PDA Pharmaceutical Microbiology Conference 2025

Symcel will exhibit and present at the 2025 PDA Pharmaceutical Microbiology Conference, taking place October 27–29 at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington, D.C.

The conference, this year themed “Microbial Resilience: Today’s Response, Tomorrow’s Plan,” has a jubilee marking two decades of advancing microbiological science and practice. The event brings together the global microbiology community from industry, academia, and regulatory agencies to explore the evolving landscape of pharmaceutical microbiology.

Visit us in booth 514 to learn how biocalorimetry technology from Symcel can help accelerate and safeguard your pharma sterility testing.

Three-Day Phenotypic Sterility Testing for CGT Manufacturing: Validation of the calScreener+™ Platform.

Wilhelm Paulander, Chief Clinical Development Officer at Symcel, will present a poster on Tuesday, 28 October, 10:15–11:00 and 15:30–16:15 in Independence Ballroom. The presentation will feature the latest validation results of the calScreener+ platform for sterility testing in cell and gene therapy manufacturing, including an introduction to the technology and methodology, and how it enables growth-based test results for a wide range of microorganisms, including challenging bacteria, in under three days.

Also be sure to attend:

Interlaboratory Evaluation of Eight Different Sterility Testing Methods Using a Standardized Sample Set

Monday, 27 October, 13:45–14:15, in Constitution Ballroom AB, NIST will present results from an interlaboratory study including the Symcel calScreener. In the study, 11 laboratories evaluated the performance of eight different test methods, including growth-based/metabolic systems (n=5; BacT/ALERT, BACTEC, Celsis, Symcel, and USP) and molecular platforms (n=3; MAT (pyrogens), RNAseq, and Sartorius qPCR). Each laboratory/system combination tested a set of 27 blinded samples that contained one of four compendial microbes (S. aureus, P. aeruginosa, C. albicans, and A. brasiliensis).

Learn more

Visit our applications page to learn more about  rapid sterility testing of cell and gene therapy products.

See full conference scheduele on the  event website.

Contact us to schedule a meeting during the conference.