Internship Project

Dono Vivo LLC Internship Project

Goal: To create additional salable products from the now “waste” generated from the production of finished human biological products, for example plasma.

Needs/Considerations of projects:

• The intern working on this project should be comfortable handling human biologicals and preferably be vaccinated against Hepatitis B; a waiver is otherwise required.
• Understand what work has been done to date in the investigation into creating additional products to achieve the goal
• Research and document the process and limiting factors of extracting additional derivatives from whole blood collections
• Assess tools and or knowledge needed for success
• Propose and test solutions to create additional products given the limiting factors
• Work with the collection team to plan and execute the process(es) by which the extractions will be tested and refined
• Articulate the
  • Tools required
  • Labor required
  • Additional raw materials required
  • Volume produced by unit on average
  • Shelf life
  • Protocol for future lab members to use for production
• Work with leadership to ensure tools and skills are present
• Determine total cost 
  • If exclusively collected from the whole blood
  • If collected from the remnants of a plasma production
• Assess volume requirements to sustain Innovative Research total production needs by working with the customer service and purchasing teams
• Work to identify:
  • What % of total requirements can be achieved through internal processing
  • What should be planned and at what rate
  • How the product should be described
  • Any unique characteristics of the product to highlight
  • Any shipping restrictions (any international issues to consider)
  • Value of the collection
  • Delivery schedule for shipping/order fulfillment
  • Alternatively – Indicate why one or more of the derivatives cannot be produced with data to support
  • How the new derivative should be recognized and recorded in LIMS
  • Any marketing to be done to reinforce its availability
• Present at the end of your time your experience, what went well, what didn’t, and what you take away for the time with Innovative Research.