iBET organised a 2-day intensive training course on Design of Experiments (DoE). The main goal of this course was to provide our collaborators with sufficient knowledge and skills to run and execute DoE independently.
DoE is a useful tool that can significantly improve the quality and efficiency of our projects. It is a rational and cost-effective approach to practical experimentation enabling the assessment of several variables using the minimum of resources. Thus, DoE optimizes the scientific experimentation processes.
This training course, facilitated by Sartorius Stedim Biotech, was composed of lectures, demonstrations and computer exercises based on real life investigations. The software used was MODDE, a state-of-the-art DoE software package that is used by scientists, engineers and statisticians alike.
“Concepts and skills learned from this DoE training will help me on the development of new projects as a bioprocess engineer. Namely, the resulting equations and statistics from DoE will help on reducing process risk towards successful scale-up of animal cell-based vaccine production processes”, said Marcos Sousa, Bioprocess Engineer at Animal Cell Technology Unit (iBET).
The training course is part of iBET’s People Development programme, that invests in improving transversal skills of iBET collaborators, by organising a variety of training courses (such as communication and project management).
