Free Webinar | Collaboration in the Face of a Pandemic: How Laboratory Integration and Partnerships Across Industry Leaders are Shaping the Response to COVID-19
October 6, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Now, more than ever, there is a growing need for integration and optimization in the laboratory. From the smallest to the widest perspective, from instrument to system, integration is valuable across the entire laboratory workflow at all scales. The value of rethinking traditional ways of working has been clearly highlighted this year by the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to this global and rapidly evolving public health crisis, tens of thousands of scientists are redeploying, laboratories are shifting their focus, and the broader scientific community is seeing unprecedented levels of collaboration and coordination. Novo Nordisk is currently using Thermo Scientific™ Watson LIMS™ software to support an externally sponsored research project collecting blood samples from volunteers to be tested for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies – and expecting around 50,000 samples to be analyzed by Novo Nordisk within the next 12-months. The SARS-CoV2 antibody analysis and laboratory set-up is completely independent from the daily regulated (GLP/GCP) analysis and laboratory work performed at Novo Nordisk. Watson LIMS software is providing the opportunity for Novo Nordisk to automate custom-build laboratory workflow processes, including sample accessioning and analysis processes. It is an example of how in today's fast-paced global landscape, the ability for a laboratory to find centralized, scalable ways of increasing productivity and efficiency is paramount.
Speakers:
Lee Tessler, PhD, Director, Product Management, Digital Science, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Berit Engberg, Senior Scientist, Non-Clinical and Clinical Assay Sciences, Novo Nordisk A/S
Klara Tølbøl Lauritsen, DVM, PhD, Senior Scientist, Non-Clinical and Clinical Assay Sciences, Novo Nordisk A/S
Speaker Biographies
Lee Tessler, PhD
Director, Product Management, Digital Science, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Lee Tessler is the Director of Product Management for Digital Science at Thermo Fisher Scientific. In his current role, he is helping bring forward digital innovations that accelerate science and improve laboratory productivity. Lee has been in technology development for 15 years and leads product management for SampleManager LIMS, Platform For Science, Watson LIMS, and Nautilus LIMS. He holds a Bachelors in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and a PhD in Computational Biology from Washington University in St. Louis.
Berit Engberg
Senior Scientist, Non-Clinical and Clinical Assay Sciences, Novo Nordisk A/S
Berit Engberg is educated as a Biomedical Laboratory Scientist from Clinical Biochemistry Department at Copenhagen Municipal Hospital. She has been working at Novo Nordisk A/S since 1987, starting in the Bioanalytical Laboratory, and has more than 20 years of experience with WatsonLIMS. In 2015 she returned from an eight years’ stay in Clinical Pharmacology to the Non-Clinical and Clinical Assay Sciences Department where she is working as Process Optimization Specialist and Project Manager within digitalization and other IT projects.
Klara Tølbøl Lauritsen, DVM, PhD
Senior Scientist, Non-Clinical and Clinical Assay Sciences, Novo Nordisk A/S
Klara Tølbøl Lauritsen (DVM, PhD) did her PhD at the University of Copenhagen in the field of Veterinary Immunology. After this she spent four years as Researcher within Veterinary Immunology with focus on Vaccinology, and then nine years as a Diagnostician as well as assay responsible Serologist in a serological laboratory - both positions were at The Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark. Since April 2018 she has been employed as Senior Scientist within Immunogenicity Assessment at Non-Clinical and Clinical Assay Sciences, Novo Nordisk A/S, Måløv, Denmark.
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