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To: nigel bates who wrote (107)	1/29/2001 9:42:21 PM
From: scaram(o)uche	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1022

Fun factoid..... Lonza derived from Celltech. Celltech once had a vaunted cell culture production facility, the existing Lonza plant. However, they started out "modest". It was once believed that you couldn't subject mammalian cells to sheer stress, so "air lift" fermentors became all the rage for a couple of years. The cells were gently kept in suspension with rising columns of air bubbles. This required a tall, skinny configuration for the "fermentor". At about this time, I traveled to Slough on business for Bayer (Cutter). I later visited for another reason and doing business for a biotech instead of a pharma -- and after Celltech had moved into nicer digs (not the Lonza production facility, but the research building) -- but that's another story. On this particular visit, Celltech was in their original, one story structure. The fermentor was about 1 1/2 stories tall. :-) They cut a hole in the roof.