Table 1.

Past public conferences on NGS and other advanced technologies for virus detection.

•July, 2009: PDA Cell Substrate Workshop. Discussed broad virus detection technologies. Conference Proceedings in PDA J Pharm Sci and Tech, 2010; PDA Technical Report on Emerging Methods for Virus Detection (71) 2015

•May, 2011: IABS: Adventitious Agents, New Technologies and Risk Assessment. Conference Summary in Biologicals, 2011

•November 2011: PDA/FDA Adventitious Agents and Novel Cell Substrates: Emerging Technologies and New challenges. Discussed applications and identified knowledge and technical gaps that needed to be address for further development and applications. Conference Proceedings in PDA Journal, 2012

•September 19, 2012: FDA VRBPAC discussions on use of human tumor cell lines and potential use of advanced virus detection technologies Transcript pdf available: www.fda.gov

•May, 2013: WHO Cell Substrate Study Group (Beijing). Discussed DNA based detection of adventitious agents in cell substrates

•November 2013: PDA/FDA Advanced Technologies for Virus Detection in the Evaluation of Biologicals: Applications and Challenges. Identified challenges and priority areas to be addressed for applications to biological products. Conference Proceedings in PDA Journal, 2014