Welcome to the home page for Bo Forsberg, Forsberg Biotech
My name is Bo Forsberg.
I provide expert advisory and lecturing in Downstream Processing for the Pharmaceutical industry worldwide and am part of networks in both Europe and Asia.
Challenges in manufacturing of bio-pharmaceutical drugs and trouble shooting in the same area is my drive and all kind of tasks appeal to me. Main focus for me is solving the challenges in large scale purification balancing purity, yield, CoG and legal demands as from FDA, EU, JP and others.
My main experience is in Chromatography and Tangential Flow Filtration development. All from designing, handling and understanding of principles and equipment since 1978.
I have performed high tech service for several prominent biotech companies as for instance GE Healthcare, Astra Zeneca, Repligen, Novo Nordisk, BioInvent, Bio-Works and AGC Biologics. My last position was Senior Technology Specialist (STS) and Subject Matter Expert (SME) at AGC Biologics as internal technical advisor all through the company worldwide.
At the 28th of June 2018 I ended my time at AGC Biologics and am now consultant and full time available for universities and industries worldwide. Please walk through my homepage to explore my abilities to enhance your business. The information you can find in here is just examples/appetizers and you are free to contact me for any type of activities you are interested in assistance for.
My drive in continuing consulting is to be part of processes that will make a great difference for people world wide. For example processes that help people to survive critical conditions as cancer and other. My intention with the consulting is to find partners for short or long term but not for full time for months or years. What I see most coming my direction is trouble shooting, process development, process enhancement, process and equipment validation/qualification, column packing performance and teaching, technical process adaption to commercial scale, equipment setup, design tailor made for the processes and adaptation to GMP, risk assessment, teaching in DSP...
What I look for as future collaborations are positions of hybrid or from home with clients that need temporary or long time support. I will take on consultancy and teaching roles for technical support and guidance in how and why to make progress both technically and based on covering demands from ICH and GMP. I also perform pre inspections, technical problem solving and root cause analysis. Some of these will require my precense on site. My role will always be providing consultancy from my own company based in south Sweden and this will off course possibly result in occasional travels planned for or ad hoc needs to clients or collaborators to clients.
Common tasks have been:
- Trouble shooting on site or frome home in DSP (Downstream processing) all cathegories
- Risk assessments with FMEA-tools, both creation and mitigation
- Industry scale column packing collaboration in-between resin vendors, column vendors and manufacturing organizations
- Mentor in-between Inventor organizations and CMO (Contract Manufacturing Organizations) for best productivity, process safety and fast reach to market, i.e. saving time and money especially for protection of Inventors
- Guidance for start up companies in how to solve issues and understand technical issues in development scale and challenges/impossibilities in scaling up (maybe the most common and expensive challenge in DSP)
- Cost of goods calculations for small and large organizations
- Teaching in all DSP activities on site or from home
- Creation of process handbooks for specific task in DSP in report format (have been part of writing handbooks for Pharmacia Biotech, now Cytiva)
- And much more...
I also collaborate with consultancy experts in USP (Upstream Processing) and can therefor through my network provide coverage in the full process development.
External Role: Module Leader and Honorary Lecturer at Department of Biotechnical Engineering at University College, London, UCL.
- I yearly lecture in Chromatography within the MBI Modular Training for Bioprocess Industries at the Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering at University College, London, UCL.
More information about me and my business opportunities can be found further into this home page by clicking on pages above or on Facebook and on LinkedIn.