Tofflon e-Workshop: Innovative Technologies for Vaccine Manufacturing

Zhichao Wang, Manager at Tofflon Smart Engineering Co., Ltd., holds a master's degree from Tianjin University. With expertise in designing and managing pharmaceutical projects, he understands biopharmaceutical processes, GMP, and building regulations. Wang established Tofflon's Modular Engineering Department and developed modular factory projects, optimizing processes and ensuring compliance. He excels in modular factory construction and is recognized for innovation and industry influence.

Mrs. Claire Chong holds a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Biotechnology from the University of Liverpool and has over eight years of experience in the bioprocessing industry, with expertise in both upstream and downstream drug substance production. As part of the technical application team, she supports customers in scale-up trials and downstream application studies, including tangential flow filtration (TFF), sterile and virus filtration, and chromatography solutions.

With 20-year experiences in processing liquid industrials, including Chemical, Food and Pharma industrials, including 7 years experiences on equipment management and project management at EU & US multinational companies, and acted as project manager at Engineering company GEA. For 10 years engage in proposal design and project executive of Bio-processing system at Tofflon, and plenty of project experiences on human vaccine, veterinary vaccine, monoclonal antibody, insulin, plasma fractionation, etc.

Edison Zhu, in 2021 obtained a master's degree in mechanical energy in France. After that, entered Tofflon filling department and began to provide filling line solutions for global pharmaceutical companies. Be responsible for providing complete solutions including freeze dryers, filling lines, and isolators for Europe and the United States.

Stefano Arletti is a consultant working in the design of Artificial Vision based quality controls for over 25 years. After graduating as Electronic Engineer in Italy in 1997 with a specialization in Computer science and Artificial Intelligence he started developing different automatic quality control systems based on camera vision for the beverage, food and pharmaceutical sectors. During the next 15 years he has focused more and more on the pharmaceutical sector, mainly the automatic visual inspection of parenteral products, developing entirely the vision and automation systems required into Automatic Inspection Machines installed and operating worldwide. The R&D work during this period has led to several new concepts patented under Italian and European Patent Offices.In 2012 joined Tofflon in Shanghai to support and lead the R&D team of
the Automatic Inspection Division and the construction andcommissioning of hundreds of systems worldwide. Always passionate about science &technology, their endless progress and their possibility to improve the performances and the manufacturing of products and finally the quality of everyone's life he's enjoying his work facing continuously new challenges, developing international cooperation and looking forward to provide better products and solutions for the final customers.

Tom Wang has served as a research assistant in University of Sheffield, focusing on high efficient self-assembled catalysts. He has developed good experimental techniques and has been passionate about solving challenging problems. Very early in his career Tom got involved in lyophilisation manufacturing, working as a field freeze-dryer engineer, where he built basic understandings about the lyophilisation process control and the lyo-machine maintenance. After joined Tofflon, Tom has been provided with more opportunities to conduct researches in lyophilisation field, making great progress in both theory and practice. Based on systematic training he has built expertise in both lyo-lab
techniques and lyophilisation related trouble-shooting. Now he has developed in-depth understanding in lyophilisation recipe optimisation using PAT (Process Analytical Technology) tools and has successfully delivered many rational solutions to some tough issues happened in manufacturing sites of our customers.