Berkeley Lights to Showcase its Optofluidic Discovery Technology at 2022 Festival of Biologics Conference


EMERYVILLE, Calif., March 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Berkeley Lights, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLI), a leader in digital cell biology, today announced its participation at the upcoming Festival of Biologics meeting, being held from March 9-11, 2022, at the Marriott Marquis San Diego. The Festival of Biologics brings together pharma, biotech and academic and research institutes, as well as their partners across the value chain in the areas of antibodies, immunotherapy and biosimilars.

Berkeley Lights will showcase the Berkeley Lights Platform and single B-cell antibody discovery workflow at booth #39. Meeting participants who visit the Berkeley Lights booth can receive a demonstration of the Beacon system performing the Opto™ Plasma B Discovery workflow as well as hear about Opto™ Cell Line Development workflow.

Presentation
Mr. Kent Lee, antibody discovery product manager at Berkeley Lights, will deliver a presentation entitled “Leave No Hit Behind: Accelerating Lead Molecule Discovery Against Difficult Targets,” on Thursday, March 10 from 12:40 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. PT. In this presentation, Lee will discuss how the Berkeley Lights’ Beacon Optofluidic system is used to rapidly discover antibodies against challenging targets, such as GPCRs, versus traditional hybridoma methods.

About Berkeley Lights
Berkeley Lights is a leading digital cell biology company focused on enabling and accelerating the rapid development and commercialization of biotherapeutics and other cell-based products for our customers. The Berkeley Lights Platform captures deep phenotypic, functional and genotypic information for thousands of single cells in parallel and can also deliver the live biology customers desire in the form of the best cells. Our platform is a fully integrated, end-to-end solution, comprising proprietary consumables, including our OptoSelect™ chips and reagent kits, advanced automation systems, and application software. We developed the Berkeley Lights Platform to provide the most advanced environment for rapid functional characterization of single cells at scale, the goal of which is to establish an industry standard for our customers throughout their cell-based product value chain.

Berkeley Lights’ Beacon® and Lightning™ systems and Culture Station™ instrument are FOR RESEARCH USE ONLY. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.

Forward-Looking Statements
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