‑Up
Key parameters, challenges, and risk points from bench design to manufacturing feasibility. - Formulation & Product Stability
How formulation choices impact scalability, compliance, and product performance.
Places are limited to two individuals per company. Applicants are welcome from across the UK; priority will be given to companies with a presence in the Liverpool City Region.
The training is free to selected delegates and the cost is covered by MAID hub, supported by Liverpool City Region Combined Authority with Innovation Zone funding.