Process Development

A lab room that is empty except for tables. The process development laboratory helps researchers translate new discoveries in such areas as cancer, sickle cell disease, and lupus, type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases from the research laboratory bench to the patient's bedside by developing and refining techniques and procedures suitable for standardized manufacturing within the cGMP Therapeutics Cell Manufacturing facility. The lab's services include:

Process qualifications/validations
Culture/expansion methodology development
Manufacturing scale-up
Closed-system manufacturing development
Cell selection techniques
Media/growth factor optimization
Reagent/material qualifications
Vendor sourcing

Seattle Children’s complies with applicable federal and other civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude people or treat them differently based on race, color, religion (creed), sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin (ancestry), age, disability, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Financial assistance for medically necessary services is based on family income and hospital resources and is provided to children under age 21 whose primary residence is in Washington, Alaska, Montana or Idaho.