Amine A. Kamen
McGill University
Canada
Amine Kamen is Professor of Bioengineering at McGill University, and Canada Research Chair in Bioprocessing of Viral Vaccines. He is Researcher Emeritus of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) where he was employed until early 2014, as head of the Process Development section of the Human Health Therapeutics Portfolio. At NRC, he established one of the North America largest and most advanced governmental center for animal cell culture addressing process development and scale up of biologics. Also, he developed with his team and licensed to industry multiple technology platforms for efficient manufacturing of recombinant proteins and viral vectors and vaccines and led technology transfer to manufacturing sites for clinical evaluation and commercialization.
His current research activities focus on uncovering mechanisms associated with cell production of viral vectors and viral vaccines using functional genomics; cell and metabolic engineering; process analytical technologies; and data sciences for process digitalization to enable streamlining high yield biologics manufacturing processes. He acts as consultant for several national and international private and public organizations such as CEPI for vaccines development and pandemic preparedness
